# Is there a way to fade out other events & mixer groups according to relative distance while maintaining volumes at that distance?

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**Created:** [March 14, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-fade-out-other-events-mixer-groups-according-to-relative-distance-while-maintaining-volumes-at-that-distance/18513 "2022-03-14T19:50:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrewKski0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/drewkski0/32/1775_2.png) [@DrewKski0](https://qa.fmod.com/u/DrewKski0)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-fade-out-other-events-mixer-groups-according-to-relative-distance-while-maintaining-volumes-at-that-distance/18513/1 "2022-03-14T19:50:31Z")

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Hey there greater minds than mine,

Here’s a scenario:

There are multiple actors in the game world; some are AI and some are other players via online & splitscreen multiplayer.

- Player A (let’s say this is you) is roaming around, doing its thing.
- Player B (an AI or online player in this instance) picks up an item that gives it a status effect with a musical jingle that lasts for the full duration of the status effect. For the Player who picks this item up, there’s a snapshot which cuts music to allow the jingle to play cleanly.
- As Player A approaches Player B, ambient music fades out for Player A and Player B’s status effect jingle increases as Player A gets closer.
- As Player A retreats, Player B’s status effect jingle decreases in volume and ambient music comes back in.

I’m not sure if this is a job for the AHDSR; I want the fading in & out to maintain their values, for example if Player A is 10 arbitrary units away and stays there, the volumes would potentially be split 50/50 between Player B’s status jingle and Player A’s ambient music.

How might I go about doing this? I’m open to any and all suggestions, as this scenario is likely to be repeated with different items in our game. While I don’t know code myself, there are people on the team I can give that info to if required.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Alcibiade](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/alcibiade/32/4284_2.png) [@Alcibiade](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Alcibiade)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-fade-out-other-events-mixer-groups-according-to-relative-distance-while-maintaining-volumes-at-that-distance/18513/2 "2022-03-14T22:21:46Z")

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You may want something like that:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/y5EgWQMf-Lw/maxresdefault.jpg "Snapshot automated on distance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5EgWQMf-Lw)

The jingle event also plays a snapshot which ducks the BGM bus, and the snapshot’s intensity is automated on the distance built-in parameter.

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**Author:** ![DrewKski0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/drewkski0/32/1775_2.png) [@DrewKski0](https://qa.fmod.com/u/DrewKski0)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-fade-out-other-events-mixer-groups-according-to-relative-distance-while-maintaining-volumes-at-that-distance/18513/3 "2022-03-14T22:29:04Z")

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This is exactly what I needed - thank you!