Audio Ears on the Character, not the Camera?

[NikDouglas]

@Vaei

There is a much easier and more organic way to achieve this without doing anything on tick or hacking together rotations, for future googlers (I know, its an old thread). Override APlayerController::GetAudioListenerPosition() and add:

if (GetPawn())
{
ViewLocation = GetPawn()->GetActorLocation();
}

In the else statement under GetPlayerViewPoint(ViewLocation, ViewRotation), here’s the full function. The result is that it uses the pawn’s location but the camera’s rotation.

FVector ViewLocation;
FRotator ViewRotation;

if (bOverrideAudioListener)
{
USceneComponent* ListenerComponent = AudioListenerComponent.Get();
if (ListenerComponent != nullptr)
{
ViewRotation = ListenerComponent->GetComponentRotation() + AudioListenerRotationOverride;
ViewLocation = ListenerComponent->GetComponentLocation() + ViewRotation.RotateVector(AudioListenerLocationOverride);
}
else
{
ViewLocation = AudioListenerLocationOverride;
ViewRotation = AudioListenerRotationOverride;
}
}
else
{
GetPlayerViewPoint(ViewLocation, ViewRotation);
if (GetPawn())
{
ViewLocation = GetPawn()->GetActorLocation();
}
}

const FRotationTranslationMatrix ViewRotationMatrix(ViewRotation, ViewLocation);

OutLocation = ViewLocation;
OutFrontDir = ViewRotationMatrix.GetUnitAxis(EAxis::X);
OutRightDir = ViewRotationMatrix.GetUnitAxis(EAxis::Y);

This worked great! Just a note to inlclude the entire signature when overriding: YourPlayerController::GetAudioListenerPosition(FVector& OutLocation, FVector& OutFrontDir, FVector& OutRightDir)