[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

Hi guys, I'm new here. I just have a question, why didn't the ASW makers didn't add voice acting to the game?    ( I hope I'm in the right place to ask  ) Please no harsh replies. I know I'm noob. 

Respect the noob

[General Battuta]

Very few mods have voice acting because it is extremely time and effort-consuming.

[Droid803]

Hi guys, I'm new here. I just have a question, why didn't the ASW makers didn't add voice acting to the game? 

Do you know how an Ancient sounds like?
I don't.

[PsychoLandlord]

You know for some reason, when I played through this, I superimposed "ACK ACK ACK over all the Ancient Dialog. That work?

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

Hi guys, I'm new here. I just have a question, why didn't the ASW makers didn't add voice acting to the game? 

Do you know how an Ancient sounds like?
I don't.

Well, I don't think finding a look or characters for the Ancients is really hard to the people who made that mod.

Very few mods have voice acting because it is extremely time and effort-consuming.

But  ACW is really worth that effort, I mean Microsoft Sam's voice made me hate listening to the briefings, and while playing the game I really can't focus on playing while reading the dialog.   
 

[General Battuta]

Feel free to start a voice acting effort yourself, then; that's how I got involved in Blue Planet.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Very few mods have voice acting because it is extremely time and effort-consuming.

But  ACW is really worth that effort, I mean Microsoft Sam's voice made me hate listening to the briefings, and while playing the game I really can't focus on playing while reading the dialog.   

Then disable Microsoft Sam und read the briefings by yourself.^^

[Jeff Vader]

Hi guys, I'm new here. I just have a question, why didn't the ASW makers didn't add voice acting to the game? 

Do you know how an Ancient sounds like?
I don't.

Well, I don't think finding a look or characters for the Ancients is really hard to the people who made that mod.

But it's not just about finding actors. It's about
- finding actors
- making sure each role is filled with the best possible candidate
- making sure every actor does his/her part
- finding new actors if old ones bail out
- normalizing all the voice files
- making sure all dialogue lines are spoken
- KEEPING EVERYTHING TOGETHER.

If ASW was gonna include voice-acting, we'd probably still be waiting for the release.

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

Hi guys, I'm new here. I just have a question, why didn't the ASW makers didn't add voice acting to the game? 

Do you know how an Ancient sounds like?
I don't.

Well, I don't think finding a look or characters for the Ancients is really hard to the people who made that mod.

But it's not just about finding actors. It's about
- finding actors
- making sure each role is filled with the best possible candidate
- making sure every actor does his/her part
- finding new actors if old ones bail out
- normalizing all the voice files
- making sure all dialogue lines are spoken
- KEEPING EVERYTHING TOGETHER.

If ASW was gonna include voice-acting, we'd probably still be waiting for the release.

Sadly.you're right. I was just thinking if they used softwares like natural reader or something, better then Microsoft Sam, and it has many voices and options. I'm not saying I know more than the people who made the amazing mod. I was just wondering. 

[General Battuta]

Seriously, you could pull it off yourself. I got Blue Planet voice acted with a bit of help from the project leader and Goob, you could probably pull it off for ASW.

Step 1: get Audacity!

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

Seriously, you could pull it off yourself. I got Blue Planet voice acted with a bit of help from the project leader and Goob, you could probably pull it off for ASW.

Step 1: get Audacity!

Are you serious or just being sarcastic? I got audacity btw.

[General Battuta]

Obviously I didn't VA the whole thing myself, but I recruited actors, handed out scripts, collected the lines and got it done, and Blue Planet turned out pretty well (you can judge the voice acting for yourself if you've played it.)

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

Obviously I didn't VA the whole thing myself, but I recruited actors, handed out scripts, collected the lines and got it done, and Blue Planet turned out pretty well (you can judge the voice acting for yourself if you've played it.)

  I don't think finding the voice-actors is really hard for me, as you can tell I'm not a moder or anything, I'm just a fan. So I'm not sure how to do it.  I think I saw bluePlanet's game play on YouTube, British voice acting right?  -Sorry for my English I'm not a native English Speaker-

[General Battuta]

The voice actors came from all over; the trick is recruiting them on boards like Voice Acting Club and Voice Acting Alliance.

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

I see. So any tutorials about modifying and adding voices to the game? If you have any link, please provide me with it.

[General Battuta]

Voice files need to be saved to (yourmod)/data/voice/ and then either /special/, /briefing/, /cb/, a couple others I forget. Voice files should be in .ogg format. Use the events editor in FRED to associate a message with a voice file.

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

  Please give me more detailed information as PM or anything, I'm so interested in adding voice to that mod. I hope I'm not bothering.   

[General Battuta]

That's really just about it, here's a step by step:

1. Take voice files in .ogg format (you can open things and save them as .ogg in Audacity)
2. Name them by whatever scheme makes it easy for you to organize them
3. Place briefing files in [yourmod]/data/voice/briefing, CB files in /data/voice/CB, in-mission files in /data/voice/special, debrief files in /data/voice/debriefing
4. Open a mission in FRED, go into the events editor, select a message, look at the 'sound file' field under the message editor on the right side of the events editor, hit 'browse' and select the voice file that matches the message
5. Save the mission

[ImOnlyHereToAsk]

I think I got every bit except opening a mission in FRED, how to do that? :S
Oh never mind Mr, I'll just learn it from the "Help section" thank you very much.

[General Battuta]

Use the FRED executables in your FreeSpace 2 folder. If you can't find a mission you want to open (say ASW), you may need to extract it from the VPs using VPView or Maja, which are free online.