Hi Dark, That's pretty much my thoughts as well. It seems pretty senseless to go back and spend all that time adding Sapi support when the game works just as well using the prerecorded voice clips. Especially, in light of where we are right now in development.
Basically, unless something major comes up I've got beta 20 all mapped out, and have a handful of things to tidy up or fix before release. I can pretty much sum it up right here. * Merge changes in MOTA beta 19 with beta 18. * Recompile game with the Windows version of the engine. * Tidy up the code some, correct formatting errors, etc. * Remove test code or no longer used code for a faster cleaner executable. * Update end user documentation. In a nutshell its not anything the end user will likely notice between beta 18 and beta 20 other than I've fixed a few bugs here and there, and have cleaned out a lot of unnecessary test code etc. When I start house cleaning, tidying up the code, you can pretty much figure the game, at least the main coding, is done. Which is where we are. Once I put out beta 20 I am going to be adding levels, adding the registration system, and there isn't anything else to do that I know of. So with that in mind taking time to add Sapi support is at the very least not something that has to be done right away. It could be added, if at at all, sometime after 1.0 is out. Cheers! On 6/17/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally tom I'm happy as is. > > maybe in the planning stages sapi would've been easier to add for menues, > speaking of health etc, but now you've got all that done with prerecorded > synth files it seems silly to change it. > > That being said however, I am pleased to here that sapi support is in the > genesis engine generally, sinse it's one of these things that comes in > useful, for instance people could now write their own driver names in > raceway, or, if you make an arcade style game with scoring use sapi to write > their names. > > While I'm very much in favour of human voices being used for human > characters, for menues and in game info as I've said synths are fine, and > sapi usually has the advantage of being both easy to implement, and able to > easily take the users' own in put for anything needed in the game. > > As I said, sinse Mota has already been done speech wise changing it just > seems extra work imho, but this is a good thing for future games I think. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
