triggering a 2d sound via script

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to trigger a 2-d sfx in my game via script and can’t figure out how to do so. I’ve had no problem triggering 3-d sounds, and the portion of my script is getting called, but I get an error about an object reference not being set to an instance of an object.

I have the 3d box unchecked in the Audio importer options. Is there a certain script function I need to call to let the engine know not to attach the sound to a GameObject, but let it play in 2d? (I’m currently scripting in C#, but can probably translate javascript if you have an idea). thanks for any help!

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The sound still needs to be attached to a game object (via an Audio Source component). It just won’t have 3D positional panning.

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thanks for the clarification. I’ve set up another sound to stream from the internet. It plays, but it’s playing positionally. Is there a way to make a streamed sound play 2-d? I can set the audioSource to min and max volume of 1 and a rolloff of 0, but the sound still moves based on the position of the GameObject I have my AudioSource and script attached to. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

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I saw on the RSS feed that people were having problems with streamed audio coming in as mono in every case. I bet this is related.