Multiple audio sources on a single gameObject

Unity Engine
1

So,
I have an audio system set up wherein I have loaded all my audio clips centrally and play them on demand by passing the requesting audioSource into the sound manager.

However, there is a complication wherein if I want to overlay multiple looping sounds, I need to have multiple audio sources on an object, which is fine , so I created two in my script instantiated them and played my clips on them and then the world went crazy.

For some reason, when I create two audio Sources in an object only the latest one is ever used, even if I explicitly keep objects separated, playing a clip on one or the other plays the clip on the last one that was created, furthermore, either this last one is not created in the right place or somehow messes with the rolloff rules because I can hear it all across my level, havign just one source works fine, but putting a second one on it causes shit to go batshit insane.

Does anyone know the reason / solution for this ?

Some pseudocode :

    guardSoundsSource = (AudioSource)gameObject.AddComponent("AudioSource");
    guardSoundsSource.name = "Guard_Sounds_source";
    // Setup this source 

    guardThrusterSource = (AudioSource)gameObject.AddComponent("AudioSource"); 
    guardThrusterSource.name = "Guard_Thruster_Source";
    // setup this source

   // play using custom Sound manager
   soundMan.soundMgr.playOnSource(guardSoundsSource,"Guard_Idle_loop",true,GameManager.Manager.PlayerType);
   // this method prints out the name of the source the sound was to be played on and it always shows "Guard_Thruster_Source" even on the "Guard_Idle_loop" even though I clearly told it to use "Guard_Sounds_source"
2

You’re changing the name of the same GameObject twice. You can’t name components, only GameObjects.

–Eric

3

So you’re suggesting that the .name property is the parent game objects property and has nothing to do with the actual components ?

4

thats what hes suggesting ;_)

5

Oh, I am more than suggesting it, I am stating it as one of the grand truths of the universe. After all, would the holy writ of Unity documentation lie to us? Of course not, don’t blaspheme.

–Eric

6

heh, no, however it does like to be vague at times.