mute ad volume

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1

Hi,

Been struggling to find a solution to this.

I have a mute music button in my game. The status is saved in PlayerPrefs for the next time the user loads the app. I can’t seem to get Unity Ads to mute at all.

I have unity Ads load in separate scenes - once after my game intro and once after game over.

I have a global boolean - “music” - which is set to either true or false according to the playerPrefs setting on my intro scene. It is working fine except in the ads.

I have tried in numerous places:

if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;

Isn’t there an Advertisement.volume type method?

Here is my unity ads script for my intro adverts. Can’t truely remember where I originally lifted it from to be honest:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Advertisements;
using System.Collections;

public class UnityAds : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start ()
    {

        Advertisement.Initialize ("XXXXX", false);
       
        StartCoroutine (ShowAdWhenReady ());
    }
   
    IEnumerator ShowAdWhenReady()
    {
        while (!Advertisement.isReady ())
            yield return null;
       

        DoShowAd(null);

    }

    // Use this method to show an ad from an external class.
    public static void ShowAd (string zone = null)
    {
        if (Advertisement.isInitialized)
        {
           

            if (Advertisement.isReady(zone)) DoShowAd(zone);
            else Debug.LogWarning("Unable to show advertisement. Placement zone is not ready.");
        }
        else Debug.LogError("Failed to show advertisement. Unity Ads is not initialized.");
    }
   
    private static void DoShowAd (string zone = null, int version = 0)
    {
        if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;
        // Functionality wise, the following two DoShowAd methods do exactly the same thing.
        //  The CondensedVersion is simply a clever way of writing the ExpandedVersion.
        //  They are provided here as examples of two different styles of coding.
        switch (version)
        {
        case 0:
            DoShowAd_CondensedVersion(zone);
            break;
        case 1:
            DoShowAd_ExpandedVersion(zone);
            break;
        }
    }
   
    private static void DoShowAd_CondensedVersion (string zone, bool pauseGameDuringAd = true)
    {

        if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;

        Advertisement.Show(zone, new ShowOptions {


            // With the pause option set to true, the timeScale and AudioListener
            //  volume for your game is set to 0 while the ad is shown.
            pause = pauseGameDuringAd,
            // The resultCallback is triggered when the ad is closed.
            resultCallback = result => {
                HandleShowResult(result);
            }
        });

      if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;
    }
   
    private static void DoShowAd_ExpandedVersion (string zone, bool pauseGameDuringAd = true)
    {
        if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;

        ShowOptions options = new ShowOptions();

        // With the pause option set to true, the timeScale and AudioListener
        //  volume for your game is set to 0 while the ad is shown.
        options.pause = pauseGameDuringAd;
        // The resultCallback is triggered when the ad is closed.
        options.resultCallback = HandleShowResult;


        Advertisement.Show(zone,options);

      if (!GlobalVar.music)
            AudioListener.volume = 0;
    }
   
    private static void HandleShowResult (ShowResult result)
    {
        switch (result)
        {
        case ShowResult.Finished:
            Debug.Log("The ad was successfully shown.");
            break;
        case ShowResult.Skipped:
            Debug.Log("The ad was skipped before reaching the end.");
            break;
        case ShowResult.Failed:
            Debug.LogError("The ad failed to be shown.");
            break;
        }
       
        Application.LoadLevel ("Menu");
        AudioListener.volume = 1;
       
       
    }
}

Many Thanks

2

anyone?

3

Did you find an answer? I am having the exact same problem

4

In the end I contacted UnityAds directly. This was their response (short answer - No):

Hope this helps.

5

This is dumb. I want to mute ads when my game is mute, but not when my game is not mute… how could this not be an option.

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6

This is fucking ridiculous. My testers have complained about unmuted Ads when they’ve muted my game… and my only possible solution is to permanently mute all Ads for all users!?