How to Use Locale Audio

[woong_thg]

I referred to the manual and forum posts to create three audio folders for English, Korean, and Japanese, and loaded them into the Audio Table.

I want to play three shuffled voice clips through Unreal’s Animation Notify every time a character jumps.

However, after creating a multi-instrument and dragging the audio from the Audio Table into it, no sound is played.

Can the audio from the Audio Table only be played through a programmer instrument? then How can I play the audio from the Audio Table using Animation Notify? I’d like to know the method.

[woong_thg]

Also, when I try to drag and drop the Audio Table sound into a programmer event, it doesn’t work.

[Connor_FMOD]

Hi,

Thank you for the images.

When working with programmer instruments, they need a key to know which audio file to play.

I will suggest having a look at our programmer example included with the FMOD Engine: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FMOD SoundSystem\FMOD Studio API Windows\api\studio\examples\programmer_sound.cpp"

We also have an example using programmer instruments in Unreal here: Unreal Integration | User Guide - Programmer Sounds via Audio Tables

To trigger a different audio file each time, you would randomize the key that is passed to the programmer instrument.

Hope this helps!

[woong_thg]

I have gone through numerous videos and sample projects, but I still don’t fully understand FMOD’s Audio Table.

Yesterday, I got access to the entire FMOD project of the game War Thunder and analyzed it. However, this game also does not use FMOD’s Locale or Audio Table; instead, it manually creates thousands of multilingual voice events.

I have a few simple questions:

1. When I drag an Audio Table sound (key) onto the timeline, a Programmer Instrument is created, but when I play it in FMOD, no sound is heard, and no waveform is displayed. Is this the expected behavior?

2. Could you provide a sample project that includes an Audio Table with some voice files and a working instrument event? If not, please let me know the correct node in Blueprints that can play a key vo_jump or a Programmer Instrument.

Please help me!! I don’t want to manually create thousands of multilingual voice events.

[woong_thg]

This screenshot is from the FMOD project of the game War Thunder. I don’t think I can go this far.

ADX2 Tutorial 27 - Dialogue localization
The above is a multilingual voice tutorial for ADX2 middleware, which is widely used in Japan. It’s intuitive and easy to understand right away. However, I’m not sure how FMOD handles multilingual voice processing.

[Connor_FMOD]

Thank you for the inforamtion

@woong_thg

When I drag an Audio Table sound (key) onto the timeline, a Programmer Instrument is created, but when I play it in FMOD, no sound is heard, and no waveform is displayed. Is this the expected behavior?

That is a placeholder audio file:

So it will not be heard when played in FMOD Engine.

@woong_thg

Could you provide a sample project that includes an Audio Table with some voice files and a working instrument event? If not, please let me know the correct node in Blueprints that can play a key vo_jump or a Programmer Instrument.

I will use the example FMOD project that is included with the studio download:

I am using the Dialogue event:

I have built the banks into my UE project:

I have then created an BP actor class to trigger the event and set the programmer instrument key:

This will play any of the 3 goodbye audio files depending on which dialogue banks is loaded.

Hope this helps!