[karajorma]

I had a very similar conversation with Goober about practically the same question earlier this week. The problem I found is varying descriptions of the strncpy function.

However, I found this on the MSDN page.

Security Note
strncpy does not check for sufficient space in strDest; it is therefore a potential cause of buffer overruns. Keep in mind that count limits the number of characters copied; it is not a limit on the size of strDest. See the example below.

Sometimes I *really* miss IndexOutOfBoundsException. Which is ironic considering the number of times I've cursed at it.

[eaterofpies]

I only remembered it because we did some stuff on stack smashing at uni and our lecturer basically said always use memcpy.

IIRC the current code ive uploaded uses memcpy then forces the last byte to \0 so that 1 it wont overflow and 2 the last byte will always be \0 (otherwise it would be uninitialised.

Cheers for the info and letting me know im doing it roughly right

Steve

[colecampbell666]

Doesn't BtRl (the demo) have a voicepack, or are you talking exclusively about the techroom. It would be good if someone could implement the standard techroom speech for capella/fs1 era mods with many of the same ships, and if people actuallyincluded tech descriptions in their mods. How come people don't already do this?

[eaterofpies]

the BtRL demo does have a voicepack for most of the stuff but the tech room and player released missions dont.

Im not entirely sure what you mean in the second part.

All this modification does is search the text sent to the text to speech for a word (eg viper) and replaces the text with something that the computer will pronounce correctly(eg. vi'per) the replacelemts are listed in the sounds.tbl file so in theory any mod could do this.

[Trivial Psychic]

I think he means voice acted techroom descriptions.  The game never shipped with any, and in fact there is no support ATM for matching techroom descriptions with pre-recorded audio files.  What I'd like to see, is the ability to specify different sim-speech voices for different messages.  For example, if we can get say 7 different sim-speech voices, a campaign designer could vary them around in-mission so you don't always have the same voice for every character.  Granted, getting your hands on more than the basic 3 voices isn't exactly easy... not that coding this wouldn't be hard either.

[colecampbell666]

Sry about that post, I wa thinking that Fs had techroom voice. It would still be a nice feature.