Hey folks,

I’m proud to announce the first release of the Lite-C FMOD wrapper plugin DLL (v 0.1) for the announced A7 game engine. It is a wrapper for the FMOD 3.75 DLL audio engine (FMOD is a trademark of Fireflight Technologies, Inc.).



What is FMOD / the Lite-C wrapper plugin DLL?

FMOD is a cross-platform audio engine, which makes it easy for you to use current audio technologies in your software. No other audio engine offers such a rich and up-to-date platform support. FMOD isn't only available for the Windows 32 bit system, but also for 11 other systems, among them e.g. Windows 64bit (AMD64), Linux, Macintosh and all game consoles available on the market. FMOD is being and was used by over one hundred commercial games, for example in "World of Warcraft" or "Flat Out". With the Lite-C FMOD wrapper plugin DLL for A7 / Lite-C, all of those features will be enabled for you – no matter which edition of the A7 engine you own or if you „just“ use the free Lite-C distribution.

AND THE BEST OF ALL: IT'S FREE!

current features (in short)

• different drivers, software driver faster than hardware driver!
  
• samples
  
• HD / disc / internet streams (adjustable buffering, file tags, file length (ms/secs/bytes), net streaming / buffering / via proxy, substreams / multiple streams / samples banks)
  
• channel operations and analysis (play, pause, stop, frequency; volume, panning; priorities; seeking; subchannels; runtime volume analysis)
  
• audio CD (seeking, track count, current track; selectable drive; faster than conventional mediaplayer - no polling!)
  
• Spectral analysis (FFT)

The distribution contains the binaries (the DLL and the appropriate Lite-C header file), documentation (german/english) and a huge collection of sample files, ready to use (EXE files will be added as soon as A7 is being released). The wrapper DLL and its additional contents are freeware, though, you have to agree to the license terms of the FMOD engine as well (see License Agreement).

More information, the download files, FAQ and knowledge base, donate information and License Agreement are to be found on my website: http://www.christian-behrenberg.de

I would be happy for some comments, critics; feel free to make own samples, suggestions, bug reports and so on. There are still some things to do, have a look into the manual to see what features are missing. I will make another thread, when a new version will come out. Bugfixes for and comments on version 0.1 will be announced here.

[EDIT] Note: Maybe you need to empty the cache if you have previously visited my site. Just in the case you have some problems with some images or so.

Cheers and have a good day,
Christian

ya finally it's out and i'm impressed by your work

too sad i won't update to A7 Pro cause i would love using it in Angelas World 2.

Also VERY nice to release it for free!

Sounds great, looks good

I will download and try it it

Thanks

very nice heelx! if you dont mind ill write about it in my blog? this is very nice for freeware and pro teams since the fmod license for commercial games costs $6000 as far as i know. for freeware games its free.

I would appreciate that.

thanks christian nice contribution

Sounds greate

This is a great contribution, thanks!

Thank you for your work!

Thanks for all those... "thanks!"

I would like to see (or better: hear) my DLL in action. I use it in my project, but if you use it, it would be great if you tell me so. I plan to do the following things for the 0.2 release:

• some unimplemented stream functions (setLoopPoints, net_getBufferProps,...)
• all FX functions
• all reverb functions
• I'll try to connect the available FMOD callbacks with user customized callbacks
• fixing some things in the manual
• I will test the recording functions
• if the callbacks gonna work, I will implement all *_playEx functions
• sample loop points

The 3D sound is still pending, but the effects are more important for me, so I will implement them first.