This chapter has three example projects associated with it and they are described in the following sections. The sound, audio, and video clips used in these projects were sourced from a couple of great websites that offer a vast variety of stock media for free! Links to these websites are provided here:
http://www.royalty-free-music-room.com
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com
This project demonstrates use of the s3eAudio API and the SoundEngine module (which in turn makes use of s3eSound).
On running the example you'll be presented with three clickable buttons that have been implemented using the GUI module introduced in the last chapter. The first button toggles an MP3 track on and off using s3eAudio, while the other two start some sound effects using SoundEngine.
This is another simple example showing how to use the s3eVideo API to start and stop a video clip. A button at the bottom of the screen will start and stop a video clip, which is played in a continuous loop.
Finally we come to the Skiing project once again and it will come as no surprise that it has been enhanced by the addition of some music and sound effects.
The main menu now plays an MP3 audio track while waiting for the player to press a button. On pressing a button, a confirmation sound effect is played.
In the game itself, several sounds have been added. A swooshing sound is produced, by using a looping sample, whenever the skier moves and the pitch of this sample is decreased as the player turns, to make things sound a little more dynamic.
Other sounds that have been added include a selection of celebratory sounds for when the player passes through a gate, a painful-sounding yell for when the player collides with an obstacle, and a springy sound that gets played when the player collides with a flag pole and causes it to wobble.