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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0021883 | AI War 2 | Suggestion | Oct 23, 2019 2:42 pm | Dec 5, 2019 8:32 pm | |
| Reporter | Apthorpe | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.001 Official Game Launch! | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 1.013 Menacing Messages From The Machine | ||||
| Summary | 0021883: AI Taunts as Text | ||||
| Description | It would be nice to be able to read the taunts and messages from the AI as text. I'm not a big fan of the AI voice so I'd prefer to just turn it off, but I still like reading the taunts. A subtle audio cue for when a taunt message shows up would be gravy. If there's already a way to have this show up as text (or if I've just been missing the existing text somehow!), please let me know. | ||||
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I second this, since I can't understand most of what the AI is saying (haven't played with the mixing settings to see if it helps yet). |
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So the audio request starts at the C# hook (lets say in "DoOnAnyDeath()" for a unit dying). It then gets sent to the Core Vis code where it requests a voice playback. It then goes through the External Vis code where it calls request.SoundClip.TryToPlayRandom(). This goes to the Universal code where it is handled by ArcenVoiceGroup.cs::TryToPlayRandom_Internal() The code picks a random AudioClip object out of the available entries in the ArcenVoiceGroup (the AI Taunts group in this case), then plays it. An AudioClip is a unity object, not an Arcen object. I put in some debug logging that looks like this 10/28/2019 1:39:46 PM Playing AITaunt_AISendsWave (Arcen.Universal.ArcenVoiceGroup) 10/28/2019 1:39:46 PM Handling playback request for AITaunt_AISendsWave (Arcen.Universal.ArcenVoiceGroup) <=== in BattleFieldVisualSingleton 10/28/2019 1:39:46 PM ArcenVoice: For ArcenVoiceGroup AITaunt_AISendsWave Clips: 9 <=== in the Universal code Bus: MinTimeBetweenPlaysOfGroup: 30 MinTimeBetweenPlaysOfEachItem: 300 timeOfLastPlay: -1 timeSinceLastPlay: 31.75234 play <There's going to be a lot of scrap_3 (UnityEngine.AudioClip)> I'm not sure how we could attach metadata to the clip in the prefab with the text. If someone was willing to go through the clips, change the name of each clip to be exactly the words of the clip, then redo the prefab that's one approach. If the text of the clip winds up in ArcenUniversal it would then take some coding work to get that information into Core, External or External Visualization where we could print the text to the screen, but right now it looks impossible without Chris doing some Unity specific work. |
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I'll just add onto this instead of making a separate issue - I don't know how things work in terms of playing the sounds but if there's anything that could be done to make them more decipherable that would be quite useful also. The only way to understand what the AI is saying right know is to make it much louder than everything else. IMO it's more extreme than the barely-understandable speech from Classic. |
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It's pretty hard to understand, though I think that may also be because the lines last a lot longer. AI War 1 taunts were often more succinct. |
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Thanks! * When AI taunts play, they now also drop a chat-style message for you to see them. ** If you have voices turned off, then these won't show up at all. If you have just turned the volume way down on the voice channel or AI taunts channel, then you WILL still see these. ** It is colorized and identifies itself as either being from the overlord, hunter, or warden as the case requires. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Oct 23, 2019 2:42 pm | Apthorpe | New Issue | |
| Oct 23, 2019 3:58 pm | Asteroid | Note Added: 0053877 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 3:45 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Added: 0054070 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 3:45 pm | BadgerBadger | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Oct 28, 2019 3:45 pm | BadgerBadger | Status | new => assigned |
| Oct 28, 2019 3:46 pm | BadgerBadger | Note Edited: 0054070 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 7:32 pm | Strategic Sage | Note Added: 0054083 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 9:38 pm | Orelius | Note Added: 0054085 | |
| Dec 5, 2019 8:32 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Dec 5, 2019 8:32 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Dec 5, 2019 8:32 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Fixed in Version | => 1.013 Menacing Messages From The Machine |
| Dec 5, 2019 8:32 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0054846 |
