Sound/Speech

[khanuk]

OK, I have now spent my first week as an owner of SEIV downloading patch 1.49 and checking out the various threads on the forum - can't wait to try out some of the technology you guys are talking about

One question, various threads make reference to new sounds built into the mods for weapon fire, explosions etc.

Other threads refer to speech, is this game meant to have speech? I havn't come across this yet so can someone confirm whether or nor I have the 'dumb' Version.

Cheers

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sodomis non sapiens

[Suicide Junkie]

The new weapon sounds are made by recording .WAV files. Each weapon has a "Weapon Sound := incnbeam.wav" line.

The speech sounds thing was, IIRC, a suggestion to add voice clips to your political Messages.
That is a hardcode change, and would involve very large turn downloads.

[Master Belisarius]

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Originally posted by khanuk:
OK, I have now spent my first week as an owner of SEIV downloading patch 1.49 and checking out the various threads on the forum - can't wait to try out some of the technology you guys are talking about

One question, various threads make reference to new sounds built into the mods for weapon fire, explosions etc.

Other threads refer to speech, is this game meant to have speech? I havn't come across this yet so can someone confirm whether or nor I have the 'dumb' Version.

Cheers

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Yes, the game have speech... but it's only only a TXT file.
As you said, the sounds are only for weapons, explosions, etc.

BTW: although I'm not one of them, I think that your signature is a bit offensive!

[khanuk]

Not sure why you find my signature offensive - it translates colloquially from the Latin as 'buggered if I know'. It comes from one of the discworld books written by Terry Pratchet and has been adopted by certain parts of the UK legal profession as the thing to say when an attorney asks you a question in a meeting to which you dont know the answer, and to which you want to respond without alerting your clients that you dont have a clue!

Given my inexperience with SEIV, it is probably a fair remark on my general knowledge of this game.

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sodomis non sapiens

[Master Belisarius]

First all, must say that my comment was a joke, right?

Now I can see what mean to you!
Honestly, 'buggered if I know', looks like a very colloquially translation to me!
In the other hand, I'm not an expert in Latin, but anyway... here is my translation for “Sodomis non sapiens”:

“Sodomis: “ Sodom, one of the cities that was burned by God, because their inhabitants (the Sodomites) liked to have sex in the way that God disliked! ! And you know… for extension, a Sodomite is a male person that like to have sex with people of their own sex…

“Non”. Very easy to translate: not.

“Sapiens: “ Have several translations to english, if I’m not wrong. Some are: wise, sage, discreet, judicious.

Considering that the people of Sodom, caused the Wrath of God… obviously that these guys were not very wise people! And then I believe that a decent translation could be: “Sodom is not wise” or maybe “The people of Sodom is not wise”.

Then, an alternate transaltion, could be: The Sodomites are not judicious!

This was the reason of my joke.
Finally, want to apologize if I have bothered someone! Really I’m far to feel prejudices against people with different sexual options than me.

[dogscoff]

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the thing to say when an attorney asks you a question in a meeting to which you dont know the answer, and to which you want to respond without alerting your clients that you dont have a clue!

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Ahhh... but now we know. That little trick won't work on us now=-)

Back on topic: Has your initial query (sounds/ speech) been answered to your satisfaction?

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[This message has been edited by dogscoff (edited 19 November 2001).]