About CRI Atom Craft
CRI Atom Craft is an audio authoring tool specific to CRI ADX.
This tool allows the user to use wave files tp author interactive sound data that can be used by the ADX runtime.
Atom Craft is built around the timeline concept. It allows the user to place sounds at arbitrary positions on a timeline.
Volume and pitch changes can also be synchronized with the timeline.
The sound data files created with this tool can be played back on the targeted machines using the CRI Atom library.
The main features provided by this tool are:
- Loop playback with intros for sound effects and BGM without interruption
- Sequence-based playback of various sounds
- Limitation of simultaneous polyphony and polyphony priority settings
- Use of high-quality, highly compressed proprietary codecs
- Bulk control of volume settings by categorization
- Various filters such as pitch shift, reverb, delay and echo
- Preview linked to game applications
- Localization support by rereading waveform files
- Multi-platform development support using machine-specific settings
- Multi-person development support by linking with version control tools
- Visualization of in-game waveform playback status using a profiler
File Structure
This tool consists of the following files.
Mac
| File Name/Folder Name | Description |
|---|---|
| CriAtomCraft.app | This is the main program of the tool. |
Windows
| File/Folder Name | Description |
|---|---|
| CriAtomCraft.exe | This is the main program of the tool. |
| CriAtomEncoderHca.dll | CRI Atom Craft DLL file |
| CriAtomEncoderHcaLite.dll | CRI Atom Craft DLL file |
| Profiler.dll | CRI Atom Craft DLL file |
| D3Dcompiler_47.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Core.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Gui.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Multimedia.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5MultimediaWidgets.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Network.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5OpenGL.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Positioning.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5PrintSupport.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Qml.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Quick.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5QuickWidgets.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5SerialPort.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Svg.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5WebChannel.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5WebEngineCore.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5WebEngineWidgets.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Qt5Widgets.dll | Shared DLL files |
| QtWebEngineProcess.exe | EXE file for CRI Atom Craft |
| libEGL.dll | Shared DLL files |
| libGLESV2.dll | Shared DLL files |
| opengl32sw.dll | Shared DLL files |
| Under the audio folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the bearer folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the iconengines folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the imageformats folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the mediaservice folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the platforms folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the playlistformats folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the plugins folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the position folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the printsupport folder | Shared DLL files |
| Under the resources folder | Shared Resource Files |
| Under the translations folder | Shared Resource Files |
Starting the Tool
To launch this tool, run CriAtomCraft.app (CriAtomCraft.exe for Windows).
System Requirements
This tool runs on the environment detailed in System Requirements for the CRI Atom tool.
Also note the following when using this tool:
- This tool writes many temporary files under the project folder.
The storage where the project folder is located must have enough free space to store about three times the size of the material files.
Prerequisites
This chapter assumes that the reader is familiar with the following:
- Basic mouse operations (such as click, double-click, drag-and-drop)
- Common UI operations (such as window operation and tree viewing operation)
- Common file operations (such as creating folders, moving files, local files, and duplication)
- General knowledge of digital audio (including wave files, volume, pitch, filters and DSP in general)