Talk:Choreography creation

Voice advise section?

I do a lot of faceposing for people who try extensive accents and fast talking. IT DOESN'T WORK. Somewhere in here, it should advise voice actors to talk calmly and smoothly, don't slur words, and speak with firm enunciation.--Katana314 14:21, 5 Feb 2007 (PST)

Those are good guidelines in general, but remember that it is possible to manually create phonemes if you can't get the extractor to work with your dialogue. I'm really going to have to write that lip synching page! --TomEdwards 09:43, 6 Feb 2007 (PST)

This actor = this entity

I'm probably being stupid. Where/how does one specify which actor in the VCD is connected to which NPC-entity in the map? —Yar Kramer 21:48, 17 Nov 2007 (PST)

First item here. I've made the heading a little clearer to prevent this problem in the future. :-) --TomEdwards 01:51, 18 Nov 2007 (PST)

Okay, then ... I guess I'm doing something else wrong, because I'm doing my darnedest to set up a scene where the G-Man (from an inaccessible room) steps forward, adjusts his tie, and then just stands there watching you until you leave the current area, but it's not working for some reason — he just stands there looking around randomly. It doesn't seem that the scene is even being triggered, because for testing purposes I had him say one of GLaDOS's lines.

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that I'm using a couple hint-nodes around him instead of normal ones ... and I have a feeling that, once I get this figured out, it's going to be so obvious I'll be kicking myself. —Yar Kramer 20:41, 18 Nov 2007 (PST)

Nodes make no difference. Are you sure that the LCS is receiving the input? Try turning on the dev console and pasting the relevant output here. --TomEdwards 06:41, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)

Aha, there's the problem even before I triggered it! I forgot to put the VCD into scenes.image! —Yar Kramer 13:51, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)

As far as I'm aware, there's no way for us to build that file yet. You'll have to revert to the ep1 engine for now. --TomEdwards 13:53, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)

... and since this is specifically a mod for Portal, that means I get to put the whole project on hold! Arrgh ... —Yar Kramer 13:57, 19 Nov 2007 (PST)

Scene 'scenes\lp_hurricaaane\b00_entry.vcd' missing!

Hi, I'm trying to integrate a custom scene file to make GlaDOS speak. But it just doesn't want to find the file in game. The file is detected in the scenes of Hammer. I even tried to copy a original scene file without modifying it and rename it, and it doesn't want to find it neither. I tried to associate it with the BSP but not. What should I do? Thanks.--Hurricaaane 07:05, 21 Nov 2007 (PST)

Hello.

i ran into the same problems for my little map and the only solutions are: put your custom vcd into the scene.images. somehow. no idea how, seems it isnt supported yet or not wanted. or using the good ol' way of merging sounds by yourself. which sucks thou, choreo scenes are so much better (smaller, easier to merge, they support any language by default and so on). Puchi 07:20, 21 Nov 2007 (PST)

There's no way of doing it at all right now. You'll have to revert your mod to the ep1 engine. I've added a warning to the page about it! --TomEdwards 09:11, 21 Nov 2007 (PST)

Thanks for the answer. Actually the mod I'm trying to create custom scenes in is Portal. You know what I mean...--Hurricaaane 10:07, 21 Nov 2007 (PST)

See above; I'm having the exact same problem. &mdashYar Kramer 12:03, 21 Nov 2007 (PST)