In this tutorial we’ll add music to the game.

It doesn’t matter if you want to add actual music or just some environmental tracks – your game needs some noice!

We’ll set up multiple music clips and add some of them to the game world, while others will be used later (e.g. battle and victory music).

Learn more about music in this Makinom documentation.

Music Setup #

Navigate to Game > Music, we’ll change the Default music and add additional music.

You can find all the music audio clips in Assets/Tutorial Assets/Audio/Music/cynicmusic – in case you want to check out other tracks from the same composer, check out cynicmusic’s other assets on opengameart.org. Most of them are available under CC0 license.

0: Town Theme #

1: Forest Theme #

2: Battle Theme #

Loop Settings #

We’ll use a loop within the track, i.e. at a certain position we’ll change the playback position back to a previous one.

3: Victory Theme #

4: Outpost Theme #

5: Dungeon Theme #

6: Boss Battle Theme #

Loop Settings #

That’s it for the music setup.

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Scene Setup #

We’ll add our music to the game using Music Player components.

You can add them either via the scene hierarchy context menu (Makinom > Music Player) or the Makinom scene wizard (Create Game Object > Music Player).

There are different variations available:

• Music Player
  Creates a music player that plays the music on Start, e.g. when the scene is loaded.
• Music Player 2D
  Creates a music player that plays the music when the player enter’s the 2D trigger of the music player.
• Music Player 3D
  Creates a music player that plays the music when the player enter’s the 3D trigger of the music player.

We’ll use the start and 3D trigger variations.

Start Menu #

Let’s start with the Start Menu scene (Assets/Scenes/) – open the scene and add a Music Player (i.e. not 2D or 3D variants) using the context menu or scene wizard.

Change the following settings in the Music Player component.

The start menu will stop any playing music when we return to it.

Dungeon Level 1 – 5 #

For the Dungeon Level 1 to Dungeon Level 5 scenes (not the Dungeon Battle Arena), we’ll also use the Music Player that plays automatically. The dungeon scenes can be found in Assets/Scenes/Dungeon/.

The setup is the same for all 5 levels, so you can either copy/pase the game object or create a prefab out of it and use that.

World #

Open the World scene (Assets/Scenes/), this time we’ll use the Music Player 3D, which has a Sphere Collider added, used as a trigger.

We need to place multiple music players to play our town theme, forest theme and outpost theme. The forest theme will be added multiple times, to cover playing it when leaving town, the dungeon and the outpost. Remember how the scene looks like:

Town #

Add the music player to the town are and increase the Radius of the Sphere Collider to cover a large part of the town – at least the spawn point and part of the bridge should be covered. I’m using a radius of 60.

For better organization, change the game object’s name to Music Player Town.

As for the Music Player component:

We’ll also add a condition to it, we don’t want to use the music player while being in battle – otherwise we accidentally change the music when intersecting with the music player’s trigger.

In the Music Player‘s Condition Settings:

Outpost #

Add the music player to the outpost area and increase the Radius of the Sphere Collider to cover the outpost, mainly the entrance. I’m again using a radius of 60.

Change the game object’s name to Music Player Outpost.

As for the Music Player component:

Forest #

We’ll add multiple music players for the forst, first, let’s add one at the outpost, since we’re already in that area. A radius of 10 is enough this time, place it at the outpost’s exit.

Change the game object’s name to Music Player Forest Outpost.

As for the Music Player component:

Copy the game object and move it to the dungeon entrance. Make sure it’s also placed at the correct height.

Change the game object’s name to Music Player Forest Dungeon.

Copy the game object and move it to the town’s exit. Make sure it’s also placed at the correct height.

Change the game object’s name to Music Player Forest Town.

Testing #

And that’s it – save the scene.

Hit play and you’ll now hear the town theme when spawning, switching to the forest theme when leaving town, etc.

Next, we’ll set up areas.

(Optional) Organizing the scene #

For even better organizition of your scene, add an empty game object, rename it to Music and parent all music players to it.

Keeping your scenes tidy and uncluttered is always a good idea.