Unity Integration | Oculus | Set WWise output device

Question

Hey there,

I'm running unity 2018.1.9f1, Oculus Utilities 1.27, WWise Unity Integration 2018.1.1.6727.1172, and WWise 2018.1.1. I'm struggling to change the WWise audio output from the default windows device to the Oculus chosen device. 

#if !OVRPLUGIN_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM
            string audioDevice = OVRManager.audioOutId;

            uint audioOutId = AkSoundEngine.GetDeviceIDFromName(audioDevice);

            ActivePlatformSettings.AkInitializationSettings.initSettings.settingsMainOutput.idDevice = audioOutId;
#endif

I've tried adding something along the lines of the above in the AkWwiseInitializationSettings.cs's InitializeSoundEngine function, before AkSoundEngine.Init gets called. However, it doesn't seem to work. 

Any tips? 

Answer 1

I ended up having to do something like this in the AkWwiseInitializationSettings.cs's InitializeSoundEngine function:

#if !OVRPLUGIN_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM
	    AkWindowsSettings akWindowsSettings = (AkWindowsSettings)(ActivePlatformSettings);
	    if (akWindowsSettings)
	    {
	        string audioDevice = OVRManager.audioOutId;
	        uint audioOutId = AkSoundEngine.GetDeviceIDFromName(audioDevice);
	        akWindowsSettings.UserSettings.m_MainOutputSettings.m_DeviceID = audioOutId;
        }
#endif

Additionally, I had to make sure OVRManager ran before AKInitialize in my script execution order.

And I noticed that AkSoundEngine.IsInitialized() was returning True, even if the sound engine wasn't initialized. So I had to do

if (AkSoundEngine.IsInitialized())
{
    AkSoundEngine.Term();
}

at the start of AkSoundEngineController.cs's Init method. 

Comments

Sorry to necropost here but I was struggling with this same problem and although the above code pointed me in the right direction I found that it didn't work for me. (Wwise Integration 2018.1.11.6987.1466)

In the end I found that it worked to create an OculusWwiseInitialize Component like this:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class OculusWwiseInitialize : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Awake()
    {
        if (AkBasePathGetter.GetPlatformName() == "Windows")
        {
            AkWindowsSettings akWindowsSettings = (AkWindowsSettings)AkWwiseInitializationSettings.ActivePlatformSettings;
            if (akWindowsSettings)
            {
                string audioDevice = OVRManager.audioOutId;
                uint audioOutId = AkSoundEngine.GetDeviceIDFromName(audioDevice);
                akWindowsSettings.UserSettings.m_MainOutputSettings.m_DeviceID = audioOutId;
            }
        }
    }
}

Under Project Settings -> Script Execution Order I've then tweaked the order to be like:

OculusWwiseInitialize
OVRManager
AkInitializer