Background music

The first part of audio that we will cover will be the background music. Having music in your background can set the mood of a scene, keep the player entertained on a subconscious level, or even be gameplay mechanics that the player interacts with. We will create a dynamic system that will allow us to play songs randomly or in a playlist style.

Creating a random system

The first step in creating our background music system will be to create a new C# script and name it BG_Music_Manager. Before we start scripting, add the using statement to the top of the script using the other using statements:

Using System.Collections.Generic;

We will need the using statement so that we can use lists. Next, we will create a few variables and add these to our script:

public List<AudioClip> SongList = new List<AudioClip>();
public float bgVolume = 1.00f;
public int curSong = 0;
public int ranMin, ranMax;
public bool playRandomly = false;

Our first variable is a list of audio clips, which...