No sound at the end of WWise 101 lesson 1

Question

I am not going for certification, only to learn the program, so the fact that I'm using a later version than advised for compatibility shouldn't matter so much. I am on about the fifth try, and I'm sure that the problem is at the integration stage. So here are some comments:

1. screen five of Adding an Event: In the lower right view... it is implied by the previous screenshot that  I have the Audio panel open and Actor-Mixer Hierarchy/IceGem_Blast selected. I chased around over  these five attempts to find this, and it turns out that I should have switched to the Soundbanks tab in Project Explorer.

2. Generating Soundbanks: the tool layout has changed, I guess. There is no User Settings button, instead the yellow gear icon at the top right of the Soundbank Manager window has User Soundbank Settings as an option. Also, where the lesson says "selected", the manager says "checked" -- ambiguous, since checked can mean verified as well as selected.

At some point I realized that whatever is supposed to happen, it is supposed to happen where I deleted the Soundbanks folder as instructed earlier in the lesson. (In fact after a couple of attempts I thought to rename it instead, so that I'd remember where it was meant to be.) So...

The Generating a Soundbank page instructs me to navigate to the ...\cube\cube folder. I assumed, now on my fifth try, that Wwise would create the folder. In fact, I have to create a folder named Soundbanks and then select that. Once I did that, success! I now have a Soundbanks folder in the right place... but it does not contain the hierarchies that the original renamed folder has -- it is missing the Windows subfolder. Windows and English is checked in Soundbank Manager as it should be.

Comments

I was having this same problem, but on a MAC. I realized I deleted the "Mac" folder inside the "soundbanks" folder. After I uninstalled Wwise and Cube and then reinstalled everything, I went through the lesson again and this time I only deleted the contents inside the "Mac" folder and not the folder itself. This worked. Maybe that's your issue on the Windows machine as well?

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That worked for me, too! I suggest that instead of manually moving everything to that "Mac" folder, when you generate the Soundbank click on the User Soundbank Settings, then at the three dots in the Mac line, navigate to this Mac folder within the Soundbank folder. I'm assuming that in the following lessons, everything will work smoothly with subsequent Soundbank saves with this new path locked in. I really wish they would have corrected this in the Lesson, though!!!! So many hours struggling . . .

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I found that you have to create a folder called Windows (or Mac if you are on Mac) and then select that folder to generate the soundbank and then Cube will run the files. For some reason it doesn't generate the Windows folder/Mac Folder on it's own

Answer 1

I agree with Dan O. I was also having trouble (Mac) and made sure not to delete the "Mac" folder, but only the contents inside. This worked.