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Does this hardcore mod have anything to do with this hardcore mod? It seems unlikely, since the recording of the television and the audio indicate that it's the PSX version. How would you get a hardcore mod into the PSX game? Has anyone played this particular mod? How do you get ahold of it?
Yeah I think you'd have to alter his animations to fix that.
Does anyone actually know why that happens?
I'm not sure but I think that the reason is that, in this particular occasion, the game calls for a standard ff7 animation instead of a specific Vincent animation. If I remember correctly, Vincent uses some more bones than standard models. If they used an animation that doesn't fit the number and settings of the bones, it would explain why it's screwed up.
Hey guysss I know I haven't been around in a while and I know almost all of the spots for FF7Voice are filled now but I just wanted to say that I'm open and willing for anything that's left. I get rid of dialup this friday sooo just let me know if you still need a voice :]
Marcis suggested that they be done in .WAV, rather than .MP3
As I've mentioned in the other thread, I've been testing voices during a play through with relative success. I have yet to hear about anybody else doing so at this point though.
From my testing here is what I've so far found :
- The script catcher defaults to the default character name no matter how you named them (good thing)
- It sometimes freezes when you alt-tab out of the game (haven't noticed a pattern yet as it doesn't happen on a regular basis)
- The included wav files by ficedula creates a memory error if played at the same time as ff7music but regular wavs work fine. I guess its the way they've been encoded
- I have to test this further as I have no nearby saves by it didn't pick up the text in Lucrecia's waterfall (zz4). That is the only area I had an issue with text not picking up. (UPDATE further down)
- The ztuck area (cloud's flashback about zack in the mansion) was picked up correctly but immediately renamed it to a odd string of characters before dialog started, nullifying any configured script lines. It is always the same random string of characters though so it could be worked around.
That's all I can think of for now.
For people wanting to try out the program (found in the original voice-over thread by ff7heart) here's a quick tutorial :
- download the voices pack and unzip it in your ff7 folder
- download ficedula's save and unzip it in your saves folder
- start ff7
- alt-tab out of it
- double click voices.exe in ff7 folder
- click start (NO MESSAGE WILL COME UP - THIS IS NORMAL)
- go back to ff7
- go into save slot 4
- choose the "highwind" save (it's in the first 5 ones I believe)
- talk to people in the cockpit and post back your results!
I would also recommend you try running the program as a normal script catcher as well to see if there are any areas where there might be issues with the text not being picked up.
Using ficedula's save file, I found out the one at 53h28 was just by the waterfall cave with Vincent's event not yet triggered so I played it through. The program detects the change of location (zz4) but does not detect anything afterwards, no field file changes, no dialog.
I also found out that the problem is not related to the text of the waterfall cave not being picked up because even if I leave the waterfall after the event, it stops picking up field field changes and dialogue in the airship and this is text I've picked up before so I know it does work. So initiating the waterfall event totally stops the voices program (although voices itself does not crash - it just stands there doing nothing).
So there must be something when either the zz4 area is loaded or as the first line of dialog initializes that "breaks" the hooks of the voices program into ff7.
This is the only area I've tested where this happens so far (I've played the huge materia quest to just before getting back in midgar) so I'm thinking it might be a unique coding patern specific to that area interfering with the program.
Ficedula : Quick update on the Vincent waterfall issue. Enough time had went by so I could go by the waterfall and pick up chaos and death penalty in my game. Voices picked up that event properly so I would think the bug is related to the initialization of the first line of dialog for the Lucrecia event. Looking at zz4 in cosmo, I don't see anything out of the ordinary in the first lines of dialog though ...
So, here, have another proof of concept;
http://www.sylphds.net/f2k3/voices.rar
How to use;
Download, decompress into your FF7 folder. Run FF7. Alt-tab out (it seems to work OK with the windowed mode patch too) and run Voices. Click the 'start' button. If you don't see any errors messages then (hopefully) that means everything is working.
The window will display any dialogue it intercepts; there's some sample dialogue for the Highwind bridge I recorded in there as well (WARNING: rubbish recordings!). Easiest way to hear that would be to download this savegame:
http://www.sylphds.net/f2k3/save03.ff7
...and load the Highwind save, go to the bridge, then talk to Barret/Cid/one of the engineers.
Feedback welcomed. Preferably of the sort 'it works 100%!' but other feedback would be OK too, I guess...
