MoritzBrueckner
commented
2 years ago Hi and welcome :)
Unfortunately asset handling is not Kha's and Armory's biggest strength, but I will try to explain it as thoroughly as possible:
Armory automatically exports assets that exist in a Bundled folder in your project root. However there is a small problem with Armory's approach, and that is that the assets are not directly available as sounds in Kha, and Aura currently requires that for loading them. I plan to improve this in the near future (in both Aura and Armory), but for now you'll have to add the sounds manually to the generated khafile.js.
To do this, create a new text document in Blender's text editor and select that document in the properties panel under Armory Project > Modules > Khafile. The contents of the selected file will be appended to your khafile and here we can override/extend Armory's problematic asset export. I'm not sure how familiar you are with khafiles, but if all your sounds are in Bundled/sounds (for example), you can simply use the following line:
// This line tells Kha that every file inside Bundled/sounds should
// be exported as an asset
project.addAssets('Bundled/sounds/**', {notinlist: false, quality: 1.0});The important thing is the notinlist: false setting, Armory sets this to true by default and that's why you need the manual workaround.
The quality is a value between 0.0 and 1.0 and apart from the actual quality of the sound this will control whether the sound is compressed or uncompressed. However (and this is a bit unfortunate and not yet documented), Kha will compress the sounds on some targets and don't compress them on others if the quality is below 1. Krom for example only uses uncompressed sounds. So try to play around with the quality if things don't work directly.
Some general tips:
- Here you can see the formats that Khamake expects for the assets
- Khamake might rename your asset name (the name you're using in the
AuraLoadConfig), you can see the rules for this here. In the above example this shouldn't be the case though. - If a sound is uncompressed you should use
Aura.play(), if it is compressedAura.stream(), but Aura will notify you in case you are using the wrong function.
For instance test.wav, would that be uncompressed: ["test"]
Yes :)
JanClaasen
Hello, sorry for asking
what would be the easiest way to get this to work with armory engine? I mean with loading the compressed or uncompressed file, do i put my audio file somewhere? For instance test.wav, would that be uncompressed: ["test"] ?