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Title: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: CapnQwerty on May 03, 2016, 09:47:14 pm

Simulated speech isn't working in any part of the game, and I can't figure out why. I've tried setting it to play for briefings, in-mission and in the tech room in the launcher, but it doesn't work in any of them. I tried running the launcher in Administrator mode, but that didn't work either.

I tried searching through the Hard-Light forums for a solution, but the only thing potentially useful I found was an FAQ mentioning how some versions of FS2_Open don't have simulated speech functional. Is that the case for Diaspora?

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: niffiwan on May 03, 2016, 09:58:47 pm

I thought that Diaspora was fully voice acted, so you shouldn't need simulated speech?

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: karajorma on May 03, 2016, 10:35:38 pm

It is, but if you're playing 3rd person missions, you could use the simulated speech.



It's quite possible (probable even) that the build we shipped didn't have simulated speech activated when I built it. You can use any later build which does have speech though.

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: CapnQwerty on May 04, 2016, 10:31:16 am

I already have the 1.1 and 1.1.1 updates installed. Or are you talking about something different?

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: karajorma on May 04, 2016, 11:48:50 am

Yeah, I meant something like FS2_Open 3.7.4 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=91623.0). That should have voice synth built in and should work fine with Diaspora.

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: CapnQwerty on May 04, 2016, 12:52:23 pm

Ok. I tried running the fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2 application, and got this:

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Web cursor bitmap not found.  This is most likely due to one of three reasons:
   1) You're running FreeSpace Open from somewhere other than your FreeSpace 2 folder;
   2) You've somehow corrupted your FreeSpace 2 installation, e.g. by modifying or removing the retail VP files;
   3) You haven't installed FreeSpace 2 at all.  (Note that installing FreeSpace Open does NOT remove the need for a FreeSpace 2 installation.)
Number 1 can be fixed by simply moving the FreeSpace Open executable file to the FreeSpace 2 folder.  Numbers 2 and 3 can be fixed by installing or reinstalling FreeSpace 2.

ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 12 bytes
KERNELBASE.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! SCP_DumpStack + 213 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! Error + 230 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! gr_init + 865 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! game_init + 656 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! game_main + 330 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! WinMain + 222 bytes
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC1_SSE2.exe! __scrt_common_main_seh + 253 bytes
KERNEL32.DLL! BaseThreadInitThunk + 36 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlUnicodeStringToInteger + 595 bytes
ntdll.dll! RtlUnicodeStringToInteger + 542 bytes

If I understand the error message correctly, the problem stems from the fact that I don't own a copy of Freespace 2; I just downloaded Diaspora. Does this mean if I want to get simulated speech working, I'd have to go buy the game?

Also, I saw on that page you linked that there's a newer version of the wxLauncher. Should I get that, or is the one that came with Diaspora fine?

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: karajorma on May 04, 2016, 09:29:13 pm

Nope, the problem is that the file isn't in the Diaspora folder. As soon as you put it in the same folder as the other copies of FS2_Open, it should start to work.

Title: Re: Simulated Speech Problems
Post by: CapnQwerty on May 05, 2016, 09:08:15 am

Yep, that did it. Thank you very much!