Description
🎧 Give every area its own ambience and music without hand-wiring the transitions.
🎥 Usage Example | 📖 Getting Started | 🎚 Blend Settings | 🕒 Time of Day & Tension | 🛠 Full Playlist | 🎮 Demo | 💬 Support
Open World Audio System is a Blueprint-only area-audio framework for ambient sounds and exploration, tension and combat music. Define settings per area and let one sound manager handle playback, pausing, blending and state changes.
Large levels often need many overlapping audio rules: location, time of day, interiors and gameplay tension can all affect what the player should hear. This system keeps those rules in reusable area settings so you can build distinct soundscapes without wiring every transition by hand.
⭐ Why Use It?
Give each area its own identity: Use music, ambience and random ambient sounds.
Centralize playback logic: Let one sound manager coordinate the system.
Move between gameplay states: Use exploration, tension and combat music.
Blend with time of day: Avoid switching every track manually.
Handle interiors separately: Create more believable transitions.
Use it in multiplayer projects: Keep playback logic on the client.
✨ Key Features
Area-based ambient sound and music settings
Exploration, tension and combat music per area
Random ambient sounds
Time-of-day music and ambience changes
Interior ambience handling
Central sound manager for play, pause and switching
Four produced example tracks
Basic player character and zombie AI for demonstration
Readable Blueprint architecture designed for extension
📦 What's Included
The project contains 17 Blueprints, the audio manager and area framework, four example music tracks and demonstration gameplay content.
⚠️ Important
The system is designed to work in multiplayer with audio logic running on the client. Random ambient sounds are the documented replication exception; see the linked explanation for details.
Some example ambience comes from Epic's free learning content and is included to demonstrate the system.
📚 Documentation & Support
The linked videos cover a shipped-game usage example, setup, blend settings, time of day, tension and further tutorials. A downloadable demo and Discord support are also available. Reviews and older questions are available on Orbital Market.Check out all pack reviews and questions on Orbital Market!A system designed to make it easy to add ambient sounds and music to your level. The open world audio system includes a sound manager that takes care of playing all the sounds, pausing when needed and switching between exploration and combat music. You can quickly set up sounds to blend depending on the time of day. You can add a lot of different areas to your level with each their own sound settings, making it a lot easier to add sounds to your game.
It's been made 100% in Blueprints and it's easy to read/expand upon.
If you're working on a first/third person game this pack could save you a lot of time.
Videos with additional info:
|Usage example: Aron's Adventure|
|Time of day & tension settings|
|Playlist with more videos/tutorials|
Try out the project demo: