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

If you went above and beyond and want to share your project with others, submit a screenshot or video of your project here! 

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. 

2019.4

Beginning Audio in Unity

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Went through the tutorials and created sound effects generating from the projectile launch, bricks being hit and the car honking if you come within range.

Destroy The Bricks!

jbpett19

I have completed this beginner audio project. Here I have uploaded screen recording of the project.

movie_002.mp4

My new audio project.

ArunSV

A short 8 seconds exercise full of sounds.
I made all the SFX and BGM for a total of 20 SFX and 1 short BGM

Kena-B.O.S.AudioLevel_1_O.C..mp4

Kena-Bridge of spirit:AudioLevel_1_O.C.

BOTsigmar

Scene escape.mp4

Scene escape

giorgos

3DCore - Main Level - Windows, Mac, Linux - Unity 2021.3.20f1 Personal_ _DX11_ 2023-03-15 09-22-11.mp4

Fight scene

Yan_workshop

I simply followed the tutorial here with a few small changes, nothing special.

Sounds of the Town

koshi_kishi

Video Small Forest.mp4

Challenge Beginning Audio

KatjaH

ЛАМБА

renatpozoyan2010

Games

If you went above and beyond and want to share the audio and sound effects you added to your project, do a screen-recording and post it here to share what you made! You can also upload your project online as a WebGL build so others can play it. To upload a WebGL build, you can:

Follow the instructions to build your project for WebGL

Go to Unity Connect and click the Post Project button in the top-right corner

Follow the instructions to upload your WebGL project

Share a link in your submission description below so other people know where to find it

Submissions - Beginning Audio in Unity

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