The voice work for my mod contains of two parts which are not quite separate but a bit lonked:
- Part one is for the "Kilrathi mod". Its goal is to replace all generic terran wingmen voices we hear when certain events in the engine occur with Kilrathi ones. Tolwyn has already told me he could do Kilrathi voices (he was the one who did them for Saga) when I send him my script but I don't really know what he's doing, just that all Kilrathi he did so far sounded good.
I have to talk to him again.
So basically I need four to six different full sets of Kilrathi voices with the following sentences (not exactly please
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Of course they should fit to each other, so if a Kilrathi sounds like a weak kitten when being shot at he should also sound like a weak kitten when attacking. Those are converted into "personas" for the game. First step is to get the texts done.
1) "All fighters are destroyed, area is secure"
2) "Enemy fighters have arrived"
3) "I'm attacking your target"
4) "We're the backup and we've arrived to save your ass"
5) "Bravo Wing here, we've just arrived"
6) "There's a fighter on your six!"
7) "I'm dying!"
8) "Charlie Wing here, we've just arrived"
9) "I'm getting the **** out of here"
10) "I'm disabling your target" (going for engines)
11) "I'm disarming your target" (going for turrets)
12) "I'm breaking formation to engage enemy"
13) "Delta Wing here, we've just arrived"
14) "Echo Wing has arrived"
15) "I'm taking damage"
16) "I'm ignoring your target"
17) "I'm not following your order"
18) "I can't pick up your target on sensors"
19) "You just fired on me, man"
20) "Main player has been killed!"
21) "Main player just did something cool!"
22) "I'm out of missiles!"
23) "My fighter is heavily damaged"
24) "Main player is straying away from objective"
25) "Main player is traitor, off with his head!"
26) "I'm following your order"
27) "I'm the greatest!"
Also I will need at least five or six capship personas, those have far less lines though. IIRC they are limited to
1. Ship has arrived
2. Ship is departing
3. Friendly fire
4. Death
5. Target destroyed
I think that's all the engine is capable of without scripting, which is the aim for the mod since it should allow campaign/mission builders to build their own Kilrathi missions/campaigns.
The second part is the Kilrathi voices for my campaign (which I plan to release separately because it will take longer). For that I will need another five or six sets of all lines spoken by a distinct character, plus some sentences that the wingmen say during the missions.
Finally one of them will speak the briefing texts IF I do briefings/debriefings with voiceovers.
It's that much work and I'm not sure whether I should do it or not.
I can record the lines for the campaign as soon as the story and the missions are finished. I'm now working on the third mission of ten so that will take a while. The rough outlines of teh story are finished but the text isn't. I'm still in the progress of checking the story versus the canon facts and writing the most important parts that I need for the mission texts. The rest will be non-voiced in the fiction viewer so the players can read it or skip it.
So as you see there are some things still to do. If anybody is interested in creating lines for the generic pilots, please post your ideas here.
Here's an example for aKilrathi. Note thath I don't mention Terrans or Apes or whatever refers to humans because that way you can use that voices in a campaign where Kilrathi fight Varni/Firekkans/Hu/Kilrathi:
1) "We're out of prey it seems"
2) "More of them! Sharpen your claws!"
3) "I will shred him to pieces"
4) "We are here to join your hunt"
5) "Bravo Wing here, time to fight"
6) "Watch your back"
7) "I'm dying!"
8) "Charlie Wing here, time to fight"
9) "Tactical retreat is not the same as running away"
10) "Let's hamstring them" (going for engines)
11) "We will take their fangs" (going for turrets)
12) "The hunt has begun"
13) "Delta Wing here, time to fight"
14) "Echo Wing has arrived, time to fight"
15) "I am under fire!"
16) "Alright, that on is yours"
17) "I can't do that."
18) "I can't see your target"
19) "Arrhh.. be careful!"
20) "May you sit next to Sivar, brother!"
21) "Very impressive, brother!"
22) "I don't have any missiles left"
23) "My fighter is almost breaking apart!"
24) "Where are you going? Come back!"
25) "You have betrayed your clan! Die!"
26) "As you wish"
27) "A proper fate for a coward"