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FMOD Unity Templates

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Patrick Glennon | 2025

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Ludic Sound Lab Download Instructions for Unity and FMOD

Versions: Unity: 2022.3.56f1 LTS FMOD Studio: #2.02.25 (Unity Verified)*

Getting Unity and FMOD set up on your machine requires four main steps:

  1. Downloading Unity Hub and creating a Unity account
  2. Downloading the Unity Editor through the Unity Hub (version: 2022.3.56f1 LTS)
  3. Creating a free FMOD account and downloading FMOD Studio (version: 2.02.25)
  4. Adding FMOD Unity Plugin to “My Assets” in the Unity Asset Store and downloading it in Unity’s Package Manager

Unity Hub - this application allows us to install different versions of Unity on our machine

and to manage our Unity Projects

  1. Unity Hub Download (600~mb) a. Download UnityHubSetup.dmg b. Agree to unity terms of service to Install c. Once you open it you will be prompted to register a free account.

Unity Editor - this is the actual program Unity which can be downloaded once you have downloaded Unity Hub and registered an account

  1. Skip the recommended install
  2. Go to “Install Editor” in the top right corner
  3. Look under “other versions” and Install 2022.3.56f1 LTS
  4. In the Modules window: download the following a. Visual Studio b. Platforms you would like to make games for (for example select Mac and Windows if you would like to make desktop applications, select WebGL to enable exporting games for browser projects)

FMOD Studio Installation - This is the 3d party “middleware” we will use to manage and

trigger sounds in our games.

  1. Visit FMOD.com and register a free account
  2. Navigate to downloads then select: 2.02.25 (Unity Verified)

FMOD Unity Plugin Download - We need to add FMOD Unity Plugin to “our assets” in the

Unity Asset store. This is free and accomplished easily:

  1. Navigate to Unity Asset Store and click “Add to My Assets” for the FMOD Unity Plugin https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/audio/fmod-for-unity-161631 (This will require being logged into your account on Unity)
  2. After you have added FMOD for Unity to your assets, open a new project in Unity, navigate to the package manager, then to My Assets to find FMOD for Unity. Click download. Once the package is downloaded, click Import.

Minimum Specifications Unity 2022.3

Windows - Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit versions only.X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support. DX10, DX11, and DX12-capable GPUs.Hardware vendor officially supported drivers.

macOS - Mojave 10.14+ (Intel processors).Big Sur 11.0 (Apple silicon-based processors). X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support (Intel processors). Apple M1 or above (Apple silicon-based processors). Metal-capable Intel and AMD GPUs. Apple officially supported drivers (Intel processor) Rosetta 2 is required for Apple silicon devices running on either Apple silicon or Intel versions of the Unity Editor.

More info

Minimum Specifications FMOD

FMOD Studio supports systems of the following minimum specifications: Windows - Requires Windows 10, 1809 or later. macOS - Requires macOS 11.0 or higher. Linux - Minimum GNU C library GLIBC_2.28 and ALSA or PulseAudio. Recommend Ubuntu based distribution of 20.04 or higher.

“Windows users: Download the 64-bit version of FMOD Studio. (Note: If you’re not sure if your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit, it’s most likely 64-bit. You can check by going to Windows Settings)

> System > About and looking under 'System type'

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