Load sound files from .zip

gingerheadman · Post by **gingerheadman** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:31 am

Hi

I was just wondering if anyone knows how to load OpenAL sound files from a .zip archive. I already know how to use .zip archives in Irrlicht with device->getFileSystem()->addZipFileArchive("somezipfile.zip") but unfortunately this only works for files used by Irrlicht such as 3d models, textures, shaders, etc but not sounds. So does anyone know what I can do if I want to store all the files used by my game inside a zip/pk3 file?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:28 pm

You need a possibility to play from RAM, so you can load the file to RAM from the zip file first, and then pass that memory area to OpenAL.

gingerheadman · Post by **gingerheadman** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:37 am

Thanks for that

. I'm trying to work out how to do that right now and I'll post again if I can get it to work.