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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

Back to the basics


As we already discussed, FMOD provides its own audio implementation within Unity. This means that we need to relearn the FMOD way of putting sound into our scene. While this may sound like we are starting over, that is far from the case. Although FMOD uses different components and terminologies, as we will see, the concepts are all the same.

Open up the Unity editor to the new project we created in the last section and let's get started working with importing the Viking Village asset into the new project by following the instructions here:

  1. From the menu, select Windows | Asset Store. After the store page loads, type unity viking village in the search box and enter to start searching for the example project. Select the first item from the list of results (as you did previously) and then from asset page, click on the Import button as shown in the screenshot here:

Importing the Unity Viking Village example project, again

Note

If you have jumped ahead to this chapter from earlier...