Is it practical to instantiate sound prefabs? :)

So, yeah, the title says what iam thinking. So Is it PRACTICAL to instantiate sound prefabs? Because i usually do it.

-Thanks!

 

Yeah, I guess it is. I don't really see anything impractical about it.

 

Well I don't know exactly what you call a "sound prefab" but if it is what I think it is, then depends, if your game is like a FPS or a 3rD person shooter where the location of the sound source matters then ok, if is something like a 2D game then there is absolutely no reason to have more than one sound source.

I usually use a singleton as a "sound Manager" which holds all the sounds and music of the game and also plays and listen them, which I can call with a single line of code from any script.

 

It does matter for a 2D game; you'd want sounds coming from objects on the right to actually come from the right, for example.

--Eric

 

But that would enter in my description of games where the location of the sound source matters , but anyways I have done tons of 2D platformers and never needed to have sounds playing from anywhere but if you really want to have that feature then ok, I don't.

 

Well, by saying sound prefab i mean whenever i use sound i instantiate a copy of the sound I wanna now, will it make the game run slower or not? Im creating a mobile game btw.

 

You mean like for example if you had a gun in the game every time you fire the gun you instantiate a sound with its own source and everything? don't do that, instead have the gun have its own audio source and and use PlayOneShot() to play the sound like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. public AudioClip GunSound;
2. ....
3. //To play the sound
4. audio.PlayOneShot(GunSound);

 

Oh okay, i tried it and it works perfectly, plus its better. Now i will always use audio.PlayOneShot. Thanks man!