Plugins + Scripts Listener Killer

Stop CUA cameras from stealing your scene's audio perspective!
A lightweight, surgical plugin that solves a common but frustrating issue: Custom Unity assets (CUAs) with camera components often include AudioListener components that hijack your entire scene's audio, making you "hear" from the wrong location.

Wow! What a fun, niche plugin that only 3 people will ever need!

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The Problem It Solves​

Have you ever noticed:

• Music...

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Eye9 said:

I was always wondering why the sound would get like that sometimes. Read your description, went "yes of course!". Thank you.

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1. I don't think it restores correctly when saving & loading a scene (the listener stays active). Might be related to 'disable all' not working properly?

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2. I think something with the audio needs to be reset for this to work correctly in certain scenarious. I've had the situation where audio would stop working completely when disabling the CUA listener. Workaround for me was to then enable & disable the AudioListener on the WindowCamera. I'm in VR, maybe that makes a difference?

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Also do you think it would be feasible to allow this plugin to function as a scene/session plugin? As in: just gather all AudioListeners in the scene and disable all except for the VaM one. I really don't see where I would ever need a different AudioListener. Not as critical though, I reckon there might be some work involved with e.g. atom spawning and so on, properly restoring functionality etc...

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In any case, thanks for making this!

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Arachnut said:

Possible! Saving and Restoring data has been a tougher thing for me-- I'll look in to it!

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Arachnut said:

And to be honest, I've done my fair share of programming in many languages-- but the interactions and handshakes between VaM and Unity is something I am newer to. So I'll dig as deep as I can, but this sounds like something out of my wheelhouse.

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if (audioListener != null && SuperController.singleton != null)
{
    if (useAudioListener && cameraOn)
    {
        SuperController.singleton.PushAudioListener(audioListener);
    }
    else
    {
        SuperController.singleton.RemoveAudioListener(audioListener);
    }
}

public void PushAudioListener(AudioListener audioListener)
{
    if (!additionalAudioListeners.Contains(audioListener))
    {
        additionalAudioListeners.AddLast(audioListener);
        overrideAudioListener = additionalAudioListeners.Last.Value;
        SyncAudioListener();
    }
}

public void RemoveAudioListener(AudioListener audioListener)
{
    if (additionalAudioListeners.Contains(audioListener))
    {
        additionalAudioListeners.Remove(audioListener);
        audioListener.enabled = false;
        if (additionalAudioListeners.Count > 0)
        {
            overrideAudioListener = additionalAudioListeners.Last.Value;
        }
        else
        {
            overrideAudioListener = null;
        }
        SyncAudioListener();
    }
}

Eye9 said:

Same for me when I was messing around with it tbh ^^

So I took a small gander and this is what happens when you toggle the AudioListener on the WindowCamera:

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Listener Killer v2.1 (hub v2) - Release Notes​

NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE... not exactly... YOU'LL NEED TO RECHECK SOME BOXES ONCE LOADED

New Features​

New Features

• Now a Scene / Session plugin
• Still an Atom plugin as well

Bug Fixes​

• Hey, it saves and loads...

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