I have been through the sound tutorial, and looked at the code in sample programs with sound, from what I can tell Panda must only support one type of sound file called- .ogg?
How does one go about converting sound files to this ogg? Why on earth can’t a person use other types of sound files? I have honestly never even heard of this .ogg sound file before, why not a normal sound file format that someone would be able create without getting more software?
I will go look this .ogg up and book mark it so I can download it tonight after midnight so I can start in with some sound.
I have built a cool little Sea-steroids (asteroids) game modding the sample game that came with Panda, it is a blast, I created an exe of the game and we now have it installed on a number of our computers for the kids to play. I uninstalled it as well to make sure that would work as too, everything seems to work awesome, I am a bit surprised that is the first executable program I have ever made.
Now that I have all the graphical portion of Sea-steroids done I wanted to add some sound for when the fish are blown apart and maybe a sound for the bullet initiation to make it a bit more interesting.
The asteroids was the first folder so I decided to read the code and look through everything and then thought I dive in by changing things a bit and see what all happens, after asteroids I will work my way down the list learning how everything works and eventually try to build something myself.
My next goal after sound would be a score keeper for fish blown up and then on to creating a way to move on to new levels when all fish are gone so that I can bring in more different types of fish higher levels more exotic fish and colors etc.
Can anyone give some guidance on sound, do I have to have this .ogg file or can I make something else work?
Oh yeahh almost forgot… When I was packaging the Sea-steroids I found that there a lot of options and things that were missing apparently, how do I access these functions? I figured out the Icon.ico, I figured out the installation.bmp and the license.txt, all of that was simple, but there a lot of other things that I have no idea how to access them or what command or files to use to set them with values etc. This is apparently not needed to get my programs to install and run, but it would be nice to have the ability to make use of them if I want or need to in the future.