Integrate FMOD into Unreal Engine 4
2 min readMar 24, 2021
Steps :
- Download FMOD
- Install and Enable FMOD in UE4
- Validate FMOD
1. Download FMOD
Make sure your UE4 version is compatible with both FMOD Studio and UE4 integraion.
2. Install and Enable FMOD in UE4
1. Place folder, FMODStudio from ue4 integration into engine plugin directory or into game’s GameName/Plugins directory.
\\Put in Engine
C:\Jamie\UnrealEngine\UE_4.26\Engine\Plugins\FMODStudio\\Put in Project, create a new folder and name it Plugins
C:\Jamie\UnrealEngineProject\MyProject\Plugins\FMODStudio
2. Enable FMOD Plugin in Unreal
Once Enable the FMOD Studio Integration Plugin, it will automatically create a FMOD folder under Content folder.
Restart the Engine as it asked.
3. Validate FMOD
💡 Make sure both Unreal Engine and FMOD studio are running.
- In Unreal, go to Help - Validate FMOD
This step will AUTOMATICALLY connect our project with FMOD’s Built banks output directory.
There will be several steps. Don’t worry and click Ok.
It will do all the work for you.
- After validation was finished, go to FMOD Studio : Edit-Preferences-Build
It should be properly list the Built banks output directory as the folder when we enable the FMOD plugin
Should I make this a series? or not?
There will be Banks and events, Parameters into Unreal, Anim Notify, etc.