GSound: Interactive Sound Propagation for Games

Schissler C, Manocha D. GSound: Interactive Sound Propagation for Games. In: AES Conference: 41st International Conference: Audio for Games. Audio Engineering Society; 2011. Paper P2-6. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15770

@inproceedings{Schissler2011_15770,
  author = {Schissler, Carl and Manocha, Dinesh},
  title = {{GSound: Interactive Sound Propagation for Games}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 41st International Conference: Audio for Games},
  note = {Paper P2-6},
  year = {2011},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15770}
}

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AB  - We present a sound propagation and rendering system for generating realistic environmental acoustic effects in real time for game-like scenes. The system uses ray tracing to sample triangles that are visible to a listener at an arbitrary depth of reflection. Sound reflection and diffraction paths from each sound source to the listener are then validated using ray-based occlusion queries. Frame-to-frame caching of propagation paths is performed to improve the consistency and accuracy of the output. Furthermore, we present a flexible framework, which takes a small fraction of CPU cycles for time-critical scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical approach that can generate realistic sound and auralization for games on current platforms.
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