The following sections list and describe the changes to Wwise between version 2024.1.2 and version 2024.1.3.
Platform-specific information can be found here:
For earlier versions, please refer to Previous Release Notes.
New Features
- WG-73102 When opening a project located on a network drive, a message now suggests you use a local drive for the cache folder.
Behavior Changes
- WG-76137 The ProjectDatabase used in Unity is now initialized with the Wwise Project default language if no language is defined in the settings.
- WG-76146 The WAAPI HTTP server now uses keep-alive to improve connection performance.
Bug Fixes
- WG-58528 Fixed: Game Object 3D Viewer Settings subcategories are always fully expanded.
- WG-66113 Fixed: Poor Portal arrow visibility in the Game Object 3D Viewer.
- WG-72864 Fixed: (WAQL) ShortIDs exceeding the maximum signed integer value are not found.
- WG-73891 Fixed: Opening Effects from the Voice Inspector or Voice Graph does not correctly set the metering object.
- WG-75080 Fixed: Errors when trying to set a 3D line width of more than 1 with certain GPUs.
- WG-75217 Fixed: Plug-in attribute
PersistWhenDefault is read incorrectly.
- WG-75628 Fixed: An assert is triggered when double-clicking on an Effect header in the Mixing Desk.
- WG-76076 Fixed: The default size of the Property Editor is different between a docked view and a floating view.
- WG-76107 Fixed: Floating object windows open with a default size that is too small, causing misaligned content.
- WG-76167 Fixed: Nothing happens when clicking the Find in List button in the Transitions tab of a Music Switch Container.
- WG-76168 Fixed: Erroneous debug assert in edge cases when processing AkGeometry boundary edges.
- WG-76169 Fixed: Some cells are shown in lists when they should be hidden by a collapsed parent row.
- WG-76223 Fixed: Crash when deleting objects in List View while the Object Size column is visible.
- WG-76247 Fixed: Deprecated macros are used in plug-in scaffoldings.
- WG-76266 Fixed: Find in List filter is not applied properly when adding items to the List View, showing rows that should not be shown and making rows disappear when expanding them.
- WG-76424 Fixed: (Spatial Audio) Transmission loss discontinuity when transitioning between a Reverb Zone and a parent Room while sufficiently close to a Portal.
- WG-76511 Fixed: Crash when using AkInitSettings.szPluginDLLPath directly inside a custom plug-in.
- WG-76547 Fixed: Possible crash when closing the Conversion Settings Editor.
- WG-76574 Fixed: Assert in StreamMgr when reading SoundBanks with file sizes that are exactly a multiple of the granularity,
AkDeviceSetting.uGranularity.
Fixes for Community-Reported Bugs
- WG-71736 Fixed: Overriding loudness normalization option in an existing Wwise session does not automatically update the played content.
- WG-71881 Fixed: Source and destination objects are lost when copying music transitions to another music container.
- WG-72195 Fixed: Hang when clicking Copy to Clipboard in the Project Load Log dialog when there are more than 250 warnings.
- WG-72427 Fixed: Live-editing the "Bind to Built-In Parameter" value of a Game Parameter causes the RTPC value of the Transport Control game object to reset to 0.
- WG-73189 Fixed: State transition on Music Segments and Music Tracks does not occur at expected synchronization type after opening a Wwise project.
- WG-75320 Fixed: (Spatial Audio) Radii of multipositioned Radial Emitters are still visible in the Game Object 3D Viewer when they are inaudible.
- WG-75517 Fixed: Crash when double-clicking a path in the Entries pane of the Music Switch Editor or Dialogue Event Editor.
- WG-75818 Fixed: (Spatial Audio) Built-In Diffraction RTPC is set to the wrong value on Reverb Zones.
- WG-75837 Fixed: Transmission loss is not applied immediately if load balancing spread is >= 4.
- WG-76016 Fixed: Play - Bypass Properties in Transport Control doesn't work with containers and source plug-ins.
- WG-76165 Fixed: Performance slowdown when clicking a Dialogue Event in the Project Explorer.
- WG-76182 Fixed: Possible crash related to music transitions when migrating a project.
- WG-76208 Fixed: Spatial Audio API calls crash when called before
AK::SoundEngine::Init or after AK::SoundEngine::Term.
- WG-76217 Fixed: (Spatial Audio) Crash when posting a room tone referencing a built-in RTPC immediately after removing a Room or Portal.
- WG-76235 Fixed: Generation of
Wwise_IDs.h file is sometimes incomplete.
- WG-76241 Fixed: Tab delimited import can fail to organize the imported sounds correctly.
- WG-76302 Fixed: Assert when using MIDI to play content inside a continuous container while targetting the note off to be under the same node.
- WG-76342 Fixed: External Source conversion doesn't use Default Conversion Settings ShareSet when no conversion is specified.
- WG-76348 Fixed: Crash when deleting a Random Step or Random Continuous group in the Music Playlist Editor.
- WG-76349 Fixed: Possible crash with original WAV file containing non-XML text in AXML chunk.
- WG-76371 Fixed: Hang on exit of Unreal games if disk streaming errors occured.
- WG-76392 Fixed: Crash in background conversion when Effects are set to render.
- WG-76410 Fixed: Cannot load a plug-in library that does not contain at least one sound engine Source, Effect, or Metadata plug-in.
- WG-76519 Fixed: Possible crash when clicking a checkbox in Property Editor.
- WG-76528 Fixed: (WAAPI) The topic
ak.wwise.core.soundbank.generated returns information for the wrong platform.
- WG-76530 Fixed: (WAAPI) Passing an invalid return option to the
ak.wwise.core.soundbank.generated topic subscription leads to a crash when generating a soundbank.
- WG-76647 Fixed: Connecting to a game that has Blend Containers playing sometimes duplicates the number of sounds playing in the containers, giving the impression that the volume has increased.
Documentation Improvements
- WG-75958 (WAAPI) Added a missing property to documentation on adding a marker to an audio source.
- WG-76248 Added details regarding the Wwise Authoring application's plug-in library format and how registration works since the refactor of the API in Wwise 2021.1.
- WG-76249 Removed rpmalloc from the list of Open Source Components in the Wwise SDK as it is no longer redistributed as a part of the Wwise SDK.