Unity spatial audio
Shapes Unity sound around distance, obstacles and the listener's movement. Keeps essential cues understandable across headphones, speakers and camera changes rather than relying on direction alone.
unity-spatial-audio
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When is it useful?
Use it when distance, obstruction, reverb or camera changes make sound positioning misleading or essential events hard to hear.
What does it help you do?
- Defines attenuation, distance, source motion and listener ownership.
- Checks occlusion and reverb with bounded queries and smoothing.
- Preserves essential cues across headphones, speakers and accessibility settings.
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Tune guard footsteps in a Unity corridor with doors and adjoining rooms. Compare attenuation, obstruction and reverb while moving and rotating the camera. Check headphones and stereo speakers, prevent duplicate listeners during a cutscene transition and ensure a critical nearby threat still has an understandable cue when its sound is muffled.
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Spatial Sound and Environmental Cues
Inspect target output/headphones, world scale, listener ownership, installed spatializer and the intended acoustic behavior. Spatial blend, panning, attenuation and HRTF spatialization are distinct controls.
- Define source dimensions and motion, distance range, rolloff and category. Verify attenuation at near/far boundaries; maxDistance is not a universal hard cutoff for every rolloff mode.
- Choose mono/stereo import and spread from the authored signal and playback purpose; do not globally force all audio to mono or assume every stereo effect needs an HRTF plugin.
- Coordinate listeners with camera/character changes and additive scenes. Check actual listener position/orientation and avoid accidentally hearing two competing world perspectives.
- Implement occlusion/reverb through the installed system with bounded scene queries and smoothing. A single ray or volume transition is an approximation; test doors, walls and multiple sources.
- Use Doppler and velocity updates deliberately for the target game and motion scale. Teleports, pooled reuse and mismatched update timing can produce unintended pitch shifts.
- Preserve essential gameplay cues across speaker/headphone and accessibility settings; position alone should not be the only way to understand a required event.
Listen while moving/rotating through representative scenes and check CPU/voice counts. Distinguish a simulated acoustic approximation from measured/approved spatial output.
Reference: Unity AudioSource and the installed spatializer documentation.
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