Symphony Audio Engine

The Rubeus Engine's audio engine, named as 'Symphony' uses SFML's Audio components as its backend. Symphony's workflow is a hybrid of the OpenGL state machine workflow and SFML's sound buffer loading and cueing.

Usage in C++:

• Symphony manages two different types of audio tracks.
  • Sound tracks:
    • Used for loading short sounds like walking effects, or weapon action sound effects.
  • Music tracks:
    • Used for longer pieces of audio like ambient music and background music.
  • Each type of track lists are currently supporting 20 tracks each.
• The sound manager needs to know what is the minimum number of tracks you want to play your first piece of audio on. To add a music track, use RSymphony::addMusicTrack(int) to add the specified number of music tracks to use.
• Next, specify which track do you want to load your sound file to. A summary of steps so far are given below.

RSymphony * audio_manager = new RSymphony();
audio_manager->addMusicTrack(1);
audio_manager->addSoundTrack(1);
audio_manager->loadTrack(MUSIC_TRACK, TRACK_0, "Assets/bgmusic.wav", 20    , true);
//                       trackName  , track #, sound file path     , volume, set looping
audio_manager->loadTrack(SOUND_TRACK, TRACK_0, "Assets/footsteps.wav", 10);

• Use playTrack() to cue music

audio_manager->playTrack(MUSIC_TRACK, TRACK_0);
audio_manager->playTrack(SOUND_TRACK, TRACK_0);