voice question

[skipper]

are people who are makeing mods for HL2 going to put there (other) peoples voices in for the chractors in stead of reading words of the bottom off the screen, as most people now have the have a head set to talk to the computer etc

sorry if this is a dumb question :stare: hehe

 

[The Dark Elf]

I think some plan on it.. Sourceworld will only be using professional voice artists. Some other mods plan to, i dunno about the smaller once, probably friends and family.

But all should keep text, cause not everyone is able to hear. So text (subtitles) should be an option and not left out.

 

[JFry]

I agree about the text thing, not only does it help deaf people, some people just don't want to hear their games (might be listening to music, etc.). To elaborate, not only will most "major" mods have voice acting, the characters mouth can be lipsynced (sp?) to the voice. This can even spill over to multi-player if somebody wanted to, but it would be much less accurate, for bandwidth reasons. I'm not sure whether the game does this on the fly or not, but if it does you could speak into your mic and other people in the game would see your character's lips move in sync with your words. Pretty cool, eh?

 

[The Dark Elf]

I agree about the text thing, not only does it help deaf people, some people just don't want to hear their games (might be listening to music, etc.). To elaborate, not only will most "major" mods have voice acting, the characters mouth can be lipsynced (sp?) to the voice. This can even spill over to multi-player if somebody wanted to, but it would be much less accurate, for bandwidth reasons. I'm not sure whether the game does this on the fly or not, but if it does you could speak into your mic and other people in the game would see your character's lips move in sync with your words. Pretty cool, eh?

I think someone at Valve once said MP lip synching was possible, but a more basic variation. Would maybe go along the lines of audio level, the louder the voice the wider the mouth opens and randomly moves, to a point.. Or something like that. If not its modable

 

[skipper]

thanks