Comments

• ChrisIceBox

  August 2023

  Yes - it'd be better to rely on a single track and control its volume, to avoid having to sync two separate tracks together.

  You can programatically control the **Relative volume* slider for the track as it appears in the Ambience Storage window. This'll take the form of:

  AC.KickStarter.settingsManager.ambienceStorages[X].relativeVolume
  

  Where "X" is the ID value of the track.

  You can get this API reference for any Editor field by right-clicking the label - a tutorial on this, and updating it through script can be found here.
• stelabouras

  August 2023

  Thanks for the quick reply Chris!

  Changing the value of the relativeVolume property on the fly doesn't seem to affect the actual volume of the track that's being played though, unless I am doing something wrong.

  I was able to make this work via Reflection (by accessing the underlying SetRelativeVolume() method of the Soundtrack class), but it feels kinda hacky to me:

  public static void SetRelativeVolume(this Soundtrack soundtrack, float relativeVolume)
  {
      typeof(Soundtrack).GetMethod(
          "SetRelativeVolume",
          BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
          Type.DefaultBinder,
          new[] {typeof (float)},
          null)
          .Invoke(soundtrack, new object[] { relativeVolume });
  }
  

  and then calling KickStarter.stateHandler.GetAmbienceEngine ().SetRelativeVolume(relativeVolume);
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2023

  Ah, my mistake - the track's relativeVolume property is only applied at the point the track begins playback.

  The relativeVolume in the Soundtrack class is public, however. Just call SetMaxVolume afterwards to apply changes to it:

  KickStarter.stateHandler.GetAmbienceEngine ().relativeVolume = relativeVolume;
  KickStarter.stateHandler.GetAmbienceEngine ().SetMaxVolume ();
  
• stelabouras

  August 2023

  Thanks Chris! That's definitely a cleaner approach. I will use that instead on the new custom Action I have created to control the relative volume of the ambience track from an ActionList.

  Have a great weekend!