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VRHOTWIRES
DIRECTIONAL SOUND TOOL

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version 2.0

Directional Sound
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Directional sound is for panoramas, so a sound gets louder when you pan towards it. 

As well the right left audio 'pan' is changed as you pan.

Ok let's add the sound track in the movie 'glass.mov' to the vr, and make it directional.
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Remember, the vrhotwires directional sound tool uses calls that require at least qt5.

 

Tutorial 1: 1 Directionals Sound

Steps to make the movie 1dirsnd.mov (by Anders Jiras) 

First download the pano andersPlane.mov

now a sound track : drums.mov

-First open vrhtowires.
-drag the vr movie called  andersPlane.mov ' onto the open movie  window.
-now under the 'tools' menu choose directional sound.
-when the tool opens, you'll notice that when you pan, the numbers change in the ‘Play loudest when panned to’ field...showing you your current pan angle as a numerical value. 
-drag your sound track, drums.mov onto the qtvr.
-pan the vr to where you want the sound to eminate from.
-(adjust the slider for the width of the cone of sound if you want...)
-set minimum when panned away if you want. Try zero to really get a feel for the directional on/off.

-press APPLY

It should be done. When you pan the movie away you should hear the directional sound.

If something doesn't work, check the  1dirsnd.mov   movie and compare...

More than one directional sound in the pano will work simply ... 

as a second turial  we'll make a 4 dir snd movie like this :

If you're interested in the script take a look by pressing command r. (read it!)




THIS TOOL REQUIRES QUICKTIME 5 !!!!!

This is the c code it is based on .

Note tim's comments.

the vol angle is the width of the cone

and kNoVolume is the min here.

thePan is the loudest location

//////////
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// VRMoov_SetOneBalanceAndVolume
// Set the balance and volume attenuation of an embedded QuickTime movie.
//
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void VRMoov_SetOneBalanceAndVolume (Movie theMovie, MediaHandler theMediaHandler, float thePan, float theTilt, float theMoviePan, float theVolAngle)
{
#pragma unused(theTilt)

short myValue;
float myPanDelta;
float myCosDelta; // cosine of pan angle delta from movie center
float myCosLimit; // cosine of attenuation cone limit angle

myPanDelta = thePan - theMoviePan;

// ***set the balance
myValue = kQTMaxSoundVolume * sin(myPanDelta);
MediaSetSoundBalance(theMediaHandler, myValue);

// ***set the volume
myCosDelta = cos(myPanDelta);
myCosLimit = cos(theVolAngle);

if (myCosDelta >= myCosLimit)
// inside cone of attenuation, volume scales from 1.0 (at center) to 0.0 (at cone edge)
myValue = kQTMaxSoundVolume * ((myCosDelta - myCosLimit) / (1 - myCosLimit));
else
// outside cone of attenuation, volume is 0.0;
myValue = kNoVolume;

if (myValue != GetMovieVolume(theMovie))
SetMovieVolume(theMovie, myValue);
}
If you look at the vrnacular script of the directional sound you’ll see something very similar to the c code above... Even the variable names (set with the //define statements at the top, are the same... )


Check out 2 Cool new Macros for directional Sound!

IdleDirSound is the same algo as above, but it allows multiple dir sounds at once!

Also the Point Sound macro for placing sounds in cubics...

A ZoomToSound and ZoomFromSound macro is around too... not quite finished, but
it’s great for simulating getting louder when you zoom towards or away from something...

Tutorial 2: 4 Directionals Sound

Steps to make the movie anderDirsnd.mov (by Anders Jiras) 

First download the pano andersPlane.mov

now 4 sound track2 :
drums.mov
 Violas.mov
  bass.mov
  rhodes.mov

STEPS:

-First open vrhtowires.
-drag the vr movie called  andersPlane.mov ' onto the open movie  window.
-now under the 'tools' menu choose directional sound.
-when the tool opens, you'll notice that when you pan, the numbers change in the ‘Play loudest when panned to’ field...showing you your current pan angle as a numerical value. 

FOR EACH OF THE 4 SOUND TRACKS DO THESE STEPS:

-drag your sound track,  onto the qtvr.
-pan the vr to where you want the sound to eminate from.
-(adjust the slider for the width of the cone of sound if you want...)
-set minimum when panned away if you want. Try zero to really get a feel for the directional on/off.
-press APPLY

It should be done. When you pan the movie away you should hear the directional sound.

If something doesn't work, check the  anderDirsnd.mov   movie and compare...

More than one directional sound in the pano will work simply ... 

as a second turial  we'll make a 4 dir snd movie like this :