resonance-audio VS steam-audio

That's good, since similar project from [1] Google as often happens is dead.

[1] https://github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio

For improved audio in unity check out these popular solutions: https://www.fmod.com/unity https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/acoustics/what-is-acoustics https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/ https://resonance-audio.github.io/resonance-audio/

>Source 2 replaces everything with in-house developed alternatives

Do you have a link for this? I know the sound system is theirs as they open sourced it.[0] What about physics?

Also, I agree that they should open source Source 2 if possible. They gain almost nothing by having it closed source and gain a lot by giving developers a better deal than Unreal because more money saved on the engine means either cheaper or better/long games. (At least assuming both engines are equivalent which they are not, but in theory.) Meanwhile Epic is using Unreal as a carrot for developers to release their games in Epic Store.[1]

[0] https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24258723/epic-games-store...

It's funny to see this now because I've been for a couple weeks looking into audio spacialization. After a lot of research and even trying to write my own spatializer plugin, I found that Game Engines have probably the most complete toolset to do this task. (Specifically I'm using Godot with https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/).

Steam audio is pretty awesome in that regards because it supports HRTF and all the physical based goodies like occlusion/reflection and sound propagation. So you can get really really immersive spatial audio.

The only downside with this solution is that you can't do offline rendering. So my question is:

can Audiocube do offline rendering? seems like it would be one killer feature for my use case.

> The result is that games today have worse spatial audio than games that came out 20 years ago

This was already solved 7 years ago, but few games actually make use of it: https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/

If you need for game reasons, I would advise to inspect the code of OpenAL soft which has lots of interesting concepts implemented and also to read the documentation on Steam Audio - this one is also open source too, so you can take a look on valve's implementation here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-audio

I would at least take a look on how HRTF works as you need to account how humans experience sounds too when simulating audio things.

Here's an absolute nightmare example file tree, from the newly open-sourced Valve's audio engine called Steam Audio:

Interestingly, the repo's readme says it works on Win/Mac/Linux, Android and iOS. Wonder if they had builds going but never released them to others.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-audio

CS2 sounds cool. It uses Steam Audio.