[Unity] How can I prevent the Wwise Application Path from being shared in version control?

Question

Hello everyone!

We are having an issue where two developers have different paths to their Wwise installation, causing a situation where they are having to constantly change their project settings, invalidating the path of the other developer each other. Is there a solution to this?

Thank you! :)

Answer 1

My team struggled with this a bit. Very bad design on Audiokinetic's part.

I ended up removing the WwiseSettings.xml file from the repo and adding it to the .gitignore file. I wrote a script so we have one WwiseSettings.xml in a config directory that gets copied into the project by the build machine before it builds soundbanks. All the developers just have to set up the path settings individually.

However, I do want to mention that eventually I ended up including our wwise install in the directory itself so that I could automate building soundbanks on our build machine. I didn't want to do this but Wwise is a pain to install via command line script. So if all your developers are working on windows machines it might be worth it to just have the wwise binary right in your repo.

Not a great solution but there ya go. If anyone has a more clever solution I'd love to hear it.