This topic describes how to make Wwise sound bank information available to a 3ds Max Interactive project.
The wwise export step copies wwise generated bank and stream files to the interactive project, renaming them with new file types and adding platform specific naming. In addition a .wwise_dep file is created per sound bank. These dependency files are the resources which must be referred to in packages such as boot package.
By default, the Wwise project is set up to export sound bank assets to the "wwise" directory of your interactive project. This is configured in the post bank generation steps in the Project Settings for the Wwise project.
When the interactive editor creates a new Wwise project, it sets up some post-generation steps that tell the Wwise authoring tool to copy the generated sound banks into the source folder of the 3ds Max Interactive project. This configuration uses a relative path from the location of the Wwise project to the 3ds Max Interactive project. This means that your Wwise project and your 3ds Max Interactive project must remain in the same relative location on disk. If the relative path from the Wwise project to your interactive project is different, the Wwise authoring tool won't be able to export the sound banks into your interactive project.
If you want to move your Wwise project so that it is in a different location relative to your interactive project, you must update these bank generation steps manually to point to the correct location.
You can do this in the Wwise Authoring Tool:
Select Project > Project Settings... from the main menu.
On the Soundbanks tab of the Project Settings window, find the "Post-Generation Step" list.
For each platform in turn, double-click the entry in the list. In the Post-Generation Step Editor window that appears, find the relative path to your 3ds Max Interactive project in the Commands box and adjust it to the new relative path. By default, this will look something like "$(WwiseProjectPath)\../my_project_name"
If the 3ds Max Interactive tools are located on a different hard drive than the project's source folder, an absolute path will be configured to reference the wwise_exporter.exe tool in the post bank generation steps. In this case, to minimize issues with source control, each team user can install the 3ds Max Interactive tools on the same drive letter in the same path.