[sldev] [VWR] openAL wind generator WIP

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Carsten Juttner wrote:
> Robin Cornelius wrote:
>> If any one has any ideas on completing the wind noise, from comments 
>> left on the openAL JIRA it appears it may not be too long before we 
>> can look at merging :-)
>
> Alright, took a look at it as promised, it does not work because the 
> wind buffers are never associated with the source (which produced an 
> error in the log, maybe your diff was not against the final version 
> you were using?) and also the position of the wind is set somewhere 
> far away from the listener (close to the origin) so once that position 
> is set up you never hear it.
>
> Another problem is that the wind generating code is using as input the 
> same buffer that it writes to which produces a surreal reverberating 
> sound.

It probably would be good to have optional wind sounds than the default 
that FMOD plays.  The constant noise gets irritating after awhile. It is 
the same noise. It never changes.

The wind is useful to tell when the avi is moving.  There are times it 
is hard to tell, and the wind noise makes it obvious.

Does Windlight generate wind sounds?  =)


>
> Thanks for your and Segs effort, it is great to finally have full open 
> source sound output. :)
>


Yes, now it would be great if OpenAL and other programs would work 
nicely with ALSA. They all treat sound like the older OSS.