Waiting for the audio to finish playing before auto-destructing an object
An event might occur (such as an object pickup or the killing of an enemy) that we wish to notify the player of by playing an audio clip and an associated visual object (such as an explosion particle system or a temporary object in the location of the event). However, as soon as the clip has finished playing, we will want the visual object to be removed from the scene. This recipe provides a simple way in which to link the end of an audio clip playing with the automatic destruction of its containing object.
Getting ready
Try out this recipe with any audio clip that is one second or more in duration. We have included the engineSound audio clip inside the 04_09_engine_sound/Sounds/ folder.
How to do it...
To wait for audio to finish playing before destroying its parent GameObject, perform the following steps:
- Create a new Unity 2D project, and import the sound clip file.
- Create...
