When developing NPCs, audio assets which are part of the group inventory do not seem to be available to games within the same group. I checked the assets and only those that I have uploaded to the group do not seem to be working, yet I can play them on the website. It seems to happen only for older audio assets. All sound assets were uploaded to the website. New assets that I uploaded appear to be working except a couple of them. Those may have different issues.
Additional Information
Field
Value
Problem Area
Studio
Problem Component
Asset Downloads
First Seen
Today (12 Jan 2024)
Frequency
Constant
Imact
High
Annoyance Level
High
OS
Windows 10 Pro
The group in question is Dracolynxis Technologies (5207881632)
The experience in question is The Proving Grounds (15112688736)
Here is a list of the affected sound assets. There’s more for other NPCs, but this is a start.
13602108683
13602043841
13602041914
13602036625
13602027906
13601963256
13601961517
13601960039
13601957854
13601954687
13601952304
13601950084
13601947142
13601944166
13601942006
13601936342
Note that I think it might be a permissions issue, but it’s affecting only some of the sound assets. Others appear to be working, but it’s sporadic as to which ones work and which ones don’t. The above assets are for an NPC by the name of Ra (Egyptian god). All the ones that I uploaded do not seem to be functioning in game, but I can play them on the website.
Expectations
What I expect to happen is that audio assets that are uploaded as a group asset are available to all experiences within the same group.
Visuals
Studio view when the place is loaded from the cloud.
These are not songs. These sounds are speech with distorted audio that the NPCs say on various triggers. So using something different isn’t an option. But yeah, this needs to be fixed…sooner rather than later.
Some of the asset Ids are in the original post. Look them up on the creator marketplace. For instance, the first one on the list Sacrilege plays on the website but not in game. Go figure.
Like I said, it’s not really possible for me to use something else. These NPCs were designed a certain way with certain triggers that do things. Right now, the NPC is not really functional because of it.
Here’s the rub. Assets uploaded before June have this problem. Assets that have been uploaded after June do not. So new stuff that I just uploaded seems to be working.
@Maelstorm_1973 Your experience will get implicit permissions when you insert the audio assets (either the owns you own or shared with you) from toolbox or upload them via Asset Manager in the game. You can look at the Permissions page under Experiences in Creator Hub to bulk grant permissions to assets manually for an experience and to see the list of assets that the experience has permission on. We are working on bulk asset granting from studio error output and other features to address the pain points related to privacy.
So this is a known issue. Very well then. I have since granted explicit permissions to the experience, so it is working now. I’ll just have to keep this in mind when I run into this issue again.
We have brought back the ability to grant permissions from studio error output messages. This should help ease your pain points until we release new features.
