Creating SOM Occluder in Blender

Authors

TheParaziT

Need to know

• How to work in Blender
• How to work with Blender X-Ray Addon
• What is a Static Object
• What is a Sound Occluder Mesh
• What is a Game Material

About

SOM occluders are needed to calculate sound propagation.

Start

For example, let’s create such an object for a building with a large space inside.

Building example:

Create a cube and simply replicate the interior of the building.

Surface

Go to Material Properties.

Create a separate material for our SOM occluder.

In X-Ray Engine: Material choose:

Shader

Choose any Engine Shader for Static Object (list of all Engine Shaders)

Compiler

Any Compiler Shader (list of all Compiler Shaders)

Material

Choose or create new Game Material (list of all Game Materials)

Finish

Go to Object Properties.

In X-Ray Engine: Object select Sound Occluder in Type list.

This completes the setup of the SOM Occluder. You can safely export it in the model format you need.