Obsidian Entertainment, 2025

• Dynamic music system that changes with combat intensity and scripted areas in open worlds during exploration.
• Custom Slate UI for organizing music data assets for each level.
• Override feature for ambient audio volumes placed in level to change music in specific areas such as boss combat music or sweeping vistas.
• Debug menu to quickly test combat music with a slider to change threat intensity rather than recreating a full combat encounter with enemy AI.
• Cutscene implementation to seamlessly transition between ambient music and scripted scenes.
• Ambient emitter technology for rivers based on player movement and location, implemented with tech art pipeline for automatic generation and placement with worldbuilding tools.
  
• Parameters including width and velocity (flow) used to generate sections of emitters at each point on the spline.
• Sound designer implementation time saved with tech art workflow integration to generate ambient audio tech with one button click.
• Integration of spatial audio Triton Acoustics plugin within game project that uses custom audio components to stress test latest features in collaboration with the Xbox team.
• Wrapper to pipe Triton Acoustics processing for custom audio components.
• Prototype bake process to divide level into a grid, improving acoustics data bake times before UE5 world partition support.
• Audio interfaces for characters, weapons, and other gameplay objects to trigger audio for various systems like movement and events unique to each object type.
• Custom behaviors for different interfaces to activate/deactivate audio components to save CPU resources.
• AI VO utilities to add organic cooldowns for enemy and companion banter and hooks for major combat events.