Q2A3D is an openAL (open Audio
Layer) sound implimentation for Quake2 based engines.
However it is also intended to be as portable as possible,
automating many comman audio tasks and providing seemless
integratiion into any game.
OpenAL is an LGPL audio platform
compatible with windows/linux/mac which provides access
advanced audio functions such as multi speaker systems,
EAX extensions and much more. It is hardware independant
and similar in implimetation to the OpenGL graphics
library. You can find out more on creatives developer
site @ developer.creative.com.
In contrast, Q2A3D is designed
to be similar in implimentation to Q2's ref_soft or
ref_gl graphics engines. providing a simple inteface
for the game engine to issue sounds which are then controled
by the q2a3d audio engine. Below you will find code
& snippets to impliment this audio engine into the
Q2E (Q2Max based?) game engines. This tutorial is now somewhat out of date. especially since the Q2E developers have now integrated the q2a3d source directly into their engine, it remain here for now for archival purposes and to ease the documentation when the new shiney version with VOIP eventually gets implimented
