The Wwise Project Adventure

We now have the individual daytime nature sound types randomizing and summed together within a blend container. Next, we'll introduce user-defined 3D positioning in order to give the soundscape some life.

After selecting one of the containers of elements, you can make changes in the Positioning tab of the Property Editor. By changing the position source from the default Game-defined to User-defined, you can access the Position Editor where you can author to determine user-defined playback position of sounds. This technique is used to enable positional movement for static sounds and also to add positional randomness to the ambient elements that have been prepared.

Setting up user defined positioning for ambient elements

Multiple paths can be created that can be followed or randomized to simulate the effect of having many individual sounds coming from different directions.

Defining where sounds will play according to speaker placement using the Position Editor

The ambient day and night elements included in the accompanying project have been created using user-defined 3D positioning and can be referenced for further insight into this technique.