Since no Vietamese voices, I use Chinese voices instead via one line in init...

johnnyboy

....sqf

I've seen people complain about no Vietnamese voices. I agree it would be best if we had them. But for editor created missions, its easy to set all VC units to use Chinese voices. To an ignorant English speaker like me, it is better to hear Chinese (which I don't understand of course) than nothing at all. To do this, place the following line of code in your init.sqf file:

{if (speaker x == "vie") then {x setspeaker (selectRandom ["male01chi","male02chi","male03chi"]);};} foreach allunits;

You can also paste that into the debug console and execute it.

For me, it increase immersion to hear the VC talking in Chinese.

Astute

Thanks johnnyboy,

That's a really good temporary workaround for those of us who like immersion - i'm hoping the developers include Vietnamese voices in an update at some point. Do you know if it affects the Vietnamese ambient voices as i don't want to remove those? Also would you know how to do this with the ARVN (INDFOR) faction as well?

johnnyboy

Astute wrote:
Thanks johnnyboy,

That's a really good temporary workaround for those of us who like immersion - i'm hoping the developers include Vietnamese voices in an update at some point. Do you know if it affects the Vietnamese ambient voices as i don't want to remove those? Also would you know how to do this with the ARVN (INDFOR) faction as well?

Hey Astute, ARVN are set to use standard ENG voices. You could do something similar where you detect they are independent and ARVN, and then reset their Speakers if you want. Not sure exactly how to do that, as we would want to detect all unit classes under ARVN...

Red

Does this work for PAVN as well, or just VC?

johnnyboy

Not sure. It works for any unit whose speaker is set to "vie". It would be simple to apply to other speakers, groups, sides, units, depending on what you want.

Astute

johnnyboy wrote:
Hey Astute, ARVN are set to use standard ENG voices. You could do something similar where you detect they are independent and ARVN, and then reset their Speakers if you want. Not sure exactly how to do that, as we would want to detect all unit classes under ARVN...

Hi JohhnyBoy,

Would this override all English speaking units though? I don't want US forces speaking Chinese! Could you publish some more details on how you find a faction's language and how to change it without changing ALL 'ENG' speaking factions? I can understand some coding but i'm just a novice.

Also i know the developers can't comment on upcoming plans but surely it wouldn't be much of a give away to tell us if including Vietnamese is planned at some point? I don't quite understand why the developers were able to get the ambient Vietnamese voices in the game (which are brilliant by the way) but not the radio dialogue.

Ta.

johnnyboy

Hi astute. I believe this does not override English speakers. Arma 3 voice files have been recorded per "speaker". Example one English speaker is "Male01ENG". Another is "Male02ENG". French speaking units have these speakers: Male01FRE, Male02FRE, Male03FRE, etc. You use the speaker command on any unit and you will see what speaker has been assigned to that unit, and therefore what language he is using.

I'm guessing the Prairie Fire developers saved money by not recording all the commands and responses for Vietnamese speakers. All vietnamese units in Prairie Fire are set to speaker "vie". I'm guessing the devs simply put in placeholder voice file with the squelch sound for every ARMA command and response. So my little script ONLY changes the "vie" speakers to Chinese speakers that have voice files. No English (or any other language speaker) will be overridden by this script. It works fine.

Astute

johnnyboy wrote:
Hi astute. I believe this does not override English speakers. Arma 3 voice files have been recorded per "speaker". Example one English speaker is "Male01ENG". Another is "Male02ENG". French speaking units have these speakers: Male01FRE, Male02FRE, Male03FRE, etc. You use the speaker command on any unit and you will see what speaker has been assigned to that unit, and therefore what language he is using.

I'm guessing the Prairie Fire developers saved money by not recording all the commands and responses for Vietnamese speakers. All vietnamese units in Prairie Fire are set to speaker "vie". I'm guessing the devs simply put in placeholder voice file with the squelch sound for every ARMA command and response. So my little script ONLY changes the "vie" speakers to Chinese speakers that have voice files. No English (or any other language speaker) will be overridden by this script. It works fine.

Well JohnnyBoy I don't have the skills to be able to work out how to set Chinese voices for the ARVN faction but let me know if you work out how to do it!

Astute

NovNovikov

Hi johnnyboy, I made a small mod based on your script.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2521153397
P.S. Don't worry, I mentioned you an author of the script and provided a link to this thread.

johnnyboy

NovNovikov wrote:
Hi johnnyboy, I made a small mod based on your script.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2521153397
P.S. Don't worry, I mentioned you an author of the script and provided a link to this thread.

Awesome. This makes it easier for anyone to use. Thanks!

Astute

[MENTION=1115]NovNovikov[/MENTION] that's brilliant mate thanks.