Walking sound in 3D , synchronise with steps

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Godot Version

4.5 Stable Mac OS

Question

How do you make step sounds synchronise with walk animation of character3dbody ?

I was looking in TPS Demo , there is placeholder for step sound but was never used , rest like jump, shoot are using code like

in player_input.gd

# This is handled via RPC for now
@export var jumping := false

	if Input.is_action_just_pressed("jump"):
		jump.rpc()

@rpc("call_local")
func jump():
	jumping = true

and player.gd

enum ANIMATIONS {JUMP_UP, JUMP_DOWN, STRAFE, WALK}
const JUMP_SPEED = 5

@onready var sound_effect_jump = sound_effects.get_node("Jump")
@onready var sound_effect_land = sound_effects.get_node("Land")


	if anim == ANIMATIONS.JUMP_UP:
		animation_tree["parameters/state/transition_request"] = "jump_up"

	elif anim == ANIMATIONS.JUMP_DOWN:
		animation_tree["parameters/state/transition_request"] = "jump_down"

rpc("call_local")
func jump():
	animate(ANIMATIONS.JUMP_UP)
	sound_effect_jump.play()


@rpc("call_local")
func land():
	animate(ANIMATIONS.JUMP_DOWN)
	sound_effect_land.play()

I’m trying to figure out how to make it for walk, I thought to use timer, but all results end up delayed or play nearly always :frowning:

Demo which I was looking inside GitHub - godotengine/tps-demo: Godot Third Person Shooter with high quality assets and lighting , unfortunately walk sound is not done in code, but asset is available

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Ok I found this piece of info in Starter Kit FPS by Kenney in AssetLibrary

	# Movement sound
	
	sound_footsteps.stream_paused = true
	
	if is_on_floor():
		if abs(velocity.x) > 1 or abs(velocity.z) > 1:
			sound_footsteps.stream_paused = false

interestingly it using 4.9 seconds long sample with is paused when velocity is lower , so not quite in sync but for FPS it do

Platformer using different approach

@onready var sound_footsteps = $SoundFootsteps
func handle_effects(delta):

	particles_trail.emitting = false
	sound_footsteps.stream_paused = true

	if is_on_floor():
		var horizontal_velocity = Vector2(velocity.x, velocity.z)
		var speed_factor = horizontal_velocity.length() / movement_speed / delta
		if speed_factor > 0.05:
			if animation.current_animation != "walk":
				animation.play("walk", 0.1)

			if speed_factor > 0.3:
				sound_footsteps.stream_paused = false
				sound_footsteps.pitch_scale = speed_factor

			if speed_factor > 0.75:
				particles_trail.emitting = true

		elif animation.current_animation != "idle":
			animation.play("idle", 0.1)
			
		if animation.current_animation == "walk":
			animation.speed_scale = speed_factor
		else:
			animation.speed_scale = 1.0

it changing pitch based on speed_factor but also it doesn’t make sound of single step , so not sync properly

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Maybe this will help?

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Thank you , I have read it but not sure how to use it as there is no example of AnimationTree combined animation and sound.

So It’s same like any other property just add key for play , but how to synchronise with , walk , run etc . I tried add like three but it sounds constantly when press walk no pauses like for steps , be great if there is some more info as steps are one of the basic thing to have synched to visual/ sound