Breaking up with FMOD - Why we ended things and embraced Metasounds / Daniel Nielsen
Are you tired of being in a stagnant relationship with your game's audio system? Our team felt the same way, so we broke up with FMOD and started seeing Metasounds instead. We had to navigate some challenges during the transition, but we built custom editor scripts to automate certain processes, and we found that while FMOD made it easier to design sounds and music, Unreal provides fewer bugs. And while both Unreal Audio and Metasounds have their quirks, we decided to take matters into our own hands and build our own custom tools and features to make the workflow as efficient as we can.. Our bumpy journey from transitioning to Unreal Audio is not without any problems, but we feel like we are on the right track. We have the flexibility to create the sounds we want and take our game's audio to new heights. So if you're ready to break free from your boring audio engine, join us as we share our story of breaking up with FMOD and embracing the wacky world of Metasounds.
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- 1. Breaking up & breaking free Daniel Martin Nielsen Why we ended things with FMOD and embraced Metasounds x
- 2. Who Am I? Sound Artist Composer Saxophonist Technical Sound designer X
- 3. Who Am I? Sound Artist Composer Saxophonist Technical Sound designer X
- 4. Who Am I? Credited Sound Artist Composer Saxophonist Technical Sound designer X
- 5. Who Am I? Credited Sound Artist Composer Saxophonist Technical Sound designer Last year I talked about a game I made in Wwise X
- 6. Who Am I? Credited Sound Artist Composer Saxophonist Technical Sound designer And Reaper X
- 7. Biblical Exploration “A story-rich adventure video game that takes you back in time to explore 1st century Israel, interact with gospel stories and examine the deeper meaning of Jesus words”
- 9. FMOD
- 10. FMOD
- 11. FMOD
- 12. FMOD
- 15. Live editing Build your own ‘middleware’ No missing events or soundbanks What’s good?
- 16. Designed for programmers Build your own middleware Without the middleware What’s not so good?
- 19. Events can be inside of evens Metasounds can be inside metasounds What’s similar?
- 20. Events can be inside of evens Metasounds can be inside metasounds
- 23. Music System
- 24. Music System
- 25. Music System
- 26. Music System
- 27. Music System
- 28. Music System
- 31. Cue Points Music stem Cue 0 START Cue 1 STINGER Cue 2 END
- 38. Dovetailing Music stem The same music stem
- 48. x What’s next? Segment A1, transition segment to A2 or B2
- 49. x Soundscapes
- 51. x Using Quarts & Blueprints Documentation Collaboration Learnings Unleash the power of blueprints and not limiting to metasounds Write clean code with sharp documentation Can the composer implement his own music? Transition one by one
- 52. CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, including icons by Flaticon, and infographics & images by Freepik Let’s keep in touch Thanks x @gminorscale @gminorscale @danielsaxy Daniel Martin Nielsen
Editor's Notes
- We went with FMOD and that was a solid solution. Easy to collaborate, intuitive software,
- Playing 8 audio files at the same time