Vanishing Point (Not the '97 remake!)

[ChugsJetFuel]

Hey

I didn’t see until now, thanks for the reply.

Yeah, the setup in the Vehicle Game template from Epic really isn’t going to cut it, it’s too simple.

It’s just that my coder says FMOD isn’t all that simple to implement, and will slow down his process for the sake of the sound designer

To quote him:

FMOD worries me to be honest. It introduces a few problems, such as; all the team (small I know) has to install the plugin, has a history of bugs which may or may not get fixed quickly, it has to be updated every time there is a release of UE so we can’t just update UE when it comes out and lastly, and most importantly, I can’t call it from code without compiling against the engine.
Essentially, what means is that to speed up sound design, I have to slow down. Every time I want to make a sound from code I have to create a blueprint event for the object concerned (car for example) and then our sound designer hook it up from there. A lot of the work in implementing sounds with FMOD still uses blueprints in other ways so I’m very confused about the benefits that FMOD offers, other than an easier interface to composing . I looked at the vehicle audio construction video for FMOD and what they produced was barely any different to what the VehicleGame project had in UE with just blueprints. Only it’s construction technique was different.

So it sounds like his ill-informed about the last bit, but do you have any issues with compiling your code?

Mind you, he’s written a ton of custom code and has modified the game engine quite a bit

Also, I should show him what you’ve got as an FMOD BP to compare to Epic’s vehicle