How SFML handles spatialization

SFML has a number of functions that allow us to handle emitters, attenuation, and listeners. Let's take a look at them hypothetically, and then we will write some code to add spatialized sound to our project for real.

We can set up a sound effect ready to be played, as we have done so often, as follows:

// Declare SoundBuffer in the usual way 
SoundBuffer zombieBuffer; 
// Declare a Sound object as-per-usual 
Sound zombieSound; 
// Load the sound from a file like we have done so often 
zombieBuffer.loadFromFile("sound/zombie_growl.wav"); 
// Associate the Sound object with the Buffer 
zombieSound.setBuffer(zombieBuffer); 

We can set the position of the emitter using the setPosition function, as shown in the following code:

// Set the horizontal and vertical positions of the emitter 
// In this case the emitter is a zombie 
// In the Zombie Arena project we could have used  
// getPosition().x and getPosition().y 
// These values are arbitrary...