C++ Functions Big thanks to Jamie Carnell for putting up with my many questions about C++ and the Wwise API throughout this learning process. Audio Statics Library Get Surface Type By Line Trace To begin the process of converting my blueprints into C++ classes, I created a Blueprint Function Library to house all audio related…

Introduction This section of the devlog will go over the common audio systems used in game audio integration that I have created for this project (brace yourself, it’s a long one). I will be explaining and providing examples of both blueprints and C++ functions used to create this behaviour in-engine. The features I will be…

Introduction A key objective of this project was to establish an industry quality Wwise project structure, utilizing consistent naming conventions, hierarchies and event behaviour construction. The official Audio Kinetic website provides ample information on the Wwise Authoring applications features and demonstrates example use cases for each view and layout. However, Audio Kinetic provides significantly less…

Project Introduction This project aims to demonstrate the implementation of the Wwise spatial audio pipeline within a UE5.1 example environment. This demonstration will showcase how Wwise spatial audio features such as Rooms and Portals can be utilized to create adaptive ambiences and spatialize audio sources with diffraction and transmission. In addition, I will be demonstrating…

Post Mortem This post-mortem will provide a breakdown of the project’s milestones, highlighting its successes and areas where improvements can be made. This breakdown will serve as a valuable learning opportunity to identify shortcomings to be avoided in future projects. In short, I feel that this project was a success, aided significantly by the amount…

Obstruction Optimization While many of the optimizations created for occlusion are shared with the obstruction system, there are some obstruction-specific optimizations that had to be made to reduce unnecessary overhead. Like occlusion, a movement check is performed before obstruction is calculated to determine whether the player or emitter has moved a greater amount than the…

After gathering all the relevant data from both the occlusion and obstruction systems, the next step is to interpret this data for use with FMOD parameters. The values used to modify occlusion and obstruction processing effects are calculated using various metrics obtained from the previously discussed ‘update’ functions. To calculate the occlusion value, a ratio…