OpenAL Lesson 2: Looping and Fade-away

OpenAL Lesson 2: Looping and Fade-away
Author:: Jesse Maurais
Description: Movement of an emiting source

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Fadeaway suggestion:

I'm new to OpenAL, but I came across a guide which has all the parameters you can use with alSourcei and found one that would be great for fadeaway. Here's a sample function:

alSourcePlay(source[0]);
_sleep(5000);
for (ALfloat n = 1.0; n > 0.0; n-=.01)
  {
     alSourcef(source[0],AL_GAIN,n);
     _sleep(10);
  }
alSourceStop(source[0]);

If you run this snipet of code, the music will play for 5 seconds and then fade out over 1 full second. Change the _sleep command or the step value for n to alter the time it takes for the sound to fade.

Thanks for giving me somewhere to start and I hope you found this suggestion useful!