First Person Exploration Kit: Creating a Passive Audio Diary


Passive Audio Diaries are like Attached Notes, but with Audio. They allow you to add commentary or audio context to another type of Interactable object. For example, you could add a Passive Audio Diary to a light switch or a journal.

Passive Audio Diary

  1. Create any other Interactable type (e.g. Journal, Static, Pickup, etc.)
  2. Add FPEPassiveAudioDiary to your object, and set the following variables to suit your object:
  3. Below is an image showing the inspector of the example Journal object with a Passive Audio Diary attached.



  4. Run the scene, and interact with the Interactable with the attached passive audio diary to play the diary.

Similar to regular Audio Diaries, when passive audio diaries are retrieved, the sound clip will play and (optionally) the title of the diary will be displayed. They can also be added to inventory screen under the Audio Diaries tab, and included in saved game data. To listen to the diary again, open the Audio Diaries tab in the inventory screen and click on the title of interest:


You can attach a passive audio diary to any type of Interactable object, but it is not recommended that you attach them to regular Audio Diary objects :)