Conversation tutorial - Revision history

Sunjammer: Fixing image

2011-08-10T22:36:47Z

Fixing image

Kelamor: Add languages template

2010-11-12T08:02:00Z

Add languages template

FollowTheGourd: Added troubleshooting section and linked to conversation history not showing up. Extra write-up for a tutorial reader.

2010-11-12T05:41:13Z

Added troubleshooting section and linked to conversation history not showing up. Extra write-up for a tutorial reader.

AmstradHero at 06:44, 24 September 2010

2010-09-24T06:44:27Z

AmstradHero at 06:43, 24 September 2010

2010-09-24T06:43:26Z

Mdpaustin: /* Creating and setting a conversation for a creature */

2010-05-11T19:12:53Z

‎Creating and setting a conversation for a creature

BryanDerksen: /* Voice-over and FaceFX */ link

2010-02-03T18:47:33Z

‎Voice-over and FaceFX: link

BryanDerksen: {{Infobox conversation}}

2010-02-03T17:52:53Z

Kemayo at 04:33, 9 November 2009

2009-11-09T04:33:51Z

Ixobelle: /* Adding some dialog */

2009-11-07T07:33:34Z

‎Adding some dialog

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 Also on this page are a number of checkboxes for locking cinematics. This is usually used to prevent the toolset from generating new automatic animations after you've fine-tuned things manually, we won't need to worry about that for now.
-Once the conversation resource is created, we'll need to tell the quest_giver creature that he's supposed to use it when the player tries to talk to him. Open the quest giver in the creature editor and change his "Conversation" property from the default (none) to "conv_quest_giver" by pressing the ellipsis ([[Image:ellipsis.png]]) button and selecting the conv_quest_giver dialog.
+Once the conversation resource is created, we'll need to tell the quest_giver creature that he's supposed to use it when the player tries to talk to him. Open the quest giver in the creature editor and change his "Conversation" property from the default (none) to "conv_quest_giver" by pressing the ellipsis ([[Image:ellipsis.png|link=]]) button and selecting the conv_quest_giver dialog.
 == Adding some dialog ==

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 Note that when you are doing a [[Builder_to_player]] create, you do not need to include the .wav files within the package. The sound used by the game is all stored in the .fsb files, and thus including the .wav files will only unnecessarily increase the size of mod.
 [[Category:Conversations]]
 [[Category:Tutorials]]

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 A quick way to verify that voice over generation worked after processing: go to ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[moduleuid]\core\override\toolsetexport\[conversationname].fsb and play it with windows media player. You will hear all of the vo lines for that conversation packaged together with whatever combination of real and robo vo all slapped together in one file.
-Note that when you are doing a [[Builder_to_player][Builder to Player]] create, you do not need to include the .wav files within the package. The sound used by the game is all stored in the .fsb files, and thus including the .wav files will only unnecessarily increase the size of mod.
+Note that when you are doing a [[Builder_to_player]] create, you do not need to include the .wav files within the package. The sound used by the game is all stored in the .fsb files, and thus including the .wav files will only unnecessarily increase the size of mod.
 [[Category:Conversations]]
 [[Category:Tutorials]]

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 A quick way to verify that voice over generation worked after processing: go to ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[moduleuid]\core\override\toolsetexport\[conversationname].fsb and play it with windows media player. You will hear all of the vo lines for that conversation packaged together with whatever combination of real and robo vo all slapped together in one file.
 [[Category:Conversations]]
 [[Category:Tutorials]]

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 These settings have defaults that will be perfectly good for a conversation between a PC and a single NPC, as we will be doing here. The "OWNER" of the conversation will be the creature the conversation is attached to - in this case, Quest Giver. The "PLAYER" is, of course, the player's character.
-*Default NPC Speaker: This is the the creature who, by default, responds to the player's dialog selections.
+*Default NPC Speaker: This is the creature who, by default, responds to the player's dialog selections.
 *Default NPC Listener: This is the creature who the NPC is directing those responses to. This is used to determine who the NPC should turn his head toward when speaking.
 *Default PC Listener: This is the creature who the PC is talking to when he makes dialog selections, determining who the PC's avatar turns his head toward.

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 * You need to have voice-over recorded to generate a facial performance with FaceFX.
 * You can generate a basic placeholder voice-over automatically.
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-Every line of dialog in Dragon Age can have voice-over recorded for it, which as one might imagine can be a daunting task. As a temporary measure during game development you can instead generate a temporary placeholder voice-over using a basic speech synthesis program. Under "Tools" select "Generate VO" and synthesized voice-over will be added to every line.
+Every line of dialog in Dragon Age can have [[voice-over]] recorded for it, which as one might imagine can be a daunting task. As a temporary measure during game development you can instead generate a temporary placeholder voice-over using a basic speech synthesis program. Under "Tools" select "Generate VO" and synthesized voice-over will be added to every line.
 [[Image:Conversation generate VO.png]]
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 [[Image:Conversation edit FaceFX.png]]
-To record your own voice-over, you'll need some method for recording your voice (Windows comes with a basic sound-recording program but other more sophisticated programs are available free for download as well) as a wav file. The wav file must be recorded in or converted to PCM 24 khz 16 bit mono format, otherwise the process will fail and an unhelpful error message will be displayed.
+To record your own [[voice-over]], you'll need some method for recording your voice (Windows comes with a basic sound-recording program but other more sophisticated programs are available free for download as well) as a wav file. The wav file must be recorded in or converted to PCM 24 khz 16 bit mono format, otherwise the process will fail and an unhelpful error message will be displayed.
 Real vo needs to be stored in ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[moduleuid]\module\override\toolsetexport\[lineid]_m.wav - you can dump wav files anywhere under the toolsetexport directory and they will be picked up but for organizational purposes you should probably organize it into subfolders grouped by conversation.

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	Dialog is perhaps the most important part of making an adventure into a story. In Dragon Age, dialog is a collection of lines that are arranged in an interactive tree-shaped structure. This tree structure can be simple or complex, and each line can have conditions and actions attached to it that interact with the state of the world at large.		Dialog is perhaps the most important part of making an adventure into a story. In Dragon Age, dialog is a collection of lines that are arranged in an interactive tree-shaped structure. This tree structure can be simple or complex, and each line can have conditions and actions attached to it that interact with the state of the world at large.

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 To record your own voice-over, you'll need some method for recording your voice (Windows comes with a basic sound-recording program but other more sophisticated programs are available free for download as well) as a wav file. The wav file must be recorded in or converted to PCM 24 khz 16 bit mono format, otherwise the process will fail and an unhelpful error message will be displayed.
-Real vo needs to be stored in ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[modulename]\module\override\toolsetexport\[lineid]_m.wav - you can dump wav files anywhere under the toolsetexport directory and they will be picked up but for organizational purposes you should probably organize it into subfolders grouped by conversation.
+Real vo needs to be stored in ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[moduleuid]\module\override\toolsetexport\[lineid]_m.wav - you can dump wav files anywhere under the toolsetexport directory and they will be picked up but for organizational purposes you should probably organize it into subfolders grouped by conversation.
 The wav file's filename must be of the form "[lineid]_m.wav" with [lineid] replaced by the ID number for the conversation line's string table entry. For example, if a conversation's line ID number is 344169, you'd save the voice over for this line as "344169_m.wav".
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 When you select "generate vo" from the toolset, the toolset will first check the above directory for properly named files. Any wav files that are not present will have robo vo created, and any that do exist will be used as-is.
-A quick way to verify that voice over generation worked after processing: go to ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[modulename]\core\override\toolsetexport\[conversationname].fsb and play it with windows media player. You will hear all of the vo lines for that conversation packaged together with whatever combination of real and robo vo all slapped together in one file.
+A quick way to verify that voice over generation worked after processing: go to ~installpath~\Dragon Age\addins\[moduleuid]\core\override\toolsetexport\[conversationname].fsb and play it with windows media player. You will hear all of the vo lines for that conversation packaged together with whatever combination of real and robo vo all slapped together in one file.
 [[Category:Conversations]]
 [[Category:Tutorials]]

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 [[Image:Conversation tutorial 2.png]]
-The linked line is shown in gray. To find out where a grey line links to, right-click on it and select "Jump to Target". To find all the places the target line is linked to from, right-click on it and select "Find Links"
+The linked line is shown in gray. To find out where a grey line links to, right-click on it and select "Jump to Target" (or just double click it). To find all the places the target line is linked to from, right-click on it and select "Find Links"
 Now both of these paths through the conversation will lead to the same line, wherein the Quest Giver tells the player that the hut behind him is full of monsters. We can add an option to the dialog after this where the player can accept the mission to slay them all, and now when he enters the hut to fight them there will be more of a story behind about how he came to that point.