Help with making settings menu using FMOD?

DISCLAIMER: FMOD is new to me and therefore, I am not particularly experienced in it, What I've learned to code of it so far has mostly been from threads in the 'QA' forums and a few YouTube tutorials (and yes, the documentation as well, although... It isn't exactly as expansive as the Unity Documentation, which is honestly a tad frustrating.

EDIT: I am using Unity 2019.1f with the latest version of the FMOD Integration, hopefully, this helps clarify things a little bit.

Anyway: I've been trying to improve the quality of my game audio by using the FMOD Unity Integration, I have a settings menu that controls the video settings (resolution, post-processing effects and such), And a section dedicated to reconfiguring the Audio, ya know.. Music, SFX, Ambient, Master.. things like that.

In addition, I have a playlist controlling the music on the title screen (a Multi-Instrument event around 41 minutes long, containing about 10 songs, set to loop when the playlist is done, sequential order) However: I really want to be able to skip the currently playing song and have the ability to go to the previous song (when applicable)

There's a problem with all of this.

Currently, the audio slider doesn't really do ANYTHING...they're a lot more like visual eye-candy than useful user interface elements. This is an undesired behavior.

NOTE: The audio sliders should be controlling the volume of their respective bus, Master being the exception: as it should control all buses at the same time.

If it helps any; I'm currently following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgVKR6PMq

(code below)
AudioSettings.cs

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class AudioSettings : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     FMOD.Studio.EventInstance seTestEvent;
8.  
9.     FMOD.Studio.Bus Master;
10.     FMOD.Studio.Bus Bgm;
11.     FMOD.Studio.Bus Se;
12.     float bgmVolume = 0.5f;
13.     float seVolume = 0.5f;
14.     float masterVolume = 1f;
15.  
16.     void Awake()
17.     {
18.         Bgm = FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.GetBus("bus:/Master/Bgm");
19.         Se = FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.GetBus("bus:/Master/Se");
20.         Master = FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.GetBus("bus:/Master");
21.         seTestEvent = FMODUnity.RuntimeManager.CreateInstance("event:/sfx/mouseclick");
22.     }
23.  
24.     void Update()
25.     {
26.         Bgm.setVolume(bgmVolume);
27.         Se.setVolume(seVolume);
28.         Master.setVolume(masterVolume);
29.     }
30.  
31.     public void MasterVolumeLevel(float newMasterVolume)
32.     {
33.         masterVolume = newMasterVolume;
34.     }
35.  
36.     public void BgmVolumeLevel(float newBgmVolume)
37.     {
38.         bgmVolume = newBgmVolume;
39.     }
40.  
41.     public void SeVolumeLevel(float newSeVolume)
42.     {
43.         seVolume = newSeVolume;
44.  
45.         FMOD.Studio.PLAYBACK_STATE pbState;
46.         seTestEvent.getPlaybackState(out pbState);
47.         if (pbState != FMOD.Studio.PLAYBACK_STATE.PLAYING)
48.         {
49.             seTestEvent.start();
50.         }
51.     }
52. }

 

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Can't replicate, check with a Debug.Log() if your values are changing when moving the slider. Probably you just forgot to select the dynamic float parameter:



If not check what Bus.setVolume returns. It should return OK:

Code (CSharp):

1.     void Update()
2.     {
3.      var result = bus.setVolume(busVolume);
4.      Debug.Log(result);
5.     }

Regarding your second question, you can't do that with a multi instrument. Try to create an Event with a Skip and Back parameter and skip return to songs with transition regions with conditions based on these parameters:



Another option is to have one Event per song and manage a playlist with code in Unity.

 

apologies for the late reply, man. thanks for your help! this ultimately got the playlist working.