# General Setup

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<summary>Step 1: Buy the Sound Metering Component Asset Pack</summary>

Buy Sound Metering Component from the Unreal Engine Marketplace

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/uTNRpbjS1YpPe1xgEAHF/blobs/e2J6jM2cpfZhMR1ckOCA/image.png)

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<summary>Step 2: Add to Project</summary>

If you have an already existing project, then click "Add To Project".

Otherwise, create a new project on any supported UE5 versions, [choose a template that includes a character](#user-content-fn-1)[^1], then click "Add To Project".

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<summary>Step 3: Setting up the Player</summary>

## New Player setup:

For a detailed new Player setup, visit the page below:

[player-setup](https://multicore-games.gitbook.io/sound-metering-component-or-ue5-documentation/setup-and-implementation/getting-set-up/player-setup "mention")

## Demo Player setup:

#### The pack provides a playable first-person character that you can use at:

<mark style="color:green;">Content -> SoundMeter\_Component -> Demo Content -> Blueprints -> BP\_FirstPersonCharacter</mark>

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/uTNRpbjS1YpPe1xgEAHF/blobs/Q7ESiZQLO7jxOcehDXa4/image.png)

#### To spawn it by default, go to:&#x20;

<mark style="color:green;">World Settings -> GameMode Override</mark>&#x20;

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/uTNRpbjS1YpPe1xgEAHF/blobs/yiOfNmilaO0MQJRHpRIU/image.png)

#### Choose the Game Mode from:

<mark style="color:green;">Content -> SoundMeter\_Component -> Demo Content -> Blueprints -> BP\_FirstPersonGameMode</mark>

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/uTNRpbjS1YpPe1xgEAHF/blobs/qCC3WyHnH7rPNfUhPnXE/image.png)

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<summary>Opening the Demo level</summary>

The demo level includes examples of all features of the **Sound Metering Component**, each with interactive examples and use cases.

#### Open the demo level at:

<mark style="color:green;">Content -> SoundMeter\_Component -> Demo Content -> Maps -> Demo\_LVL</mark>

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[^1]: First-Person or Third-Person