Setting up a AAA Wwise project - Part 6: Setting up base ambience with switches and RTPCs

Let's create the basis of our ambience system by having just one event - a switch and an RTPC
#wwise #tutorial #gameaudio
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[@koi7946]

plz record more lessons, its very helpful :)))

[@JohnTosom]

I need this kind of videos for a long time. Thank you. Waiting for more

[@anthonyturi]

A real gem of a series - thanks for putting these videos together!

[@markbergsound]

Agreed!

[@contentuser8821]

Thank you so much, cant wait for more!

[@RimmCriolle]

Your stuff is amazing. I just started my first job as junior sound designer at a bigger company and this is exactly what I need to know.

[@CujoSound]

Best of luck with it and congrats on landing that job :D

[@Mrjononotbono]

Gonna have to watch all of these at least 50 times 😂

[@davidmiles329]

Hi, Bjørn! I am now working on my portfolio project (Unity+Wwise) and could really use your advice. My level is a spaceship (a lot of rooms, corridors, couple of big halls) and a closed ecosystem attached to it(like a giant dome with natural environment under it). Spaceship and dome are connected via tunnel. What is the best way to organize structure of ambience in Wwise (considering I am gonna create diffraction\occlusion system inside of spaceship later using AKRoom and AKAmbient)? Anyway, thank you for this video. Whole series is pure gold.

[@CujoSound]

Would you mind dropping me an email instead ? Whatever at cujo dot dk.

[@ktoleopold]

Thanks a lot Bjørn! Do you use soundcaster sessions to test your systems in wwise?

[@CujoSound]

I use Soundcaster all the time yes

[@CujoSound]

Especially for a system like this

[@halyalkarfamily4079]

One question I have is - how much longer a general Ambience track should be? Is 1 minute ok? Or should it be short or long? What's your average duration? Also do you import your samples at 41100 Hz or 48000 Hz? Thank you Cujo sound!! You're a master!!! 🙏🙏👍

[@CujoSound]

I run 48/24, it's the format that I prefer. :) About the length of a track, it should be so that the player who is in it will never experience the experience of it actually looping. One minute is usually what I use. If I have a lot of smaller randomized sounds with the general ambience loop, then it can be much less too

[@halyalkarfamily4079]

@@CujoSound Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! 🙇

[@ktoleopold]

Bjørn, one more question :-) Are biome type switches usually called by triggerboxes from game engine?

[@CujoSound]

They could be yea. Like if you have a manually set up audio level or layer, then you could on each trigger box just alter the switch or state instead of firing a new event

[@ktoleopold]

@@CujoSound thanks!

[@giovannigiorgio2262]

hi man i need help how i can install Opus ?? there is just pcm and vorbis and adpcm

[@nilsheine1002]

Does anyone know how to set up the Blueprints in Unreal for switching between these ambiences and only post that one event?

[@CujoSound]

You'd either need volume boxes across the level to on trigger set the switch or an auto detection to set the switch. Would be the same really

[@nilsheine1002]

@@CujoSound thanks for the quick reply! I tried it out but still didn’t get it to work. I have a basic blueprint that just says „on begin - post event (ambience event) Default grassland ambience starts playing as soon as I start the level . Then I have a volume box with another blueprint saying „on actor overlap - setSwitch (forestswitch). What am I missing ? Thanks in advance

[@CujoSound]

@Nils Heine it should set a state, it's a switch container on wwise, but it is switching on state changes

[@nilsheine1002]

@@CujoSound but in this video you are switching with switches, right? :D I’m a bit confused now. How can a state set a switch ?

[@CujoSound]

@Nils Heine I'm not, it's a state. On the switch container, you can set on what change it should change. You can select both state groups and switch groups. If you really want it to be a switch, then the switch you set in the BP must have the actor playing the ambient sounds linked as Actor