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[name]

The name of the object.

Displays the object's color. Clicking the icon opens the color selector.

Select a color to apply it to the object. When you choose a color for an object, a palette icon appears on the selected square, as well as a yellow triangle in the lower-right corner, as shown.

To inherit the parent object's color, select the square at the far left of the color selector.

Controls the Mute and Solo states for the object and shows the implicit mute and solo states for the object.

Muting an object silences this object for the current monitoring session. Soloing an object silences all the other objects in the project except this one.

A bold M or S indicates that the Mute or Solo state has been explicitly set for the object. A non-bold M or S with faded color indicates that the object's Mute or Solo state was implicitly set from another object's state.

Muting an object implicitly mutes the descendant objects.

Soloing an object implicitly mutes the sibling objects and implicitly solos the descendant and ancestor objects.

	Tip
	Hold the Ctrl key while clicking a solo button to exclusively solo the object for which the solo button is associated.

	Note
	Mute and Solo are designed to be used for monitoring purposes only and are not persisted in the project or stored in the SoundBanks.

Indicates the number of elements in your project that contain direct references to the object. The icon is displayed in orange when references to the object exist, and in gray when no references exist.

Selecting the button opens the Reference View with the object's name in the References to: field.

Notes

Any additional information about the object properties.

Sets the display of the Property Editor's selected tabs. By default, there is one panel that displays a single selected tab. You can, however, click a splitter button to display two panels, divided horizontally or vertically. The selected option is highlighted with a background color.

You cannot open the same tab in both panels. If you try to open the same tab in both panels, the first panel automatically opens a different tab.

	Tip
	Press Ctrl and the number that corresponds to the number of the Property Editor tab you want to view. For example, Ctrl+4 opens the RTPC tab if it is the fourth visible tab.

Center %

The amount or percentage of volume that is passed through the center speaker.

	Tip
	For more information on using the Center %, refer to Routing Audio Signals to the Center Speaker .

Default value: 0

Range: 0 to 100

Speaker Panning

The default is Direct Assignment, where FL maps to FL, FR maps to FR, and so on.

If set to Balance-Fade, allows you to adjust the volume of each channel in a 2.0 to 7.1 Audio Bus. In reference to the Speaker Panner, channels closer to the circle will have their volume increased, while channels further from the circle will have their volume decreased.

If set to Steering, allows you to redistribute the content of the sound’s channels amongst the channels of the output bus. The distribution will be weighted towards the circle in the Speaker Panner.

The Panner works independently of the number of channels within the source.

	Note
	The Panner has no effect on an ambisonic sound.

Default value: Direct Assignment

Opens the Speaker Panner.

Listener Relative Routing

When enabled, the emitter-listener association is evaluated at this Wwise object. Evaluating emitter-listener association is almost always required with objects of the Actor-Mixer Hierarchy, because Actor-Mixers are associated with emitters, whereas busses are typically associated with the listener.

In the case of busses, listener relative routing is only desirable when the submix conveyed by this bus represents an independent emitter which needs to be explicitly positioned by the game and 3D spatialized against the listener. Notable use cases are the Auxiliary Busses associated to Rooms by Wwise Spatial Audio and the early reflection bus hosting the Reflect plug-in.

Make sure to enable Listener Relative Routing on at least one object in your signal chain, regardless of the positioning type; the opposite would result in a complete duplication of the mixing graph (that is, busses and their Effects). Aside from using more CPU, most bus insert Effects, such as compressors, will not work as intended.

Evaluating emitter-listener association is also required for any game object-driven 3D positioning to occur (attenuation and spatialization).

3D Spatialization

Specifies whether the positioning of the source is calculated to simulate movement within a 3D space. When set to Position or Position + Orientation, movement of the source is reflected by a sound being heard through specific speakers within the surround environment. With Position + Orientation, the sound’s multichannel content also rotates with respect to the relative orientations of the emitter and listener. Orientation only has an effect with multichannel input files, and spread greater than zero.

When set to None, the source is panned according to the Speaker Panning setting.

Default value: None

Speaker Panning / 3D Spatialization Mix

Crossfade between Speaker Panning and 3D Spatialization. Available when spatialization is anything but None.

Default value: 100

Range: 0 to 100

Enable Attenuation

When set, the attenuation curves of the designated Attenuation ShareSet apply. You may add an RTPC on this property to enable and disable the application of attenuation curves at run-time.

Default value: true

(Selector)

The list of attenuation instances that can be applied to the object.

To remove an attenuation instance, select the None option.

Opens the Attenuation Editor where you can define the distance-based attenuation settings for the selected attenuation instance.

If you use a ShareSet, any changes you make to the attenuation settings will be applied to all objects using this ShareSet.

Mode

Determines whether the attenuation instance is a unique instance or shared across several objects within your project. The mode can be either:

Displays the selected ShareSet in the ShareSets tab of the Project Explorer.

Position

3D Position

Defines how positions are calculated for the purpose of 3D positioning (attenuation and spatialization).

	Note
	Wwise Spatial Audio features are limited for sounds that use Emitter + Automation. Diffraction and Transmission processing is disabled for sounds that use Emitter + Automation. Furthermore, the automation offset does not apply to early reflection processing. Reflections are calculated using the base Game Object position.

	Note
	Wwise Spatial Audio features are disabled for sounds that use Listener + Automation. This includes early reflection processing, diffraction and transmission, and room sends.

Default value: Emitter

Opens the Position Editor (3D Automation), where you can define the spatial positioning of your object in a surround environment using animation paths.

Hold Listener Orientation

Determines whether the position of the animation path is locked to the orientation of the listener.

When this option is not selected, the path moves with the listener. This means that the sound will always be heard through the same speakers regardless of the orientation of the listener. When selected, the listener moves independently of the path. This means that the sound will be heard through different speakers as the listener turns around.

For example, let’s say you are using automation around the listener to create non-localized bird sounds in your game. You have a one-point path that is located in the front-right quadrant. As the listener turns around in game, the following will occur:

This option can be useful for creating non-localized ambient sounds.

This option can only be tested in game because the listener concept has not been integrated into the Wwise authoring application.

Default value: false

Hold Emitter Position and Orientation

When enabled, stores the game object’s instantaneous position and orientation when the sound starts playing, and base positioning off of it for the whole duration of the sound.

	Note
	Wwise Spatial Audio features are disabled for sounds that enable Hold Emitter Position and Orientation. This includes early reflection processing, diffraction and transmission, and room sends.

Default value: false

Diffraction and Transmission

Enables diffraction and transmission processing in Spatial Audio for the sound.

Diffraction simulates the acoustic phenomenon of sound bending around obstacles, whereas transmission simulates sound passing through obstacles, in a virtual environment. Obstacles are defined by rooms, portals, and/or geometry, which have been passed from the game to Spatial Audio via the API. A sound bending around an obstacle is subject to diffraction, and a sound passing through an obstacle is subject to transmission loss, both of which effect the resulting volume and filtering of a sound.

For diffraction and transmission simulation to take place, the game must define level geometry or rooms and portals and send it to Wwise Spatial Audio.

When diffraction and transmission are enabled for a sound, the following takes place in Wwise Spatial Audio:

	Note
	The Game Object 3D Viewer enables the user to see what is going on inside of Wwise Spatial Audio, including level geometry, portals, and the sound’s diffraction/transmission paths and resultant virtual positions.

	Note
	For Diffraction and Transmission to take effect, the Wwise Spatial Audio library must be initialized and the game must send level geometry or rooms and portals to Wwise Spatial Audio.

Default value: false