To be clear, if you make your own custom controllers you can play sounds any way you'd like. This document is specifically about playing sounds from the sample Gamepad controller

Making Sounds

There are currently 2 ways to make sounds for the sample gamepad controllers.

1. JSFX

   This is the recommended way as it's light weight.

   1. Go to the JSFX sound maker.

   2. Adjust the values until you get a sound you like.

   3. Copy the sound values (near top of the page just below the buttons) to a text file with the extension ".jsfx.txt" putting a name in front of each set of values. Save that file some where below Assets/WebPlayerTemplates/HappyFunTimes

   For example here is the sample sounds.jsfx.txt file

   coin      ["square",0.0000,0.4000,0.0000,0.0240,0.4080,0.3480,20.0000,909.0000,2400.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.2540,0.1090,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   jump      ["square",0.0000,0.4000,0.0000,0.0960,0.0000,0.1720,20.0000,245.0000,2400.0000,0.3500,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.5000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   coinland  ["square",0.0000,0.4000,0.0000,0.0520,0.3870,0.1160,20.0000,1050.0000,2400.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   bonkhead  ["sine",0.0000,0.4000,0.0000,0.0000,0.5070,0.1400,20.0000,1029.0000,2400.0000,-0.7340,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.3780,0.0960,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   land      ["sine",0.0000,0.4000,0.0000,0.1960,0.0000,0.1740,20.0000,1012.0000,2400.0000,-0.7340,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.3780,0.0960,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   kicked    ["noise",0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0400,0.0000,0.2320,20.0000,822.0000,2400.0000,-0.6960,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0270,0.0000]
   dropkick  ["sine",0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0880,0.0000,0.3680,20.0000,653.0000,2400.0000,0.2360,0.0000,0.1390,47.1842,0.9623,-0.4280,0.0000,0.0000,0.4725,0.0000,0.0000,-0.0060,-0.0260,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   bounce    ["noise",0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0220,0.0000,0.1480,20.0000,309.0000,2400.0000,-0.3300,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   

2. Use sounds files

   Put sound files (.mp3 or .wav) somewhere below Assets/WebPlayerTemplates/HappyFunTimes They have to be in there because they must be served to the phone.

   Note: it's a good idea to keep them as small as possible because each time a player connects to the game the phone will have to download all the sounds.

Playing Sounds

To use the sounds:

1. On some global gameobject (like LevelManager in all the samples) add an HFTGlobalSoundHelper script component.

   This component scans for and loads the sounds from all folders below Assets/WebPlayerTemplates/HappyFunTimes looking for .mp3 and .wav and .jsfx.txt files

2. On the prefab that gets spawned for your players, the same prefab you put an HFTInput or HFTGamepad script component add the HFTSoundPlayer script component.

3. In your Awake or Start look up the HFTSoundPlayer component

   private HFTSoundPlayer m_soundPlayer;
   
   void Awake()
   {
        m_soundPlayer = GetComponent<HFTSoundPlayer>();
   }
   

4. To play a sound call m_soundPlayer.PlaySound with the name of the sound (no extension). In other words if you have sounds/explosion.mp3 then you can trigger that sound on the user's phone with

   m_soundPlayer.PlaySound("explosion");
   

   Or if you named a JSFX sound like

   bounce    ["noise",0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0220,0.0000,0.1480,20.0000,309.0000,2400.0000,-0.3300,0.0000,0.0000,0.0100,0.0003,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000]
   

   Then

   m_soundPlayer.PlaySound("bounce");
   

That's it!

Names must be Unique!

Note that sounds are referenced by name only so you can't have 2 sounds with the same filename even if they are in different folders. Simiarly they can't clash with the names in the sounds.jsfx.txt file. So for example if you look at the example sounds.jsfx.txt file above you'll see there's a sound called coin. That would conflict with a sound file called coin.mp3.

If you don't like those limits see HFTGlobalSoundHelper.cs, HFTSoundPlayer.cs, and HTFSounds.cs as well as the corresponding support in Assets/WebPlayerTemplates/HappyFunTimes/controllers/gamepad/scripts/controller.js and edit or better copy them and add your own features.