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Steam Audio Open Source Release (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For others who wonder the same: the announcement is from the 19th this month and they licensed it under Apache 2.0.
This is really cool to see! I hope they are testing the waters for releasing the source engine as free software. I remember Gabe Newell stating that they would consider it if people were interested. Doesn't have to mean anything, but a woman can dream~

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't get it. Is it just audio tweaking tools that developers can use, that they have now made open source?

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    • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this for streaming video game soundtracks or ??

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a tool for easily creating realistic audio in games. Basically you can give it a 3d environment, and it can bake sound propagation information so that sounds have realistic reverb and filters. They've used it for some of their recent games (most notably Half-Life: Alyx).

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