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Building Levels in Unity

By : Volodymyr Gerasimov
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Building Levels in Unity

By: Volodymyr Gerasimov

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Levels in Unity
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Dealing with Basic Animations
Index

Introduction to audio mixer


Creating rich audio effects and making them work is a tough task. Earlier, control over complex sound systems at runtime required a lot of programming support; besides that, the pipeline itself felt disorganized as audio designers would have all those individual audio sources stationed around the level, turning the process of managing them into quite a headache. Thankfully, developers at Unity Technologies realized this issue and managed to come up with a solution in the form of the audio mixer.

How does it work?

Making its debut with the release of Unity 5, the audio mixer came a long way in addressing most of the annoying issues associated with audio management. We will see the application of that in a following example; however, first, let's take a look at what it consists of:

  1. Open the window called Audio Mixer from the Window tab at the top menu.

  2. Once you get there, click on the + sign next to Mixers.

This will create our first audio mixer that we will use to...