Nice video! A simple dictionary of that you create at runtime feels much easier to read. Also be careful with having all your sounds in a single script, specially on mobile, because if the game grows, this means having all the game audio loaded into memory from the start, even sounds that you don't even need in the current scene
this is such a good tutorial, seriously so helpful! love how you structure the video and actually show the features you're talking about at the START of the video. it helps so much to know if this tutorial is something i'm looking for. super easy to follow! thanks for sharing this for people like me to learn and follow along for free!!!
Nice! Btw one thing i like to add with audio players is random pitch - usually storing it as Vector2 (so X/Y are min/max, 1f/1f as default) and change AudioSource's pitch with random range when play function is called. Small but fun thing, however unsure how it affects perfomance in any case..
xD. I should ask the developer to add more features! Its selling point is it’s completely customisable. You can flicker colour, flicker materials, add sound, and trigger events all in just one state. You can add an infinite amount of these states that do anything you want. I genuinely use this asset in most of my projects because of how versatile it is! Would recommend checking out the tutorial video on the Unity Asset Store to see all the features :)
Yes, I do. 😄 That's what happens when you learn something new. It was a way I could think of to play five sounds at the same time for one object. But now I will try this way.
Nice video but i have a problem, How can I lower the volume of the walking sound independently?, my walking sound is very loud and I would like to decrease it without altering the others
I actually found this exact issue! On the GitHub link, you can now change each sound volume in the Unity inspector, as well as its audio mixer. So the sound manager shown in the video is a little bit outdated.
100%. The only prerequisite is the Play() method can not have more than 1 parameter. Could potentially create a scriptable object which holds Sounds enum and Volume, then pass in that.
This SoundManager is optimised for event-based sound effects. Such as playing a sound when criteria are met. For background music, I have a couple of suggestions. 1. Create a separate audio source and set it to looping. When the music needs to be triggered, call AudioSource.Play() and AudioSource.Stop() when it needs to stop. 2. Change the play method to SoundManager.Play(Sounds sound, float volume, bool looping). Then if looping is true, create a Coroutine which calls SoundManager.Play() again after the duration of the audio clip. Of course with this way, you’ll need a way to stop the looping, so there’ll need to be a new Stop() method which interrupts the Coroutine. I would strongly recommend #1. Unless you are looking to use the SoundManager script to manage all the sound/music in your project. I think the best way is a hybrid approach.
Nice video! A simple dictionary of that you create at runtime feels much easier to read. Also be careful with having all your sounds in a single script, specially on mobile, because if the game grows, this means having all the game audio loaded into memory from the start, even sounds that you don't even need in the current scene
this is such a good tutorial, seriously so helpful! love how you structure the video and actually show the features you're talking about at the START of the video. it helps so much to know if this tutorial is something i'm looking for. super easy to follow! thanks for sharing this for people like me to learn and follow along for free!!!
Thank you so much!!
Man, I didn't know I could reference instanced non static methods that way. Works with variables too I like that. You taught me much today Senpai.
Nice!
Btw one thing i like to add with audio players is random pitch - usually storing it as Vector2 (so X/Y are min/max, 1f/1f as default) and change AudioSource's pitch with random range when play function is called.
Small but fun thing, however unsure how it affects perfomance in any case..
That is a great idea! It would definitely make the sounds feel more authentic.
This seems really good, but I think the soundlist step, if not the enum should be scriptable objects.
Yeah, an array of scriptable objects would also work.
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this is awesome, i wish i knew this earlier! you earned a sub :)
The light flicker asset is simply a spotlight that dims on and off. :} 😅
xD. I should ask the developer to add more features! Its selling point is it’s completely customisable. You can flicker colour, flicker materials, add sound, and trigger events all in just one state. You can add an infinite amount of these states that do anything you want. I genuinely use this asset in most of my projects because of how versatile it is! Would recommend checking out the tutorial video on the Unity Asset Store to see all the features :)
Wait. People do that? Make a sound source for every sound? What?
You have got to be joking right?
Yes, I do. 😄 That's what happens when you learn something new. It was a way I could think of to play five sounds at the same time for one object. But now I will try this way.
You're a genius
Why not use Scriptable Objects? Sounds lists in scriptable objects. Every characters gets it's own sound list.
Depending on application. This is more generic, and requires fewer additional assets as overhead.
Nice video but i have a problem, How can I lower the volume of the walking sound independently?, my walking sound is very loud and I would like to decrease it without altering the others
I actually found this exact issue! On the GitHub link, you can now change each sound volume in the Unity inspector, as well as its audio mixer. So the sound manager shown in the video is a little bit outdated.
@@SmallHedgeHQ Oh, ok i'll try it
Meh. just use scriptable objects.
Could you refactor this to use unity events?
100%. The only prerequisite is the Play() method can not have more than 1 parameter. Could potentially create a scriptable object which holds Sounds enum and Volume, then pass in that.
@@SmallHedgeHQ In order to keep the sound enum and volume would have to be set dirty between plays
tbh just used first part of video🤣
can this system play background music while playing another sound effects using one audio source !
This SoundManager is optimised for event-based sound effects. Such as playing a sound when criteria are met. For background music, I have a couple of suggestions.
1. Create a separate audio source and set it to looping. When the music needs to be triggered, call AudioSource.Play() and AudioSource.Stop() when it needs to stop.
2. Change the play method to SoundManager.Play(Sounds sound, float volume, bool looping). Then if looping is true, create a Coroutine which calls SoundManager.Play() again after the duration of the audio clip. Of course with this way, you’ll need a way to stop the looping, so there’ll need to be a new Stop() method which interrupts the Coroutine.
I would strongly recommend #1. Unless you are looking to use the SoundManager script to manage all the sound/music in your project. I think the best way is a hybrid approach.