Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

Creating your first sound scape

Sound in games is one of the most important tools that you can leverage to enhance the immersion and enjoyment a player has with your title. UE offers a very easy-to-use sound toolset that we are going to be learning how to utilize. We will be learning how to create 3D sound queues, how to trigger sound effects based off of animation ques, and how to add global sound volumes to your game scenes.

Importing sounds and sound cues

The first thing we need to do is import the sounds that we will be using to create our ques. All raw sound assets must be added to your content folder then used to create a Sound Cue object. Sound cues allow you to play sounds from within Blueprints, codebase, and animations at runtime. These ...