Hi. I am a total beginner when it comes to making FMODs: my goal is to make one for X-Plane 11, including engine and cockpit switch/click sounds. I have downloaded the necessary software etc., and started a new project, but the only video I can find is this:
It is certainly useful, but I am already getting a bit lost by the time she talks about adding parameters, 3 mins or so in. I will perhaps be able to work it all out eventually, but just wondering if any ‘old hand’ here may know of something that will go a bit more slowly: the video above assumes a level of knowledge that at the moment I do not have. I have multiple wav files as sources, startup sounds, engine running, shutdown, as well as non-engine-related files.
You’ll find a short introductory tutorial on FMOD Studio here. It guides you through all the important features and introduces the concepts you’ll need to do anything else in FMOD Studio.
If you have any questions about that tutorial, or find parts of it puzzling, please let us know! We’ll be glad to answer any questions you have, and letting us know which parts of our tutorial are unclear helps us work out which parts of it we need to improve.
Things are not happening as outlined in the tutorial. Before I can be more specific, could someone please tell me how I can change the current FMOD Studio colour scheme? Every window that opens is black writing on a dark grey background - so hard to read anything. I tried changing my Windows 10 global colour settings, but FMOD in unaffected.
EDIT: Looks like I can’t alter this - and that a change is very long overdue (quoting from this forum):
At the time of writing (July of 2019), FMOD Studio does not include any light mode, high contrast mode, or similar display mode designed to make it easier to see. This feature is already on our feature/improvement tracker, but has not yet been scheduled for development.
Unfortunately, that is indeed the case: As of the time of writing (February of 2025), FMOD Studio does not support any light mode, high contrast mode, or similar display mode designed to make its interface easier to see.
I’ll add you to the list of people who have requested this feature.
Six years on from the previous message, as I copied into mine, I won’t hold my breath. Not sure how the current colour scheme was ever thought to be a good idea, but hey ho… Maybe if I adjust my desktop colour settings I can improve things somewhat. I must admit though, it has put me off using FMOD studio, as I really have to struggle to read what is written (my eyes partly to blame, to be sure) and end up feeling a bit irritated by it. J
