Game Audio with Unity and Wwise Part 8: Triggers, Stingers, and Callbacks

[@Kni9e]

Michael, thank you so much for this series. It has been invaluable to me as I begin my Game Audio career. Thanks for keeping me company these past few months with your wit, charm, deep knowledge and expertise. I hope many more stumble upon these lessons. Hands down the best tutorials out there on Wwise/Unity.

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks! Much appreciated! 😊

[@soundtogether8819]

Thank you very much Michael I learnt a lot with your course which is really complete and stimulating, inspiring and some other positive adjectives ! Thanks again for this extremely well built course and your great personality !

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!!

[@DreMusicPro]

Hey, Michael! I do music production and SFX for video games, and just wanted to say how thankful I am for this series! I've been having issues creating demo reels from the projects I've worked on because the music/sfx weren't implemented correctly so this was a big deal to find! That, and I'm seeing more and more studios asking for the audio guys to do the implementation. I need to find some tutorials for Unreal (most of the projects are in it), but I plan to go back and try and redo all the sounds in the Wwise sample games they have and use what you taught to implement my sounds! Thank you so much for this

[@michaelgwagner]

You‘re very welcome! Thanks for the note!

[@petersonnormil6799]

Finished the series. great series and resource for anyone looking to get into Wwise. Thank you so much for spending your time doing this

[@michaelgwagner]

You‘re very welcome!

[@polarsoundproductions]

Hej Michael, Thanks a lot for this great series! I have learned a lot about working with Unity & WWISE. Its much clearer now for me. All the best from Austria ;)

[@michaelgwagner]

You’re very welcome!

[@WayneofGames]

Vielen Dank für diese Serie! Hat mir Wwise sehr hilfreich näher gebracht und mir ein Verständnis über die Möglichkeiten davon gegeben. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich!

[@michaelgwagner]

Danke für die netten Worte! 😀

[@food.modular2312]

Thank you so much for this series! I followed all the eight parts here :) What I found most interesting was that you demonstrated creative ways to use Wwise with simple scripting! I do create my own creative works using Unity, so your demo taught me how to start things with those AK components and my own scripts. I will continue following up your other videos too!

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks! Awesome to hear that the videos were helpful.

[@igorkolotygin3047]

Sir, thank you again so much for your work, this series is incredible! It is very, very helpful for beginners, and yes, you explain things in a very simple and comfortable way.

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@nandocordeiro5853]

Thanks for this great series! Would like to see another series on doing the same integration but with Unreal next.

[@michaelgwagner]

I’d like to see that, too. Lol. I recently had a chat with some people from Audiokinetic and they gave me some pointers. So there is a chance that I will do an Unreal version.

[@deathfire12]

Loved this series! You really helped me understand the basics of Wwise and how to implement sounds effectively into my project. You really have a great way of explaining things to users in a clear way.

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@diegoemiliopitti]

Thank you for all the valuable information, Michael!

[@UltimaRedFireEskimo]

Thank you so much for sharing these videos, I get so excited any time I see a notification from you for a new Unity/Wwise tutorial lol. Please continue this series!

[@michaelgwagner]

Glad you like them! Class is over though. It might be a bit until I do another Wwise tutorial.

[@alexthiedmann4734]

This is a wonderful series, I frequently use it as a reference in my projects. Thank you again!

[@michaelgwagner]

You‘re very welcome! Thanks!

[@MsKlimovich]

Thank you so much, you opened my eyes to work at Unity, it's a great and experienced good start for a career, all the best to you.

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@grendel1219]

It helps me a lot. Thank you for all of your videos about Wwise + Unity. It's great

[@michaelgwagner]

You are very welcome!

[@joeyemerace6553]

Such a great series! Thank you for putting this together! I've subscribed and will be looking out for any more Wwise content you may do! Cheers from Manchester, UK.

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@amirpepper96]

Michael thank you so so much this series has been incredible and I'm already looking at other videos you made Cheers :)

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@Frost0ne_]

We did it guys ! Thank you Michael for making these videos you truly are a hero 😄

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@vnsovn]

such an incredibly helpful series, thank you so much michael!

[@michaelgwagner]

You’re very welcome!

[@peterkurucz3464]

Thank you very much for making this great series! I have learnt a lot. :)

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks! You’re very welcome!

[@breezedbeetlemusic9601]

Thank you so much Michael

[@michaelgwagner]

You‘re very welcome!

[@Light-bb7xo]

Hello! Thanks for all of your lessons, you did a pretty much job for a newbies!!! Now I’m trying to figure out how to make a footsteps sound using the 3D Person controller, and, by any chance, could you make a video about that? 🙏 Thank your very much for all your effort and best regards!

[@michaelgwagner]

I’m scheduled to teach that class again this year. I might redo the entire series, but it will take a bit.

[@Light-bb7xo]

​@@michaelgwagner actually all of the series are brilliantly accurate for people who just started into the sound engines and game engines. There is no analogues for those series, Sir. The one thing that is missing in my opinion is how to manipulate with 3D Person controllers, how to attach the colliders to the foot, how to make it all work together and play sounds. I'm grateful for your answer and hope that the new series will come soon :)

[@michaelgwagner]

Yes, when I recorded this series, Unity had just switched out their first person controller. This is be one of the topics in my videos that would benefit from an update.

[@victordl9492]

Hi, first thank you so much for your videos ! :) It really helped to get wwise and Unity fast (even if i had already some basic knowledge, but no practicing though). Maybe it would be great to have tutorials like: how to mix a game for different outputs in wwise (mostly for Tv speakers, and Headphones) or some tips in basic scripting for audio programmers. :') Thank again for all your teaching !

[@michaelgwagner]

You’re very welcome!

[@MichaelBogaMusic]

Fantastic tutorials, thank you!

[@michaelgwagner]

You’re very welcome!

[@michaelmurray2595]

Great series. Cheers, fella :)

[@michaelgwagner]

Thanks!

[@kurt1717]

Could you do a video about Dolby Atmos in Wwise? Need an experts opinion

[@michaelgwagner]

That is a good one. I have actually been asked about this by a number of people. It is somewhat more complex though. I will definitely put that on my list but it might take a bit.

[@KR101it]

Thank you for this series so much! The only thing, I do not understand about triggers in Wwise, is why didn't you use that trigger in Unity and created Wwise event instead? If I drag and drop the trigger from AKWwise Picker as a component to Topfloor object without adding the event, it still works. So, as far as I am concerned, the point is to replace the event with the trigger?

[@michaelgwagner]

It’s just a different way if doing it.

[@metachuko]

I'm trying to implement a Stinger in a Unity scene I created, (Unity 2022.1.17f1, Wwise 2022.1.0) and it doesn't seem to be working. The Trigger works fine in Wwise when playing the Event from the Soundcaster, and the Collision trigger in Unity works fine with normal Wwise 'Play' Events, so I'm having a difficult time figuring out the issue. (The Event and audio seem to be in Soundbank as well.) Edit: Nvm; I guess the music component needs to be on the triggering object. It worked after I put the music on the player.

[@michaelgwagner]

Great to hear that you got it to work. These types of issues are generally next to impossible to resolve through a youtube chat.

[@igorkolotygin3047]

Michael, I have a question. Could you recommend a way to learn scripting in Unity? You showed it in some of the lessons, and I was only able to copy things you've written, but not understand. How can I learn the basics and the main structures? I would be very thankful for any tip)!

[@michaelgwagner]

Unity now has a visual scripting language. If you are uncomfortable writing actual code you might want to try that. There should be tutorials on the Unity site.

[@igorkolotygin3047]

@@michaelgwagner thanks a lot!

[@romaincense465]

Hi Micheal and thank you very much for this series which were very helpful. I see you're switching between Wwise and Unity in the same machine. How to do this when the sound designer and the dev are working on 2 different machines ? Thank you so much !

[@michaelgwagner]

If you are working with Wwise you always have to have Unity on there as well. However, if you work with additional developers, they would not need Wwise on their machines. You would just have to use a version control system such as Perforce to synchronize accross all development machines.

[@pingping9197]

Michael~~Thank you for all the way down here~Just one question about the "Use Other Object" selection, What's the meaning of it ? And when Should I tick it up？Thanks from Shanghai!!

[@michaelgwagner]

If you want the event to be posted on the object that enters the trigger instead of the object that contains the trigger, you need to set the “use other object” flag.

[@jamesbrownisdeadcom]

Very much appreciated

[@sajjadsa8518]

Hello sir .. i have a question.. can i open some files in wwise?! .. like WBK .. can i open the WBK and edit and replace Sounds in WBK?!

[@poshwave7780]

Thank you so much :)

[@michaelgwagner]

You’re very welcome!

[@FredMaher]

Hello Michael, thanks again for this great series. I'm just completing it now and everything has worked perfectly until the Jumping Cube. (Unity 2021.3.11f1 / Wwise 2022.1.0) It's almost working - I can see the cube on start, falling through everything and into oblivion. This is the console error: "Type of instance in array does not match expected type UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput:OnDisable () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.inputsystem@1.4.2/InputSystem/Plugins/PlayerInput/PlayerInput.cs:1734)"

[@FredMaher]

Here is another clue: "SendMessage onMusicBeat has no receiver! UnityEngine.GameObject:SendMessage (string,object)"

[@michaelgwagner]

That’s unfortunately very difficult to debug from a distance through a chat. Did you check if the Wwise and Unity versions have been tested to work together?