How to load third-party plugins

FMOD Engine
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I have successfully used the “Resonance Audio” plugin in my Fmod Studio project and packaged it as a bank.
But when loading in my C++API project, I encountered a problem.
I thought copying ‘resonanceaudio. dll’ to the same directory as exe would solve this problem, but he still reported an error.
The error is as follows:
[WRN] PluginEffectModel::init : Missing DSP plugin ‘Resonance Audio Listener’
[ERR] PostLoad::initPluginEffects : DSP plugin returned an error, bank will not load properly.
I couldn’t find the plugin, but later I discovered function “loadPlugin” and “registerPlugin”.
May I ask how I should use them? Besides these, what else do I need to do to successfully use plugins in my project.
Thank you.

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Hi,

Correct, you will need to call System::loadPlugin() using the directory location of the resonanceaudio.dll as the first argument:

coreSystem->loadPlugin("C:\\Program Files\\FMOD SoundSystem\\FMOD Studio 2.02.18\\plugins\\resonanceaudio.dll", &handle);

The handle is just an unsigned int. As you have assigned the DSP in FMOD Studio you will not have to call System::createDSPByPlugin or System::setOutputByPlugin.
Remember to call System::unloadPlugin (FMOD Engine | Core API Reference - System) using the handle you created when loading the plugin at the end of your program.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you, I will try it later.
What is the use of registerPlugin in the Fmod Studio API? It seems that the parameters are quite complex.

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Hi,

registerPlugin allows you to define DSP functionality via code in the FMOD_DSP_DESCRIPTION to then be used by the FMOD system. That is why it is so complex, it allows for user-defined DSP effects (FMOD Engine | Plugin API reference - DSP)

Hope this helps!