Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X电子书

Title Page

Copyright

Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Acknowledgments

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Introducing Game Audio with Unity

Introduction to game audio

Main game audio components

Diegetic versus non-diegetic sound

Audio layers or groups

Getting started with unity

Downloading unity

An introduction to unity

Downloading and importing project assets

A tour of the village

Importing audio into unity

Inspecting the imported audio files

Audio sources and listeners

Adding an audio source

3D sound and spatial blending

Summary

Scripting Audio

Introduction to scripting in Unity

Building a musical keyboard

Importing and playing notes

Enhancing the virtual keyboard

Weapons and sound

Throwing the ax

Understanding the axController script

Playing sounds on collision

Randomizing audio

Background music

Summary

Introduction to the Audio Mixer

Introducing the Unity Audio mixer

Creating mixer groups

Shaping audio with effects

Visualizing audio equalization

The master mixer and controlling signal flow

Routing audio signals in the mixer to effects

Audio effects breakdown

Equalization effects

Lowpass and Lowpass simple

Highpass and Highpass simple

ParamEQ

Delay effects

Echo

SFX reverb

Flange

Chorus

Other effects

Pitch Shifter

Normalize

Compressor

The duck volume effect

Summary

Advanced Audio Mixing

Recording audio changes with snapshots

Pausing the scene

Audio Mixer scripting with parameters

A dynamic audio wind effect

Creating environmental audio zones

Dynamic music mixing

Summary

Using the Audio Mixer for Adaptive Audio

Introducing adaptive audio

Building adaptive audio cues

Creating mood with adaptive music

Vertical remixing with the Audio Mixer

Footsteps with adaptive sound

Summary

Introduction to FMOD

Getting started with FMOD Studio

Installing FMOD Studio

Back to the basics

Effects and mixing

Mixing in a reverb effect

Parameters, snapshots, and triggers

Summary

FMOD for Dyanmic and Adaptive Audio

Dynamic wind and environmental zones

Scripting with FMOD

Revisiting the footsteps example

Adaptive music with FMOD

Transition timelines and stingers

Summary

Visualizing Audio in Games

Analyzing audio with Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) windows

Audio spectrum

Deconstructing signals using FFT and windowing

Examining an audio visualizer

Uncovering the details

Visualization performance and windowing

Audio-driven lighting

Microphone-driven visualizations

Summary

Character Lip Syncing and Vocals

Real-time lip syncing

Speech and phonemes

Blend shape animation

Real-time character lip sync

Recording vocals

Summary

Composing Music

Getting started with Reaper

MIDI and virtual instruments

Virtual instruments

Basic music theory

Chords and chord progressions

Chord progression

Melody and scale

Enhancing the composition

Recording music and vocals

Recording and optimizing vocals

Summary

Audio Performance and Troubleshooting

Audio performance considerations

Profiling performance with Unity

Audio optimization tips and tricks for Unity

Memory optimization tips and tricks

Effects optimization tips and tricks

FMOD performance and optimization

Audio troubleshooting

Summary