Unity: Loading Banks and Playing Sound without Wwise Project

Question

Apologies if this has been definitively answered, but I've only seen some unsolved Qs through searching the website.

I want to provide team members with built banks without the need for them to have the entire Wwise project files. They will only be hearing the sound, not implementing. Those who need implementation power (using the picker, etc) I can provide the project. This is single platform Windows, and I've already exported the banks into the proper StreamingAssets folder within the unity project. However, I still (like others seemingly) get "Event Not Found" and bank loading errors from those who do not have the Wwise project.

Can we get a definitive answer on if this setup is possible, and if so, how? Thanks!

Comments

Hey Guys,
After digging into this issue a bit, I noticed it was an editor only problem and the issue seems to stem from line 94 of AkBasePathGetter.cs, if you change
        if (System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(SoundBankDest) == "")
to
        if (SoundBankDest != "" && System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(SoundBankDest) == "")

It seems to fix it.  Our issue stemed from SoundBankDest being empty string, and System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot throwing an exception on this causing the function to error out and not hit the backup soundbankdest string which points to where they actually are.  Hope this solves it.

Answer 1

i'm guessing that you're trying to load the banks from the `GeneratedSoundbanks` directory that is only present with the project - can you confirm where you attempt to load banks from for clients who do not have the project data?

Answer 2

This setup is definitely possible, it sounds like something might be off with the settings for where to load the soundbanks from, since only those that have the wwise project are able to correctly load the banks.

Make sure that you are loading the banks from the StreamingAssets folder.

Answer 3

Hey Guys, 
After digging into this issue a bit, I noticed it was an editor only problem and the issue seems to stem from line 94 of AkBasePathGetter.cs, if you change
        if (System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(SoundBankDest) == "")
to
        if (SoundBankDest != "" && System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot(SoundBankDest) == "")

It seems to fix it.  Our issue stemed from SoundBankDest being empty string, and System.IO.Path.GetPathRoot throwing an exception on this causing the function to error out and not hit the backup soundbankdest string which points to where they actually are.  Hope this solves it.

Already replied this but putting this as an actual answer

Answer 4

Hi, I think that we were dealing with the same problem. It was caused by settings of Wwise in Unity. Since some recent patch, unity tries to generate sound banks itself before running the game (and it fails if it is not able to find the project folder). You can change this settings in Unity -> Edit -> Wwise Settings -> uncheck "Enable copying of soundbanks at pre-Build step".