We’re trying to use FMOD haptics for our vibrations on PS5 and Switch2 platforms. One issue we have is how to implement a way to give player option to turn it off or lower the power. Also when game gets paused we set the buses to paused, but this doesn’t seem to stop the haptics effects that are already playing. Is there any way to pause or “mute” haptics via code?
Hi,
Thank you for sharing the information.
For now the best workaround would be to control the haptics intensity through a global parameter.
For example, you could create a global continuous parameter such as HapticIntensity and use it to automate the Left/Right intensity of your Haptics Instruments.
Then in Unity, you can set the value via Studio::System::setParameterByName
When the game is paused, set this parameter to 0, then restore it to the player’s selected value when the game is unpaused.
This should allow you to handle both the player vibration strength option and the pause menu case for any haptics clips using that global parameter.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions.
Are there any plans to support Switch2 and other platforms? Right now I can see that there are libfmod_haptics in lib folder, but there is no way to load it either as dynamic or static lib in our builds, and the banks containing haptics instruments also fail loading when running on Switch2 DevKit.
Switch 2 haptics is supported. The currently listed haptics supported devices/platforms can be found in Haptics
Could I please get a screenshot of how your static plugin is set up in Unity?
You may have already tried this, but just to double check, could you please try adding the haptics plugin as a Static Plugin in the Switch 2 platform settings?
You can find more information about Unity static plugins here: Static Plugin
In FMOD Settings > Platform Specific > Switch 2 > Static Plugins, try adding:
FMOD_Haptics_GetDSPDescription
If the bank still fails to load, could you please share the full bank loading error, along with the exact FMOD Studio and Unity integration version you are using?
This solutions works. But we have another problem when turning on Stripping level on player settings we get the old error while loading the banks (we changed the exceptions to error messages so that game would still run):
[FMOD] PostLoad::initPluginEffects : DSP plugin returned an error, bank will not load properly.
UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:Internal_Log(LogType, LogOption, String, Object)
UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:LogFormat(LogType, Object, String, Object)
UnityEngine.Logger:Log(LogType, Object)
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
FMODUnity.RuntimeUtils:DebugLogError(String) (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Plugins\FMOD\src\RuntimeUtils.cs:596)
FMODUnity.RuntimeManager:DEBUG_CALLBACK(DEBUG_FLAGS, IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr) (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Plugins\FMOD\src\RuntimeManager.cs:107)
Error loading bank: rom:/Data/StreamingAssets/Desktop/Haptic.bank
UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:Internal_Log(LogType, LogOption, String, Object)
UnityEngine.DebugLogHandler:LogFormat(LogType, Object, String, Object)
UnityEngine.Logger:Log(LogType, Object)
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
FMODUnity.RuntimeManager:RegisterLoadedBank(LoadedBank, String, String, Boolean, RESULT) (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Plugins\FMOD\src\RuntimeManager.cs:869)
FMODUnity.RuntimeManager:LoadBank(String, Boolean, String) (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Plugins\FMOD\src\RuntimeManager.cs:974)
FMODUnity.RuntimeManager:LoadBank(String, Boolean) (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Plugins\FMOD\src\RuntimeManager.cs:925)
FMODSoundUtils:LoadAllBanks() (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Scripts\Framework\Sound\FMODSoundUtils.cs:262)
Startup:Awake() (at D:\dev\goldman-switch\Assets\Scripts\Levels\Common\Startup.cs:39)
Adding FMOD to link.xml seems to fix this issue:
<assembly fullname="FMODUnity" preserve="all" />
Thank you for sharing the solution here!