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In depth learning on Basic Scene Configuration is found in this course in Motive Academy. |
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Use sound effects to improve the user’s experience of an equippable. |
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Make Effect Prefabs
Create a set of Prefabs for each sound effect. Making these into Prefabs will allow you to easily re-use these effects. Do this by adding
Add thePlay Sound Effect
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Script to the Prefab
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Add as many clips you like. The player will randomly choose a sound from this list when it plays
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Attach
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Effect Prefabs to the Equippable
Attach these Prefabs as children of the Equippable
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Connect
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Events to the
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Effects
Now we want to wire up the Equippable so that various events Events can trigger these sounds. Most Motive components have a set of events Events that you can attach to.
Picking Up
Connect the Grabbable “On Grab Begin Event”:
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Equip/Unequip
Connect to the Equippable “On User Equip” and “On User Unequip”
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Events. (Note that this is slightly different from “On Equip”--”On User Equip” only fires when the user takes an action to equip as opposed to the item being equipped automatically by a Script.):
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Drop
To handle effects when an item hits the ground, you’ll need to add a Collision Event Hanlder Handler script to the object. This component fires events when the object processes a collision.
Set a threshold so that the sound effect only plays when the collision has a certain force (otherwise you will notice any disturbance causes the event to fire)
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Attach to the “Collision Enter” event
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