FMOD Studio Now FREE For Indie Developers!*
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- FMOD Studio is now free for indie developers with a but*
* revenue limitations apply.
On the whole it's all pretty fair. We go into full details in the video below and in the linked article.
Link:
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Link:
gamefromscratch.com/fmod-studio-now-free-for-indie-game-developers/
FMOD was free for indies before too, the only real difference now is that you can make unlimited games at any time while before you could only make 1 commercial game in 1 (or 2?) years
As one of the FMOD GDNative maintainer, I'd like to says that yes, we are still supporting Fmod plugin with utopia-rise team.
We have plans to make this plugin better like making ready to use fmod nodes.
For now we have a lot of work on kotlin support for godot, so we paused our objectives on FMOD.
Anyway we will provide new releases along with engine updates, and enhance this plugin once we have less work with Kotlin integration.
Even if we have paused development of new features while working on kotlin, we will make fixes if issues are found.
Also feel free to contribute ! :)
Nice! Thanks for the update. I wish I was grossing 200k or had a budget of 500k, gonna keep grinding it out until then.
Thats fucking huge. I love this new model of letting students learn with their tools, and when they make money they pay up.
I remember back when FMOD was only a library that allowed playback of “exotic” audio formats like Impulse Tracker and XMIDI!
You mean modules ? Thats where mod came from. Scream Tracker 3 unite!
I remember too, but I used Bass library though (by Un4seen) because it worked with Visual Basic 6!!
It still can, you just need to use the low-level (core) system. You can use them in an FMOD Studio project by using programmer instruments.
"What is an FMOD?" You want the serious answer, or......?
Well, as you ask, I'd like your answer in the form of a 3 hour, full orchestral piece that's in the style of Tchaikovsky. ;-)
@@lwaves XD
FMOD is a middleware which takes out from the programmer all the sound design responsibility and gives full control of the sound logic to the sound designer himself. So it's make sense to use this tool since programmers generally are not musicians and musicians does not program.
That darned asterisk
Who makes 200k a year anyway
Lovely news in last few years industry is drastically changing and for better we have more tools to develop our dream games to the community.
I have checked out fmod a few times and still don't see a compelling reason to use it. It appears to me that fmod is practical if the shop actually has a 'sound department' where there are people who are in charge of sound and nothing else - it makes it so their workspace is entirely in fmod and the sound assets are accessed purely through the game engine's fmod interface.
Not much of a reason there to use it unless you're the 'dedicated sound guy'.
That sounds great tbh.. is there something similar that is completely free for Godot though? I would be really interested in a video about fmod ^^
At last! It's about time.
The thing is... with all these monster engines out there, I'm not sure I'll still have any use for FMOD. The art of knowing when the time is right. Better late than never though.
Yay! Time to learn me some FMOD
If you contract out your audio could whomever you contract essentially use this for free or how does that situation apply?
A license for FMOD is required if/when you release the game commercially. During development no license is required according to the FAQ.
How do these "yearly revenue" clauses work exactly? What happens if you start from zero and then, by luck, exceed $200,000? Couldn't you just say you used Audacity to mix/record your sounds?
Good question
Hell yeah we need answers
or ardour
yeah, you could.
But if they find out and can prove it, you will get sued.
Same as with winRar. you COULD use the free version for a company, but you might get sued if it comes out. For any normal company, the yearly fee is nothing compared to potential legal trouble
@@kcbsuiejd how would they find out exactly? I mean I could use FMOD and then convert the audio into ogg format using Audacity and then use that audio file. Do they have the ability to track the absolute source of the audio?
I can't tell from the description... is FMod sold or rented?
Is it like Photoshop and Substance Painter, where you pay a yearly rental fee to rent it, or do you pay for it and then it's yours?
(or free and it's yours if you follow the rules)
This is essentially a Digital audio workstation built into game engines lol.
Today this is available for GameMaker too
what if I have a custom engine that won't be sold and make a project with that that otherwise qualifies. Could I then use fmod on the engine side? (As in, is the engine restriction only applicable if the engine itself is a product?)
Do I need to license FMOD when I use it with Unity having a Unity license? And what are the disadvantages since this appears to be cheaper.
Hasn't it been free? I'm pretty sure it was...
It was limited to a single game per studio
@@nofuturo I believe it was one free shipped title per year under the indie tier and then you had to pay for any extra titles shipped that year.
what would be the difference with other DAW´s like Reaper for example?
This isn't really a DAW. It's more for composing and mixing game ready sounds. It's DAW like in it's composition and mixing functionality, but you would generally for example compose your soundtrack into a DAW, then import it into FMOD (plus your dialog, sound effects, etc) and FMOD would handle things like environmentally positioning the soundtrack, or mixing it with other sounds, or setting up dynamic game driven triggers, etc.
@@gamefromscratch FMOD is a middleware which takes out from the programmer all the sound design responsibility and gives full control of the sound logic to the sound designer himself. So it's make sense to use this tool since programmers generally are not musicians and musicians does not program.
@@RodrigoBadin Is there an advantage of using FMOD if I am a solo developer to just using Unity's or Godot's built-in tools?
@@gamefromscratch thanks!!
@@no-trick-pony while the tool is focused to help separate roles, still can be useful for solo developer because is way easier to manage sound assets and sound logic, and dynamic music with FMOD rather doing all on the engine side.
Where the hell do you collect all this info?
When I saw your name I thought there was a crack in the screen
Lol
Good!
Please somebody tell me what is an fmod ? Thank you
FMOD is a middleware which takes out from the programmer all the sound design responsibility and gives full control of the sound logic to the sound designer himself. So it's make sense to use this tool since programmers generally are not musicians and musicians does not program.
@@RodrigoBadin oh, thanks, because i was wondering all this stuff you can do in blueprints so why pay for fmod ?
oh yes!
is getting 100/200k$+ a year becoming common now for games or something? I keep seeing a lot of engines doing stuff like this, but I always hear about how most quality indie games struggle to even make near $50k
The USD 200K limit for FMOD/Unity etc. sounds a lot, and in fact very few indie developers will earn this much, but the USD 200K limit isn't for earnings, it is total revenue, which includes any money going through the company, including salaries, rent etc. So a small game studio with five employee will easily exceed the USD 200K limit, even if they never earn anything from their game. And the revenue is per company/organisation, not per game/project. So if e.g. a non-profit food bank that distributes donated food worth USD 250K each year with the help of volunteers only wants to create a small promotion game in Unity to raise more donations, they aren't allowed to use the Unity Free or Plus licence, instead they are required to get a Unity Pro license for USD 1800/year. The fact that the food is donated and not really related to the game doesn't matter, revenue is all value that passes through the company.
@@faduci ahhhh this makes a lot more sense! Guess I was paying too much attention to the numbers and not the details. Thanks for the info!
hey guys... on somewhat related news SpeedTree is given a one year license for free for indie developers... check their website
I saw nothing specific? Got a link
@@gamefromscratch they fix it and now is 699 per year for indie developers store.speedtree.com/store/speedtree-games-indie/
Yayyyyyyy
I just watched half a video that said nothing about what a software is not only about it's license before the software itself was even defined
A lot of people already know about FMOD, which is why the changes to licensing was covered first. Then he showed a few examples for those who didn't.
looks like Ableton Live 1.0. ;)
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I never heard before the fmod but im terable wean i tried to create my sounds for my video games i know haw to mack semple sounds edit from existing but that is all i don't know haw to mack my own saounds and definitely the only good news there is free sounds on the indernet
Looks like people haven't explored multimedia Software on Linux yet
yes!
I installed it before this vid lmao
*futur vizyon 100
Is it a paid audicity?
no
From what I understand no, it integrates with your game engine so your game triggers an ingame event for example and your FMOD setup deals with playing the correct sounds for it and mixing them together appropriately. I don't know if that is helpful if you work on a "small" solo game, then again Celeste uses it too.
@@no-trick-pony Can't you already do this inside an engine like say Unity without the need for additional software?
First time i hear about fmod.
What if someone is earning 199K a year
Seems pretty cut and dry. Earn $199,999.99 USD and you're fine. 1 cent more and you've gotta cough up (but I am sure that is affordable at that point).
What the F is Fmod?
A game company that makes 500k you have to buy a license.
you only get one chance. i if you create a shitty game you don't have to pay a license.
if you created a good game and reach a million subs, 500K dollars - million dollars sales. you have to buy a license. So there is RISK!!! So, how does the company know you make a million dollars? Selling Games
FtopayrespectMOD
Looks like copied Ableton Live
davinci resolve all you ever need and its already known...has more features etc....
davinci isn't an audio engine... this is for direct integration into game engines in order to do things like high quality reverb, distance-blending, occlusion, hrtf, etc
@@albarnie1168 really cause i can and have used it to splice and edit videos with sound
you dont get what it can and cant do with tracks and thus you are limited....
th-cam.com/video/XkKdYzf1two/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=chronosschiron
lil example tossed together with free audio youtube provides
@@albarnie1168 p.s. that was cinematics made in unreal and then brought into davinci and uploaded direct to youtube
your talking about games while im at the cinematic end that is royalty free in unreal engines new terms a service
i can easily also import into unreal but separating also allows me to keep assets in one place and th esound outside so i can have people do things
Hey Chronoss, you didn't really get what FMOD is there for. Yes, Davinci Resolves Fairlight is indeed an audio engine - you can use it as a DAW even - but while you can edit media/tracks (and write music in Davinci), there really is no integration with Unreal Engine / Unity, etc.
FMOD does exactly that. It basically understands how to communicate with a game engine in a way that lets you bind the media you work with to triggers within the game engine. That allows you to bind sounds to events and triggers within a game and be used in real-time / interactively.
The example you have uploaded is a render with attached music. So you see, while Davinci is surely great and powerful, it is definitely limited in these regards, as it is (unlike FMOD) not designed for that kind of job.