How to best implement Sfx ON/OFF toggles in the pause menu

[BogdanDude]

Hello!

I'm trying to implement the option to turn the SFX on or off, and also the music on or off from an ingame pause menu.

So far I checked on every gameobject that had an Audiosource on them if a variable on another game object is true or false. So, if 'sfxOn' was true, it would play the sound.
The problem is that when the SFX button is turned on or off in the pause options menu, I'm not sure how to update that variable on every gameobject. The hard way could be to call a Broadcast message on a parent of all gameobject and tell them to switch their own sfxOn bool variable.

I guess a much easier way could be to use a static variable for sfxOn. Could you please write me a simple line of code how to access a static variable from another gameobject and keep a reference to it (if possible, in the Awake method).

If you have some easier methods to implement switching sound on and off (and still keep the music and sound effects as separate options), please let me know.

Thanks a lot,
Bogdan

[Eric5h5]

I made a function for playing sounds and also one for music, so I call those when playing audio. The functions use the normal Unity sound routines, but also have a bit of code to check to see if sounds/music should be played or not. If not, they don't do anything: