Shot Forge

Open the Shot Forge tab, design a shot, press SEND TO UNREAL. The takes land as SoundWaves, alongside a plain SoundCue that plays a random take per trigger and a MetaSound built with Epic's own MetaSound Builder — all in one folder named after your weapon. Hook the cue to your fire event and you are done.

The button follows the view: SIMPLE exports one shot, DETAILED a whole weapon, DUAL FADE two voices that crossfade as the magazine empties.

• The Weapon Bench — four slots and a magazine that counts down. The first round out of a full mag does not sound like the thirtieth, and the last does not sound like the dry click after it.
• Ammo-state export — a SoundCue per slot plus a MetaSound that reads the ammo count and routes a single trigger to the right one.
• Dual fade — two voices whose balance follows the magazine. The maths lives in the graph, so you can retune it in engine.
• 26 layers, 138 parameters — Friedlander muzzle blast, N-wave ballistic crack, ground reflection after Maher 2007, mic saturation after Hacihabiboglu 2017.
• Seeded identity — tweak a control and you are editing the same gun. Save a preset and it loads back identical.
• Variation sets — 5, 10 or 15 distinct takes per import, so automatic fire never repeats itself.
• Royalty free — every sound you generate is yours, any project, no attribution.

Editor-only. It adds nothing to your packaged game. The sounds it builds are ordinary Unreal assets and ship like any other asset.

Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8, Windows editor. Each engine version has its own build.

Requires two plugins that ship with Unreal — Python Editor Script Plugin (runs the import) and MetaSound (the asset type it generates). Both are enabled automatically. Nothing third-party to download.

Assets build under /Game/TAA/ShotForge/YourName/.