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In Wwise, when you define your sound properties for a particular platform in your project, these properties are set across all active platforms by default. These properties are said to be linked across platforms. This streamlines creating projects across platforms. But, if you want to customize the properties for a specific platform you can unlink its properties, and define the properties that you want. When you unlink properties, the link indicator becomes orange.

When you are defining the properties for your platforms, you can easily tell if the properties are unlinked on another platform. The link/unlink indicator will be partly orange indicating that it is partially unlinked.

	Note
	To link the properties again, right-click the property indicator and select Link in the shortcut menu.

In Wwise, an object can have multiple sources. By default, an object uses the same source when it is played across platforms. However, you can specify different sources for each platform by unlinking the sources in the Contents Editor. The source that you have selected will be used when the SoundBank is generated for that platform.

	Note
	For voice sound objects, you can unlink the source Use property separately for each language in your project.

For example, let's say the characters in your fighting game have been given different names depending on which platform the game will be played. The hero of your game was originally named Max, but that character has been renamed Arthur on Windows. Certain voice sound objects would therefore contain two different audio sources, each a nearly identical line of dialogue mentioning a different name. You could unlink the sound object Use property in the Windows version so that the sound object in that version would use Arthur's lines instead of Max's.

When you are defining which sources will be used for your platforms, you can use the link/unlink indicator to check each source's status. When a source is unlinked on the current platform, the link/unlink indicator is completely orange. However, when the source is unlinked on another platform, the indicator is partly orange.

	Note
	To link the source Use property again, right-click the property indicator and select Link from the shortcut menu.

When you are developing your audio, you need to keep in mind the memory requirements for the game and for the game platform. You also need to consider which platforms can adequately handle certain assets. To optimize each platform you may need to include or exclude certain objects. When you have excluded an object, that object is not included in the SoundBanks that are generated for that platform.

You can decide to include or exclude a specific object, folder, Event Action, or language from a platform using the inclusion check boxes found in many different Wwise views, including the following:

After you have decided which objects to include or exclude, you can audition your platform-specific audio in the Transport Control. You can also use the Soundcaster and the Game Profiler to help decide which objects to include or exclude in a platform. For more information about profiling and simulations, refer to the following sections:

	Tip
	You can select multiple elements at the same time to include or exclude elements in one step.

Since your Wwise project contains all active platform versions, you can easily switch from one platform to another at any point in the development cycle. For example, you might be developing on more than one platform simultaneously, and you want to systematically define a specific object property for each platform. After you have switched platforms, the current platform version is displayed.

	Note
	Only platforms added to the project are displayed in the Platform Selector list. For information on adding a platform, see Managing platforms.

Since Wwise allows platform-specific editing in your project, at some point you may want to copy these settings from one platform to another. For example, if you have been working on two platforms for some time and are now ready to add a third one, you might want to start with a copy of one of the platforms you have already customized.

The Copy Platform Settings dialog, accessed through the Platform Manager, lets you do just that. Simply specify the source and target platforms, and Wwise will copy over all platform-specific settings from the source to the target platform.

	Note
	Platform settings are distinct from the Base Platform. Once the latter is selected for a platform, it does not change. If you need a new Base Platform, then you will have to create a new platform.

When a setting is unlinked on the source platform, it is unlinked and copied to the target platform. When a setting is linked on the source platform but unlinked on the target platform, it is relinked on the target platform.