Custom Sound Effects

[Bladestorm Games]

Its been a while since my first go at making Custom Sounds for my mod, and Im starting from scratch.

Just wanted to confirm a few things.

1) What version of Unity do I want to use for Asset Bundling the sounds?
I tried checking https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Unity but it doesnt suggest Unity version there.
My old post has a user saying 7D2D (A19.6) uses Unity version: 2019.2.17f1. Is that still the case?

2) I remember in addition to getting the proper version of Unity, I had to have some Asset Bundling script.
Where would I find the proper script?
I also tried checking the same page (https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Unity) has a 404 Link when clicking on the Asset Bundler Script link.
 

Thanks!

 

[Bladestorm Games]

Bumping this as I am still looking for assistance, thanks!

 

[doughphunghus]

My best effort, BUT I have not made any sounds in awhile for a20. been busy...

For Unity version, if you can't find the "correct" one to use ( like the required, base version. It should be listed somewhere but I don't know where anymore), you can try looking at the games "[install path]/7 Days To Die/7DaysToDie_Data/output_log_client_****.log" for the version of the game you're running (start a game, have it generate a new log).

Look for this line near the top of the log (I think I'm running the latest stable a20.x for this line in the log):

"Initialize engine version: 2020.3.14f1 (d0d1bb862f9d)"

I'm not sure if you can get that exact version of Unity, but get as close as you can without going to a newer version.

For the asset bundle exporter script,I'm not 100% sure but it may be in here, though it still says "a19" and when a20 came out I'm not sure if its still working...

https://github.com/7D2D/Templates-and-Utilities <- File: "MultiPlatformExportAssetBundles.zip"

This might help anything you may have forgotten. 

 

[Bladestorm Games]

Thanks! I got my sounds to work!

For anyone else, are my notes on how it worked for me:

1 ) Installed Unity Hub

2 ) Find Version 2020.3.14f:
https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive
(Clicked on Unity 2020.x Tab)

3 ) Download & Installed via Unity Hub

4 ) Launched new project as version 2020.3.14f

5 ) Drag & Dropped the following into the Assets area:
 • MultiPlatformExportAssetBundles.cs (From doughphunghus's Github link above)
 • My sounds (I had 2 WAV and the rest were MP3)

6 ) Highlight (click-select) all sounds

7 ) Right click'd any of the highlighted sounds, and selected "Build Multi-Platform AssetBundle From Selection"

8 ) Save the [NAME].Unity3D to my mod's Resources folder.

9 ) Add code to mod's sounds.xml (example seen in spoiler below)

sounds.xml:

Spoiler

<config>
<append xpath="/Sounds">
<SoundDataNode name="Sound_PoisonApply">
<AudioSource name="Sounds/AudioSource_VO"/>
<Noise ID="2" noise="11" time="3" muffled_when_crouched="0.5"/>
<AudioClip ClipName="#@modfolder:Resources/sounds_arpg.unity3d?snd_poison_apply"/>
<LocalCrouchVolumeScale value="0.3"/>
<CrouchNoiseScale value="0.5"/>
<NoiseScale value="1"/>
<MaxVoices value="5"/>
<MaxRepeatRate value="0.01"/>
</SoundDataNode>
</append>
</config>

Sound usage in other XML:

Spoiler

<effect_group>
<!-- Play Custom Sound -->
<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfSecondaryActionStart" action="PlaySound" sound="Sound_PoisonApply"/>
</effect_group>

EDIT: quick note, for fun, I tried using a version of unity for 2022 and 2021, and I would get issues in 7D2D when 7D2D tried to load/unpack the .Unity3D file.