Hello there. As I want to move my Project to the atmoky spatializer plugin i need to upgrade to the FMOD 2.02.29 Implementation. I am running Unity 2020.3.48. Unfortunately I am stuck at the “Update Event References” section. After scanning for [EventRef] with the updater it finds 77 [!] tasks and a…

Yes you will need to manually change all the [EventRef] yourself, the Updater will assist in locating all references. https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.03/unity/welcome-whats-new-202.html#eventref-attribute-replaced-with-eventreference-type

That is all “nice ”and good but how (why) do I update scripts that are provided by the FMOD Update? There’s no way of me changing that! I understand that my scripts have to be changed but how do I do that with a FMOD Studio Event Emitter? [Screenshot 2025-08-27 175409]

Thanks for clarifying that this is occurring with the StudioEventEmitter script, that step should be handled by the Event Reference updater but it appears to be stopped by the NullReferenceException you mentioned. Are you able to share your entire editor log file? You can locate this from the edito…

Sorry for coming back to you that late, I managed to change everything but man, the process was a nightmare! I hope the new updates for FMOD will not be breaking ones like this one. The Updater always stopped because of some broken prefabs…so once I updated/deleted them the updater worked as expect…

Good to hear, never do that again please :pleading_face:

FMOD Update fails Unity 2020.3.48

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cameron-fmod September 23, 2025, 3:38am 6

We have some bigger fixes planned for the Reference Updater but I’m unable to give any sort of time frame on them at this point.

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FMOD Update fails Unity 2020.3.48

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