Waiting for audio to finish playing before auto-destructing an object
An event may occur (such as an object pickup or the killing of an enemy) that we wish to notify to the player by playing an audio clip, and an associated visual object (such as an explosion particle system, or a temporary object in the location of the event). However, as soon as the clip has finished playing, we will wish for the visual object to be removed from the scene. This recipe provides a simple way to link the ending of a playing audio clip with the automatic destruction of its containing object.
Getting ready
Try this with any audio clip that is a second or more in duration. We have included the engineSound audio clip inside the 1362_09_04 folder.
How to do it...
To wait for audio to finish playing before destroying a GameObject, follow these steps:
Create an Empty GameObject and rename it to AudioObject. Then, add an Audio Source component to this object (in the Component | Audio | Audio Source menu).
Import the
engineSound...
