Play Audiofile Behaviour - allow configuration of AudioSource

[stgrosshh]

There is already a AudioSource property in the EntityData of the behaviour.

But this will not show up in the Step Inspector, since the PlayAudioBehaviourDrawer is a very special implementation, not taking all properties into consideration. So, the default AudioSource (spatially located in the head of the player) will always be used.

Feature Request: Make the AudioSource configurable in the StepInspector. Probably, some kind of AudioSourceProperty is required therefore for fetching and persisting the reference?

Use case would be a virtual assistant, where it would be nice being able to locate the voice origin spatially.

[martrd]

If all instructions need to come from the virtual assistant, you can (relatively) easily create a runtime configuration where the instruction player is the virtual assistant instead of the audio player on the user.
To do so, you can implement IProcessAudioPlayer in order for it to return your desired audio source. Overall, it would look very similar to DefaultAudioPlayer. Then, return your class as ProcessAudioPlayer in the Runtime Configuration.

Yes it's trickier than just assigning an audio source in the step inspector. The idea of the current Play Audio behavior is a low-configuration behavior for playing instructions - as you've correctly assumed, allowing it to play any audio source would probably have to rely on an additional property.
That said, this seems a sound request and I would have no problem with extending the current behavior so that an audio source can optionally be specified.

Internal ticket is MP-3397

[AronSchaub]

We have that fixed in our Internal Version of VR Builder (we made a new behavior for it) and I agree it would be best to have a Property that you can drag and drop in as Scene Property Reference in the core either as extra Behavior or toggle-able for the existing one. We also had a couple of suggestion internally to expose some of the setting like making it looped or normalize audio.

[stgrosshh]

We have that fixed in our Internal Version of VR Builder (we made a new behavior for it) and I agree it would be best to have a Property that you can drag and drop in as Scene Property Reference in the core either as extra Behavior or toggle-able for the existing one. We also had a couple of suggestion internally to expose some of the setting like making it looped or normalize audio.

We did that as well. I can provide that as PR next week