Environment Panning gives developers the ability to position environments in 3D, providing new 3D gaming effects never heard before.
Imagine you are walking along a corridor, and you notice a doorway to your right hand side. The doorway leads into a room containing a noisy, clanking machine. While your footsteps echo all around you in the corridor, you can also distinctly hear a different reverberation emanating from the room. Sure, you can obviously hear that the sound of the machinery is located to your right. But crucially, the acoustic reverberation from the room can also be clearly heard reaching you through the opening on the right hand side of the passageway.
In the gaming world, you can often hear sounds from several distinct environments. With EAX 4.0, these environments can be rendered simultaneously, and each different environment localised to indicate the positions of the different acoustic spaces. Environmental PanningΓäó gives the game developer the ability to accurately pan and focus each environmental reverberation effect, to simulate reverb reaching you from any type of opening, anywhere around your head!.
