Limbo project does silent upon building a new soundbank

Question

Hi there,
I'm having a go at the Wwise Limbo project, as a personal goal, and I'm having some trouble that I would really appreciate some help with.

I've followed all of the documentation as well as video tutorials, yet when I replace the assets with my own assets (named the same), and rebuild the soundbanks, I hear nothing upon playing the game. Originally, before replacing any assets into the game, I can play and hear everything original as intended. So it seems the soundbanks are not generating properly, even though everything is ticked. I can audition the sounds perfectly fine, but they just won't play in game.

It seems to be related to this known issue, which doesn't have any resolution comments: https://www.audiokinetic.com/qa/4268/generate-soundbank-in-the-sample-project-limbo

I have tried moving the project out of the default file path, and have made sure all of the files are not 'read-only'. The Wwise version is 2022.1.0. When I tick all banks that I want to build, it also does not update the I_intro or I_testbank soundbanks even though they're ticked (telling me their data size and decoded size is 0, whereas the I_default data size is 77040 and decoded size 250740).

Any help would be appreciated as there seems to be no help surrounding this issue :( thank you.

Best,

Abbie

Answer 1

Hey Abbie, 

Sorry to hear you're having problems with getting sound into Limbo.  
I just tried to follow your instructions, and it does work fine on my end.

To clarify what I did, here are a few steps.

1. Downloaded Limbo with Wwise 2022.1.0
2. Launcher > Samples > Open in Wwise
3. Drag a "long" sound file into Default Work Unit (to ensure it does not inherit all the Limbo-specific mechanisms with RTPC, etc.)
4. Made sure it's sending to Master Audio Bus (to ensure no effect changes)
5. Added the SFX to the intro > menuIntroStart Event. 
6. Generated SoundBanks
7. Launcher > Sampels > Run Limbo.
8. Your imported SFX should play once the game starts.  

I would suggest you try this too, cause Limbo does use both Game Syncs and Event Actions with fades that might influence whether the sound(s) are audible. 

Answer 2

Hi Abbie,

I had the same issue with version 2022.1.4 of Wwise. The steps suggested by Mads did not do the trick for me. I noticed the error "Event ID not found" for every sound in the Profiler but I did not know how to solve this.

I decided to try out an older version 2021.1.13 of Wwise and with this version I was able to generate SoundBanks succesfully.

Best, Tom