Exporting for multiple speaker configurations

FMOD Studio
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Hello there,
I want to build my banks for different speaker configurations (a la Headphones, Surround, TV). There’s a very informative part under “Advanced Topics” of documentation, which shows a folder structure that has separated Assets and Metadata files.

When I try to achieve that, I can’t see an option like “don’t build Asset files with this Platform setting” or “Only build metadata”-like option, and FMOD always builds/exports the Assets banks in every folder. So, should my workflow include manually deleting unnecessary files?

I have around 10 banks, spread at 3 different platforms and 3 configurations each. I’m doing quick changes and minor revisions all the time. Manually deleting those for every build seems like a chore - and also lengthens my build times as banks are generated from 0. Any tips I’m missing about this?

Edit: I’m on 1.10.16

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At present, there is no option in FMOD Studio to avoid building asset banks on a per-platform basis.

That being said, I can see how the feature you suggest would be useful, so I’ll add it to our feature/improvement tracker.

If you’re looking to speed your workflow, you could potentially not delete the unnecessary files when performing only minor tweaks - provided that there is sufficient storage available for the extra files on your test machine, of course. The files can always be deleted later.

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Thanks so much for clearing that up for me!
For now, I just went ahead and ignored unnecessary files on source control level, and going to write a small python code to automate the clean up. Thanks anyways :slight_smile: