Wwise 2010.1 New Features
Wwise 2010.1 is a major release packed with many new exciting features. The following list highlights the major improvements that have been made for this version.
Mixing Desk
- The mixing desk is a new view that display your audio objects in mixer strip style, giving you access, while mixing at runtime, to all practical properties.
- Volume, pitch, LPF, states, effects, attenuations and motion parameters are all available...
Conversion Settings ShareSets
- Now, conversion settings are contained within ShareSets and applied anywhere in the hierarchy which will allow all child objects to automatically inherit the settings of their parent.
- This modification eliminates the frustration (and potential damage) of forgetting to set conversion settings to newly added objects.
- After migrating to 2010.1, you will notice that, at authoring time, your Wwise project should take about:
- 50% less disk space (for work unit files),
- 50% less memory,
- 50% less time to load.
Be sure to take a look at the video tutorial.
External Source
- This new source plug-in bypasses the Wwise SoundBanks generation and allow the game to dynamically associate audio files to Sound objects.
- On top of simplifying the development process for developers, it will also greatly reduce the memory footprint needed for dialogue intensive games.
- The External Source plug-in will also open up several workarounds for game developers including user-generated content.
New Seek event action
- You can now seek anywhere in actor-mixer audio objects or music segment objects.
- Seek time can be randomized and is set either in absolute time or in percentage of the file duration.
- Seek can snap to markers and music cues.
Multiple level of sub-mixing
- Wwise can now have an unlimited number of sub-mix levels in the Master-Mixer hierarchy which virtually allow for an unlimited number of effects processed in series.