Cheers! Your videos have been a big inspiration for me so right back at ya!

Yeah bunch are from there and a few other libraries but I lost the session a while ago so unfortunately I can’t be specific on the samples. Apologies!

Yep no worries

Just found the breakdown video. Gonna watch it now. Man, you are amazing. Subscribed!

Space marine 2? What?

You should try AfterTouch Audio libraries, they're really cheap

So I would suggest some weapon libraries from the recordist or BOOM. The construction kits especially have professional recordings of real weapons which could be helpful. Unfortunately like you said without the right location and equipment it can be hard to get a clean recording. Another note is most weapons have a very similar sound if it’s completely realistic so you may need to do some light design work to differentiate them regardless. Hope this helps!

Cheers mate and great questions! 1. To integrate the shots, most of the time the programmer (or even designer) would usually use Middleware. Thats a program like Wwise or FMOD that we use to essentially tell the game engine what to do, you can absolutely use the in engine audio systems but generally middleware is just a lot more helpful. So for example playing a single gunshot sound for each shot through Wwise could look like this: - All variations of a single shot are put in a 'Random Container'. (A container that will randomly play one of its sounds when called). - That random container is put into a ‘Shoot’ event. (Events are what the game engine uses when needed). - In the game engine that event can be set up to be called by many different ways. Like triggering the event when a ‘shoot’ animation' plays. (via animation tagging), triggering the event when the ammo counter changes or triggering the event when a muzzle flash/projectile is spawned etc. You can also do additional things like culling voices so they don't get overpowering and messing with volume and pitch randomization, effects etc. There are some better ways than others all depending on what you want and how the game itself is constructed. Different distances would be different events and only get called when the gunfire is certain distances away. As for gunshot loops its mostly the same as above but there are usually 2 events: Loop Start - The start event could have like a shot or mech one off sound and the start of the loop itself, this can be triggered for instance like when the fire button is pressed. Loop Stop - The loop stop will have a one off like the last shot or the tail of the shot as well as the call to stop the loop, which can be called when the fire button is released for example. 2. Ideally the rendered samples have the exact right amount of space before starting that you want, like if the gun fires the frame after the fire button is pressed you'd also want your sample to start immediately and not have any space before hand. (As it will play from the start of the sample, not the start of any audio, which can also be changed and edited/faded in Wwise anyways). Mono, Stereo, Quad whatever you want just as long as they are consistent and make sure to leave space after in the render in case of reverb or effect tails, don't want any sudden cut outs or pops/clicks! This is a big oversimplification of course haha, this is more the process and basic idea to get it to play correctly. There is so much more you can do in Wwise in terms of real time effects, volume and distance manipulation, layers and so much more! Hopefully this was helpful and made some sort of sense!

@@mattgault2899 Thank you so much for the detailed answer!