Audio - controling volume of sounds played in c#

Temmy

Unity Ver: 2019.4.18f1
AC Ver: 1.73.8

Hello,

I'm starting to add a few sound effects into my game. The vast majority of these are played in action lists, but player sounds are done from various C# classes.

I want to ensure that all sound effects abide to the volume level set via the AC options menu in game. How would I ensure the sounds played in scripts respect that?

Thanks!

ChrisIceBox

The easiest way is to rely on AC's Audio Mixer Groups option, which controls volume by adjusting the attenuation of individual Speech/SFX/Music mixer groups. Including custom audio in those volume controls is then just a matter of assigning the appropriate mixer group to the AudioSource.

This tutorial covers the process of working with mixer groups.

Temmy

Thanks Chris. All up and running in less than 15 mins. Another win for AC!

Temmy

Bonus side question @ChrisIceBox; someone popped up and asked would it be possible to alter the volume slider using the mouse scroll wheel. Is that a bit too advanced for a pure AC menu?

ChrisIceBox

You can't control an AC Slider directly that way, but if you update the volume directly then the element should update to reflect the change:

float speechVolume = AC.Options.GetSpeechVolume ();
AC.Options.SetSpeechVolume (speechVolume);

float sfxVolume = AC.Options.GetSFXVolume ();
AC.Options.SetSFXVolume (sfxVolume);

float musicVolume = AC.Options.GetMusicVolume ();
AC.Options.SetMusicVolume (musicVolume);