Resolved Sound not working

So i've gotten a problem recently where i can't play sounds, i checked EVERYTHING but i can't figure it out,
if i press on stats in game window it shows me the i have audio level on -74.8 https://prnt.sc/155bjnm
Any help?

 

Check the Game window doesn't have audio muted.

Check Player -> Audio properties have a reasonable volume level.

Check your audio source isn't positional and simply too far from the AudioListener.

 

i did, i really did all of those, no luck tho

 

Still need help

 

How about your mixer is everything ok there?

 

Yes i think my mixer is fine, never really messed around with the mixer

 

bump

 

Make a blank scene, add a camera (which will have an audio listener), drag an audio clip on to the camera, press PLAY.

Assuming you did the steps I listed last week above, then if you don't hear anything, then something else outside of Unity has gone wrong.

OR your audio file is silent. Record another one. Download another one. This shouldn't take more than 2 minutes to suss out.

 

it worked on the new scene, do i just remake the whole scene now?

 

Start by dragging an audio clip onto the camera in your existing scene.

This is just troubleshooting 101 : you have one thing in Timbuctu that doesn't work, you have one thing in Kansas that does work... start moving the two towards each other and as you do you will gain valuable insight and you will eventually either:

1. bring Timbuctu to Kansas and find there IS something mythically wrong with Timbuctu

2. isolate what it is about Timbuctu that doesn't work.

I suspect it will be #2 if you are diligent.

ALSO: it is a lot easier to work rapidly and destructively with this stuff when you are using source control, because you can trivially with a single click revert ALL experiments back to where you were when you started.

Personally I use git because it is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up.

As far as configuring Unity to play nice with git, keep this in mind:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/prefab-links-keep-getting-dumped-on-git-pull.646600/#post-7142306

Here's how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/2-steps-backwards.965048/#post-6282497

Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/whe...grammer-example-in-text.1048739/#post-6783740

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/your-techniques-to-share-code-between-projects.575959/#post-3835837

Setting up the right .gitignore file:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/removing-il2cpp_cache-from-project.1084607/#post-6997067

Generally setting Unity up (includes above .gitignore concepts):

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-git-with-unity

 

oh nice thanks, i'll move my project to git, and i will try and do the thing you asked me to and i will come back and see if it's fixed

 

the reason on why it didn't work is so stupid, so basically right i had this piece of code "gunSound.pitch = Random.Range(-1, 1);"
and for some reason it made all sounds in the game not work
i really wanna know why
didn't even produce an error, just sounds not working

 

dammit i just figured out that i didn't specify that it's a float so it was always 0 or -1 which wouldn't produce sound at all

 

Yup, I've made that error. I think the most recent time was about a month ago on a fuel gauge... it would calculate percentage full based on dividing one integer by the other, so it would be 0 or 1, which I fed to the filled image percentage.

That's why it's super useful to just rip everything out and start a fresh scene, get to something you know works, then start bisecting, trying stuff, even making notes of what you're trying to keep track of the circle of "I know this part works, something ELSE is rotten!"

 

I see, thanks for the help

 

Just in case someone else is searching for this problem, this is what happened to me: I use a Focusrite soundcard, which have extremely unstable drivers. It just crashed and had to be reconnected to fix all audio in Unity. What gave it away was YouTube also not working.