[openal] distance model questions

[Chris Robinson]

On 05/28/2015 02:50 AM, Victorious wrote:
> That worked like a charm, thanks.
>
> If the gain is set to 0, it is completely muted. Is the source still
> considered playing?

Yes. Certain steps may be skipped in the mixing pipeline for such 
sources, but as far as the app sees it plays normally (its offset will 
continue to increment, buffers will become processed, etc).

> On a related question, what is the maximum number of sounds that can
> be played on windows 8.1?

OpenAL Soft has a practical limit of 256 simultaneous sources (the same 
maximum that can be allocated). It's all done in software, so the OS 
doesn't affect it.

Other implementations may have their own limits based on whatever 
criteria it uses. You can query this limit calling alcGetIntegerv with 
ALC_MONO_SOURCES and ALC_STEREO_SOURCES (you're guaranteed to be able to 
play the given number of mono sources and stereo sources simultaneously).