This is the documentation for Ryle Radio!

Intro

Ryle Radio is a radio-like audio tool for Unity projects. It is intended to emulate the function of a real-world radio, with tuning, spatial broadcasters, and more!

It allows you to set up several Tracks at specific frequencies, tune between them on a RadioListener attached to an AudioSource. These tracks could contain an AudioClip, or procedural audio, or even other RadioTracks to select from. Combining many tracks allows you to develop a complex (or simple) system of audio that can be moved through at runtime.

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Features

  • Tracks linked to specific frequencies (known internally as tune)
  • Gain interacts with played frequencies (user-defined falloff)
  • Spatial broadcasters (areas where certain tracks can be heard)
  • Spatial insulators (areas where certain tracks can’t be heard)
  • Linked to Unity’s audio system (sources, mixers, reverb, etc)
  • Built-in observer events (detect when a track is audible, etc)
  • Premade procedural audio (noise, waveforms)
  • Stations- multiple tracks in one, switching between them over time or on request
  • Integrated attenuation (making tracks quieter when others are playing at the same time)
  • Code integration for modifying radios, tracks, etc in user code
  • Built-in no-code event interactions (play, pause, stop, reset)
  • Open classes for custom components and functionality
  • Dynamic, automatic modularity- all you need to do is implement
  • Premade samples and full documentation
  • Open-source!

I am a little worried that the way I wrote this feature list doesn’t make total sense lol, so check out the Contact section to contact me with any questions :)

Limitations

  • All audio output from a radio is reduced to mono- does reflect real life radios, but could be annoying for more complex audio layouts. Theoretically you could use a different radio for each side as a workaround, but this would take a lot of effort to set up
  • Some parts can’t be modified at runtime- specifically Observers and adding new tracks to stations (the latter of which you technically can do but may require some tinkering, and can easily be worked-around)
  • GitHub repo
  • Asset Store page

Start by checking out the 1. Basic Radio Sample and other samples, followed by (Predicted) Common Issues and Questions. Any other questions or issues, contact me!

Thanks!

This is my first open-source package and my second ever published Unity package, so I hope it works for you and does what you need it to !! :)))