Fmod, in Max.

Ok, I have a working Fmod Module for blitzmax not all commands are done yet. The question I have is about its Liscence, ie if anyone uses this module I think that they will need there own liscence for it if they use it for commercial, shareware or what ever other liscences it has.
What I want to know am I actually allow to release this, I know there is a Purebasic wrapper available on the FMOD website, so I think it would be fine, but if anyone knows for sure I would like to know.

This sounds very cool drago. What advantages are there over current bmax sound, and is it cross platform?

Fmod, works on Window, linux, and Mac, but Since I only have access to windows, and Linux someone else will have to make sure that the mac one will work. :)

For what it supports, well 3d sound, sample editing. loads of music and Sample formats.


to find out the most info about it, go visit the website www.fmod.org

I'm looking forward to this, I miss being able to use MOD music already :) From what I understand of the licensing, you'd need to pay $3500 for a single fully-commercial game (if you release it on all 3 BlitzMax platforms), but it's still free as long as what you use it for is free.

The shareware license fee is not unreasonable however... altho more than 1 platform... I don't know how that would work... but it's definately worth looking into. I might spearhead a freemusic module in the future to work alongside freesound... but it all depends if I have time/somebody beats me to it =]

@Drago, are you still working on this?

do you guys know that FMOD has expensive licenses, even for shareware products, right? For an indie developer, it's basically $100 for each title and each platform you want to release for.

I prefer OpenAL, as it is totally free.

It's fine if you are doing freeware though. :D

I don't know why module playback is not an out-of-the-box feature. Blitz BASIC 2 could play mods so it's not like Mark doesn't know to do this stuff.

I've been looking at the DUMB docs this evening and I guess its output could be directed into a TAudioSample for playback - but it would be a stretch for me to wrap the library (ultra-lite C coder, you see) and it's not like I can do a trial run with the demo. Until the 3D module comes along and blows our socks off I can't help but see (the entirely free) AllegroGL as the more holistic environment. Man, I'm a tightwad.

I was going to use it for some demo-like stuff, which would be freeware ofcause since its just graphical demonstrations of effects. And I was looking for something that would be easy to get the .mod .it .xm etc. tunes going with me having to dig too deep into something as I would like to focus on the effect coding part of things.

I will take a look at both openAL and DUMB, but I am already thinking that those require a good deal of work to be useful.