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General Tab

In the General tab, you can define the following for your project:

  • Source control plug-in configuration

  • Originals folder location

  • Cache folder location

  • Event creation

  • User interface preferences

Interface Element

Description

Opens a search field where standard alphanumeric entries filter out unmatching elements from the view. Learn more in Using tables.

Click the Close icon to the left of the search icon to close the search field and remove the filter.

[Note]Note

The searches do not include elements in collapsed nodes of the List View, Query Editor, MIDI Keymap Editor, and Reference View.

Right-click the table header to open the Configure Columns dialog where you can specify which columns to display and their order. See Using tables.

Filter Behavior

Voice LPF and HPF behavior

Determines how LPF and HPF property values are calculated.

  • Sum All Values (Default). Property values are added together.

  • Use Highest Value. The highest property value is used.

Refer to Understanding property filter behavior (LPF, HPF).

Source Control

Plug-in

The name of the project source control plug-in. You can select any of the following options:

For more information on what versions are supported by Wwise, refer to Supported Perforce/Subversion versions.

  • No Source Control - If you don't use a source control system to manage your assets and project files.

  • Perforce.

  • Subversion (deprecated): The Subversion option will not appear in the Plug-in list if the version of Subversion you have installed on your workstation is not compatible with the version used to build the source control plug-in.

  • Other Source Control - If you use another source control system for which you created a source control plug-in.

Available when a source control plug-in is selected. Opens the Source Control Plug-in Configuration dialog where you can define the settings for the plug-in, including Use Audiokinetic Wave Viewer to diff WAV files. Refer to Wwise Wave Viewer.

Show source control file status in user interface

Enables file status queries to the source control plug-in to show the source control status and owner.

When enabled, it shows:

  • The Work Units status icons

  • The Work Units status and owner in the views' titlebar tooltips

  • The Wwise project (WPROJ) status and owner in Wwise's title bar

Disable this option when experiencing performance issues with the source control plug-in or server.

Prompt for checkout on edit

If enabled, modifying files under source control that are not checked out, will immediately trigger the Pending Source Control Operations dialog. This dialog prompts you to checkout the modified files.

If disabled, the prompt to checkout modified files will not open until you attempt to save the Wwise project.

Original Audio Files

Use project's location

Specifies the location where the project's originals media files folder will be saved. This path can be relative to the project's directory or absolute. The default location is "Originals".

Opens the Browse for Folder dialog where you can navigate to the location you want to store the original media files.

[Note]Note

When selecting a file with the browse button, Wwise will automatically resolve the path to a relative path (from the Project) if possible.

Override location for current user

Specifies a new location for the current user only. This path can be relative to the project's directory or absolute.

This is useful in the following types of situations:

  • You temporarily do not have access to the Originals folder.

  • You do not have permission to alter the contents of the Originals folder.

  • You need to create a temporary location for your Originals folder without changing the location of the project's Originals folder.

Opens the Browse for Folder dialog where you can navigate to a new location for storing the original media files for the current user.

[Note]Note

When selecting a file with the browse button, Wwise will automatically resolve the path to a relative path (from the Project) if possible.

Cached Audio Files

Use project's location

Specifies the location where the project's cache files folder will be saved. This path can be relative to the project's directory or absolute. The default location is ".cache".

Opens the Browse for Folder dialog where you can navigate to the location where you want to store your project cache files.

[Note]Note

When selecting a file with the browse button, Wwise will automatically resolve the path to a relative path (from the Project) if possible.

Override location for current user

Specifies a new location for the current user only. This path can be relative to the project's directory or absolute.

This is useful in the following types of situations:

  • You temporarily do not have access to the cache folder.

  • You do not have permission to alter the contents of the cache folder.

  • You need to create a temporary location for your cache folder without changing the location of the project's cache folder.

Opens the Browse for Folder dialog where you can navigate to a new location for storing your project's cache files for the current user.

[Note]Note

When selecting a file with the browse button, Wwise will automatically resolve the path to a relative path (from the Project) if possible.

Event Creation

The Event Creation settings determine the name given to a newly created event.

  • Define settings for project - Event Creation settings are specified for the project.

  • Override settings for current user - Event Creation settings are specified for the current user only.

Add action name

If enabled, the new Event's Action name is used to create the Event name:

  • set as prefix - The Action name is used as a prefix: <action_name>_<object_name>.

  • set as suffix - The Action name is used as a suffix: <object_name>_<action_name>.

Modify case

If enabled, the case of the new Event's name is set to:

  • all lowercase - The new Event's name is all lowercase.

  • all uppercase - The new Event's name is all uppercase.

User Interface

Project color

Clicking the icon opens the color selector.

Select a color to apply it to the Wwise menu band for this project.

[Note]Note

Selecting the square at the far left of the color selector causes the object to inherit its parent's color. When a color has been explicitly chosen for an object, it is displayed with the palette icon and a yellow triangle in the lower-right corner, as shown.

Saved Files

Line Ending

Specifies the line endings in the following files:

  • the project file: .wproj

  • the project settings file: .wsettings

  • Work Unit files: .wwu

  • Wwise_IDS.h

  • SoundBank files:

    • bank, event, and bus files: .xml, .json, .txt

    • ProjectInfo.xml, ProjectInfo.json

    • PlatformInfo.xml, Platform.json

    • SoundbanksInfo.xml, SoundbanksInfo,json

    • PluginInfo.xml, PluginInfo.json

Options are:

Closes the Project Settings dialog and saves your settings.

Closes the Project Settings dialog without saving your settings.


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