Question Why is there no sound when I fire the projectile?

I'm trying to create a space shooting game, where the player has to shoot the asteroid.

I want a sound effect to be played, whenever the player presses the spacebar to fire a projectile. So, I have tried to create a script, but it doesn't seem to work?

Weirdly enough, it seems to work when I fire a projectile that doesn't hit the asteroid.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class AudioManager : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     [Header("-------- Audio Source -------")]
8.  
9.     [SerializeField] AudioSource musicSource;
10.     [SerializeField] AudioSource SFXSource;
11.  
12.     [Header("-------- Audio Clip ---------")]
13.  
14.     public AudioClip shoot;
15.     public AudioClip music;
16.  
17.     private void Start()
18.     {
19.         musicSource.clip = music;
20.         musicSource.Play();
21.     }
22.  
23.     public void PlaySFX(AudioClip clip)
24.     {
25.         SFXSource.PlayOneShot(clip);
26.     }
27. }
28.  

 

What is calling

PlaySFX()

?

 

I'm not sure, I was following this tutorial.

Also, would it be easier to work with if I made two scripts, one for music and one for sound effects?

 

I'm not watching a 10 minute video to see where you went wrong. If you're saying "I'm not sure" then you need to go through it again and make sure you didn't skip that part.

 

Oh, so that's one of the idiot tutorial creators that is introducing

Find

. If he's making similar choices throughout his tutorials I'm not at all surprised it's difficult to follow. If you have to use

Find

it's an indicator in almost every case that you've done something wrong.

We need to see the classes that are trying to call

PlaySFX

.

 

I found the culprit. The problem was, that the projectile would hit the asteroid almost immediately after being fired and then disappear, before the sound effect could be played. I tried slowing down the speed of the projectile, and the sound effect plays now.

 

Unity's

Find

methods are a newbie trap. They're extremely brittle (ie prone to mistakes) and they're very slow depending on which ones you're using. The sky is the limit with performance concerns. I've seen as slow as seconds on a 5950X (MSRP $799 USD) for a single call. Mobile (and most hardware) is far slower than my CPU.

 

If you have questions about a tutorial, contact the creator of the tutorial. Not here.
Closed.

 

Ugh. As @Ryiah pointed out, that is a terrible "tutorial". Very bad practices. Use the official tutorials no randos from the internet.