Dissonance Proximity Chat with FMOD (Spatialization & Occlusion)

[Connor_FMOD]

Hi,

As Dissonance is a plugin, I would suggest reaching out to the creator for support as they will have a better understand how they have implemented FMOD.

I can however, provide some high level advice.

@mertcorekci

I’ve set up two audio buses: one for proximity chat and another for walkie-talkie (2D).

Are these two buses set up in the FMOD Studio mixer:

@mertcorekci

However, I’m having some questions about the proximity chat: The voice fades when another player moves away and gets louder when they come closer. That part works nicely. But when the player moves to my right or left, I don’t hear the sound coming from those directions—it still seems mono. Where should I start to implement proper directional audio in my game?

In FMOD Studio, we have the FMOD Studio | Effect Reference - Spatializer which could add a directional effect to the audio.

@mertcorekci

Additionally, if there’s a wall between me and the other player, I want the sound to be attenuated accordingly, but otherwise sound natural. How can I integrate that?

A topic disscussing something similar can be found here: Recommended/usual paths for audio occlusion ("walls block sound") in Unity? - #2 by joseph

@mertcorekci

The issue with this approach is that we can’t send parameters, which means we can’t really use things like spatialization or occlusion.

Can you please elaborate on this issue?

@mertcorekci

I’m not very experienced with this, but does this sound like the right approach? Or have there been issues with this kind of setup before?

Unfortunately, as we do not make the Dissonance plugin I cannot comment on the best practice. Hopefully some of this information can point you in the right direction. Please let me know if we can assist further with your FMOD implementation.