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Steam Audio Open Source Release (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Fryboyter@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[-] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut 58 points 10 months ago

For others who wonder the same: the announcement is from the 19th this month and they licensed it under Apache 2.0.
This is really cool to see! I hope they are testing the waters for releasing the source engine as free software. I remember Gabe Newell stating that they would consider it if people were interested. Doesn't have to mean anything, but a woman can dream~

[-] excitingburp@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

The biggest hurdle to open sourcing proprietary stuff is often 3rd party code, but we can indeed hope.

[-] _Atlas_@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I don't get it. Is it just audio tweaking tools that developers can use, that they have now made open source?

[-] Fryboyter@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 10 months ago

It's more than just a simple tool with which you can tweak audio. Some features are listed at https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/. The tool is mainly intended for the development of games (also under Linux).

And yes, it's basically just about the fact that Steam Audio is now completely open source.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 7 points 10 months ago

Is this for streaming video game soundtracks or ??

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

It's a tool for easily creating realistic audio in games. Basically you can give it a 3d environment, and it can bake sound propagation information so that sounds have realistic reverb and filters. They've used it for some of their recent games (most notably Half-Life: Alyx).

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

God the sound design in Alyx was insanely good. I felt like I was legitimately in City 17 and it was terrifying. It was a really good showcase of what Steam Audio can do.

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