Is there a way to access the Object Color in Code?

Question

We are looking to use the Object Color in Wwise to have a quick view of the State of our VO Lines. We want to be able to match the Object Color of the VO Files State at the Import.

Example : Robot VO will be tag as Red, Temp as Yellow, and Final at Green...

Is there an actual way to do that without doing it manually in wwise?

Answer 1

Yes, but it requires some hacking and/or programming skills

• Edit: [INSTALL_DIR]\Authoring\Data\WObjects\WObjects.xml     
• Search for "OverrideColor"
• Change the IsVisible to "true", like this:

<Property Name="OverrideColor" Type="bool" IsVisible="true" DisplayName="Override Color">
    <DefaultValue>false</DefaultValue>
</Property>

• Restart Wwise

Then, use the Tab Delimited Import or WAAPI ak.wwise.core.audio.import:

Tab Delimited (https://www.audiokinetic.com/library/edge/?source=Help&id=importing_media_files_from_tab_delimited_text_file)

Import a TSV that set the Color and OverrideColor properties: (replace the arrow by actual TAB character)

Audio File→Object Path→Object Type→@Color→@OverrideColor
D:\wave\cues\1.wav→\Actor-Mixer Hierarchy\Default Work Unit\1→Sound→10→true
D:\wave\cues\2.wav→\Actor-Mixer Hierarchy\Default Work Unit\2→Sound→7→true
D:\wave\cues\3.wav→\Actor-Mixer Hierarchy\Default Work Unit\3→Sound→0→false

WAAPI Import

Getting started with WAAPI:
https://www.audiokinetic.com/library/edge/?source=SDK&id=waapi_gettingstarted.html

Importing Audio File with WAAPI:
https://www.audiokinetic.com/library/edge/?source=SDK&id=waapi_import.html

Also look at this example to retrieve the colors from WAAPI. 
https://gist.github.com/decasteljau/0555a2afe97914658820ebd1bc4af6d4

Comments

By the way, the fix for WObjects.xml has been scheduled for Wwise 2019.2.8.