NAME

       cfsndserv - crossfire client sound server

DESCRIPTION

       getzone adjusts and mixes sounds before playing them

USAGE

       getzone none - started automatically by crossfire client

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       ~/.crossfire/sndconfig can contain the following options:

       stereo
         1 means stereo sound, 0 - mono

       bits
         bitrate of generated sound - 8 or 16

       signed
         if we should sent signed data to the soundcard. 1 means yes.

       frequency
         speed of playing data. This should be 11025, or sound pitch will change

       buffers
         how many buffers to allocate

       buflen
         how big the buffers should be. buffers*buflen shouldn't be smaller than the longest
         sound to be played.

       simultaneously
         home many sound can be played at the same time. When this setting is bigger, each sound
         volume will decrease.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

       The sound server gets information about sounds to be played on standard input.

       The information is a line: <sound number> <sound type> <relative x> <relative y> All those
       numbers are hex.  The file ~/.crossfire/sounds contains description of sound numbers and
       types. For example:

       3 0 5 0

       Means that normal sound SOUND_FUMBLE spell should be played as it's source was5 units to
       the right of player.

       Sounds are mixed in special buffers, which are in fact one buffer, which should be big
       enough for the biggest sound to be played.

       The buffers, if contain anything, are sent one by one to the sound device. Each buffer is
       cleaned after playing.

       Sounds data is multiplied by some ratio (<1) evaluated from it's position and volume and
       added to the buffers, starting from the next after the one being played.

       So bigger buffer means bigger delay, before th sound is actually played, but the smaller
       buffer is, the bigger is possibility, we won't succeed filling the next buffer, before
       last is played.

SEE ALSO

       crossfire(1)

       http://crossfire.real-time.com

AUTHOR

        Jaakko Niemi put this page together for Debian packages by cutting
        and pasting from README file of crossfire-client.