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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on October 16, 2005, 06:44:07 pm

Title: A stunning discovery
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 16, 2005, 06:44:07 pm

So, I'm poking around today in the source and I see these two files named "RBAudio.h" and "RBAudio.cpp"

Me: :wtf:

So I open them and find out that Fs2_open seems to have an entire audio CD-playing API.

700 lines of code that've been completely forgotten by pretty much everyone. :lol:

A few of the functions are empty, based on the comments it looks like it was removed before the source was released.

Title: A stunning discovery
Post by: Gregster2k on October 16, 2005, 07:36:09 pm

I can see why we forgot about it...I personally see no use for it...better to have a Winampish jukebox built into the game for MP3s than a CD player methinks, but I suppose there might be some disk overhead to be saved by playing the FS2 soundtrack off of redbook tracks burnt to a CD rather than using the VP music files...but what's the point?

Title: A stunning discovery
Post by: mikhael on October 16, 2005, 08:36:34 pm

That functionality is better handled by a standard toolset anyway. It would be trivial (like less than 50 lines of code total) to implement a fairly feature complete CD Player interface under SDL. I can't imagine its any more difficult directly in DirectX. I can see why it was removed.

Title: A stunning discovery
Post by: Nuke on October 17, 2005, 12:28:07 am

its probibly left over from descent 2. i bet you compair it with the d2 code its exactly the same.

Title: A stunning discovery
Post by: Galemp on October 17, 2005, 04:12:22 pm

Dynamic music is better, though I can see us wanting this for, say, the Star Wars mod.