How to make a unit speak in arma3

[ColeMinor 0]

hey guys,

I've been searching all afternoon and I've figured out some stuff, from what i gather if you play the sound from a trigger/effects/voice, and link that trigger to a unit he will move his lips while it plays.

But how can i set up sounds to play that show up in the voice drop down field? I mustn't be searching the right terms, I haven't had any luck solving this yet. I was able to get the names (haven't made the actual sound files yet) to show up in the music tracks drop down list but not voice.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks!

[kylania 567]

This demo mission has a few examples of that.

[ColeMinor 0]

Thanks man, it seem pretty complicated for me at this point but I'll see if i can implement that. Can we just get him to speak from his mouth and move his lips tho and not use the radio? is there a cfgVoice class?

How would i set up this type of thing for voice:

class CfgSounds
{
// List of sounds (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)

sounds[] = {blue10};

// Definition for each sound

class blue10
{
	name = "blue10";
	sound[] = {\sound\blue10_strike_prime.ogg, db + 10, 1.0};
	titles[] = {0, $STR_BLUE10_SUBTITLE};
};

};

[ColeMinor 0]

so Kylania,

I've checked thru a few threads on this once I came across "dialog" as a search term, seems super complex to me right now, i'll probably try to tackle it with my bro who has some programming experience.

In the meantime can I just get some advice on getting a custom sound in the game and playing it from a unit that moves his lips? That's got to be super simple compared to the convo system.

Do the ogg files need to be wavs first at a certain setting? I used an mp3, converted to ogg but I cant get it to show up in game. I make my own music etc. so i'd like to get some in game (which I did back in ofp:r days), I also have a professional recording studio at home I could use for voice acting but I cant get rolling on this.

Any input would be great thanks man!

I'm mostly coming up with info for arma2 and back.

[kylania 567]

The lip moving stuff seems to have changed, since code/files that worked in ArmA2 weren't working in ArmA3. There isn't the ArmA3 tools out yet, so...

I've converted MP3s using SoundForge and umm.. some random website the other night and it seemed to work. I have a bookmark at home with all the settings you should use for sounds, can't find it at the moment though.