Audio Setup

Working with Audio Components

Challenge 1: Audio Setup

3D Audio in Unity

Challenge 2: Create 3D and 2D Audio

Audio Reverb Zones

Challenge 3: Add Reverb Zones to Customize the Environment's Effect on the Audio

Sound Effects Scripting

Challenge 4: Trigger Audio Playback via C# Script

Challenge 5: Create a Custom Audio Mix in the Scene

Submissions - Beginning Audio in Unity

Recorded Live Session - Beginning Audio in Unity

Unity’s audio system imports most standard audio file formats. It allows you to mix and master in real time, and it can replicate 3D spatial sound effects like echo, object movement (like the sound of a fast-moving car), and reverb. In this tutorial, you'll prepare in import audio files, and add Audio Source and Audio Listener components to your project. 

Prepare an Audio File

Preparing and importing audio files

Adding an Audio Source Component

Adding an Audio Listener Component

Conclusion

What are Audio Clips?

Preparing and Importing Audio Files

Importing Audio Clips

The Unity Editor enables you to set high fidelity audio to simulate how sounds are perceived in a 3D environment. Elements in a Scene containing sound are represented in a 3D position distributed through the speaker space. Volume rolloff and pitch are also factored into moving objects. Consider the sound of an approaching train. While the listener perceives the train’s noise to grow louder as it travels closer, so too will the perception of pitch increase. Immediately as the train passes with a “whooshing” sound, the volume and pitch drops due to the familiar phenomena of the doppler effect and volume rolloff. 

Getting Set Up

Working with 3D Audio

Next Steps

Learn to create reverb zones and mix the audio to configure a custom audio experience that emulates the physics of real world audio 

Setting up Reverb Zones

Learn how to trigger audio playback in the scene using a custom C# script component 

Creating the C# script

Learn how to create a custom audio mix to vary the levels at which various sounds play within your project

Creating custom Mixes

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Submit your project

LiveSession_AudioAssets.zip

This project features the classic Windridge City project with the addition of the Standard Assets first person controller. The project includes a few key areas that will benefit from the addition of audio. You will have the opportunity to configure both 2D and 3D audio, create Reverb Zones to enhance the environmental audio effects, trigger audio from a custom C# script, and master the scene’s audio using the Audio Mixer. 

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Beginning Audio in Unity

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Importing the Post Processing Package

Adding Audio Components

Learn to create audio sources in the Unity Project that are configured to playback during runtime 

AI, ML Curricular Framework Resources 

Import the Post Processing Package from the Package Manager (Window > Package Manager) 

Add an AudioSource to the Car GameObject by selecting it, clicking Add Component, searching for and selecting Audio Source. 

In the Audio Source Component, add the AccelerationLow Audio Clip to the Audio Clip field.

To add background audio; create a new GameObject called AudioSource_Jazz.

Add an Audio Source component to the newly created GameObject before setting the Audio Clip to Jazz. 

Challenge 1: Audio Setup

1. Importing the Post Processing Package

2. Adding Audio Components

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