Godot Sound Manager

Lefrec Version

A simple music and sound effect player for the Godot Engine.

This is a fork from Nathanhoad's Sound Manager aimed to simplify features I did not need and add some I wanted.

Go check the original if you don't care about the modifications I made.

Installation

• Copy the addons/sound_manager directory from this repository into your project's res://addons/ directory.
• Enable SoundManager - Lefrec version in Project → Project Settings.
• Access the SoundManager singleton anywhere in your project.

Features

Base features

• Pooled audio players
• Handles music crossfades
• Autodetect probable audio buses for both sounds and music
• Splits sounds up into UI sounds and local sounds -> Split sounds up into sound effects, UI sounds, ambient sounds and music
• Supports both GDScript and C#

Added features

• Unique bus for every audio type
• Volume and mute control over every bus
• Audio effect control over every bus

Small changes

• Unified volume to use linear values everywhere
• Gave fading smoother symmetrical transitions

Possible future features

• Adding optional spatialization to sound effects
• Adding optional spatialization to ambient sounds
• Allow looping ambient sounds
• Playlist system for music
• Allow looping music
• is_paused() function for music

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Sound Effects and UI Sounds
• Ambient Sounds
• Music
• Volume and Effects
• Other Features
• Using C#