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Before doing anything, I highlighted the "Audio" folder that came with the project and deleted it.
I made a few temporary cues to hook into all the existing, now empty, audio hook locations. This process lets me explore the project bones and identify how the game's systems interact with each other on the back end. I like to take notes during this time, to list aspects of the current set up I plan to modify and make better. |
Record Foley & gather raw audioAt this stage I have a good idea about the raw audio that's needed to create my cues, so I move on to gathering those resources.
Some of those come from my own backlog, my DAW (for any tonal sources), and from recording fresh FOLEY. |
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cue sheetsAt this point, I've begun an extensive audio cue sheet to track the wave file assets I'll be creating. That sheet is set up to track the file paths and naming conventions that are in the project's "Content" folder.
I ended up with around 120 sfx assets at the end.
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Master in Adobe AuditionUsing my cue sheet, I knock out each asset one by one, always keeping organized at every step.
I use Adobe Audition to edit all my raw sources. If there is a synthetic, tonal source needed, I use FL Studio to generate those types of sounds. Video grabs were taken to use for audio that was tied to animations.
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set up cues in unreal engineOnce I've made the singular sound effects and brought them into the engine, I set them up as cues to be called in the game.
Note: This is a multi player game and so I included Attenuation nodes for handling the cue as either a local or remote player. |
Add cues to audio hook locationsIn one of my first steps I named all my initial placeholder cues by their intended final names, and added them to their hook locations. Most of these place holders update to the final sound as soon as I finish a cue, but there are some instances, like animations, that required me to wait till now to implement. This step sweeps up, and double checks that everything I wanted is in the game functioning.
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