Book Image

Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

By : Micheal Lanham
Book Image

Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

By: Micheal Lanham

Overview of this book

Game Audio is one of the key components in making a game successful and it is quite popular in the gaming industry. So if you are a game developer with an eye on capturing the gamer market then this book is the right solution for you. In this book, we will take you through a step by step journey which will teach you to implement original and engaging soundtracks and SFX with Unity 5.x. You will be firstly introduced to the basics of game audio and sound development in Unity. After going through the core topics of audio development: audio sources, spatial sound, mixing, effects, and more; you will then have the option of delving deeper into more advanced topics like dynamic and adaptive audio. You will also learn to develop dynamic and adaptive audio using the Unity Audio Mixer. Further, you will learn how professional third party tools like FMOD are used for audio development in Unity. You will then go through the creation of sound visualization techniques and creating your own original music using the simple yet powerful audio workstation Reaper. Lastly, you will go through tips, techniques and strategies to help you optimize game audio performance or troubleshoot issues. At the end of the book, you’ll have gained the skills to implement professional sound and music. Along with a good base knowledge audio and music principles you can apply across a range of other game development tools.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Foreword
Preface

Background music


In the last section of this chapter, we will introduce another layer of audio with background or theme music. This is an often overlooked layer that can really set the mood of the game or during the progression of a game. In later chapters of this book where we cover adaptive music we will get into detailed examples of altering music during gameplay. For now though, we are going to look at a simple use of scripting to set the looping behavior of some background music we want to use for our scene. Follow the instructions here to add background music to the scene:

  1. Open up Unity to the Viking Village scene as we last left it. Create an empty GameObject in the scene and rename it BackgroundMusic.
  2. Locate the viking_music audio clip in the Project window. Drag the clip onto the new BackgroundMusic object in the Hierarchy window. This will automatically add an audio source component with the audio clip set.
  3. Locate the MusicLooper script in the Project window. Drag the script onto...