what is the base instance for the all audio instances?
@VeryLiquidCold currently all the audio instances inherit from Instance. We thought about making them share a base “AudioNode” class, or inherit from “AudioProducer”/“AudioEffect”/“AudioConsumer” base classes, but since our engine only supports single-inheritance, this would close the door on some types like AudioPlayer ever inheriting from another meaningful base-class, e.x. Playable.
You can check whether a particular instance is consuming/producng audio by checking :GetConnectedWires("Input")/:GetConnectedWires("Output"); combined with pcall you could generalize this further
I have not enabled any beta features yet I still see the instances in play testing
@whatplayer5858 the studio beta only controls whether the instances are findable/insertable in the explorer; any audio instances that were already there or instantiated by scripts are still functional; we did this so that you can still publish experiences that use the new features
So I’m trying to use the audio API for a Voice Chat Radio I was programming, and I used the sample code to recreate the old voice chat RollOff, but the ListenerPosition is the workspace’s CurrentCamera’s Position.
Hey @BehzadGen, there’s an AudioEmitter:SetDistanceAttenuation API that makes implementing the equivalent rolloff much simpler; the announcement is here and
there is some sample code showing how this can be used to recreate the old voice rolloff without a per-frame/polling loop
So two players could try to speak to each other normally while being far from the CurrentCamera Position, and they can’t hear each other. How could I get around this?
You could reparent the AudioListener to your local player’s character’s head, or to a part/attachment/model that’s nearer – we spawn an AudioListener on the camera by default because we can more reliably count on it existing, but that default isn’t necessarily the best, feel free to change it for your needs!