Playing music and sound effects
Music and sound effects sometimes can make or break the enjoyment people get out of movies, theatre plays, and of course, video games. When done right, they will definitely add to the immersion. In this section, we’ll tackle the use of music and sound effects from a technical point of view. In your own free time, we suggest you investigate the artistic aspects of sound design in multimedia for which we’ll mention a few resources later on in the Further reading section.
In Chapter 8, Adding Sound Assets, we discussed different nodes Godot uses to play sound in different dimensions, as follows:
- AudioStreamPlayer3D for conveying 3D positional information to the player. It’s most commonly used in FPS games where not only front and back directions matter, but an audio stream coming from an elevated place is important as well.
- AudioStreamPlayer2D for games in which the direction the sound is coming from doesn’t need...
