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New Musical Objects
News posted 5th August, 2003 by Shen  
OK, we have some new musical extensions ready all of a sudden. Use them and see your game in a new light, or something.

DirectSound by Tigerworks has 128 channels and infinite sample mixing as well as other groovy features in 25k: Forum thread

ModFusion by TwiTerror allows the playback of MOD, IT, S3M, XM, WSF, WTF, and WGM in only 128k runtime: Syntesis

These are both MMF 1.5 extensions. Go get them. Use them wisely.




Posted by Shen 5th August, 2003

I had to edit that THREE TIMES before I got it right. Graagh.
 
Posted by Pkeod 5th August, 2003

lol WTF
 
Posted by Rycon 5th August, 2003

Both of these look like great extensions, but nither of them support Mp3, and most songs are in mp3. I am not flaming or saying anything bad, just wish they had mp3.
 
Posted by Ian M. Phoenix 5th August, 2003

Is WTF a real file type? XD
 
Posted by Tigerworks 5th August, 2003

Correction: DirectSound is NOT a music extension and not intended for playing music or any compressed formats, only small WAV sound effects for your games. Imagine playing MP3 for every sound effect in your game, that would be really slow decompressing every sound!
 
Posted by Max 5th August, 2003

Did anybody ever released an extension which allow to play MP3s apart from the DMC2 object? I really didn't followed the extension development scene since quite a long while so I'm not sure about that.
 
Posted by Tigerworks 5th August, 2003

DirectShow can play MP3s, it's free to use, no DLLs, no commercial licence. Plays along fine with other audio extensions like DirectSound.
 
Posted by Josh Whelchel 6th August, 2003

WTF is a very real module type. http://wsf.syntesis.ath.cx
 
Posted by Josh Whelchel 6th August, 2003

MP3 support will be in ModFX 3 :p
 
Posted by ncsoftware 6th August, 2003

How about adding some ogg support too, next to MP3. Ogg is just as good, but free to use even in commercial stuff!
 
Posted by Jenswa 6th August, 2003

Hmm nice, it's a pitty it isn't for TGF, but i guess at some point i have to leave TGF and start looking for something better, what o what can it be? But what about compression vs size of the sounds, that would make a nice topic in the forums.
 
Posted by Josh Whelchel 7th August, 2003

OGG support is also in ModFX 3, did you not pay attention to modfx2 or something you foul demon. OGG is already in ModFX2, although some other parts of that plugin are buggy.
 


 
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