Making Descent support CD audio?

Mikael · Post by **Mikael** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:13 am

I just thought of a great addition to Descent 1: CD audio! Then we could just put the D1 PSX tracks on a CD and have them play in-game. What do you think? Would this be hard to accomplish? Since D2 supports CD audio, wouldn't it be possible to reuse some/all of that code?

I'm not good enough at programming to pull this off, but I'm sure we have someone here that could do it!

Floyd · Post by **Floyd** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:17 am

put ANY audio cd into a free drive which is connected to the sound card and hit the "play" button on the drive. problem solved.

Mikael · Post by **Mikael** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:27 am

Yeah, yeah, I know. I just wanted the game to change tracks when you got to new levels, went to the menu, and what not. Like D2 does. It feels less ghetto...

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 6:58 am

If I'm not mistaken, D2 doesn't really do that (except for the main menu I think)... I recall it cycling through the tracks.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:34 am

Both... each level starts with a certain track, and then they cycle sequentially.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:43 pm

Sorry, someone beat you to it. Nab the 1.42 OpenGL build of D1x off of Planet Descent under the D1 files section. Be sure and run the file with the -help command line option to see the commands available to you to stick into your d1x.ini.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:49 pm

Descent 2 basically had a series of level CD tracks. It would start on Track 3, for example. When Track 3 ended, it would automatically advance to Track 4 and so on. When you started the next level, it incremented the starting track to the next one, in this case Track 4, and the process repeats.

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:50 pm

Simple solution.

Descent 2 MP3 player. Like UT2004.