Mike & Petes Fun Half-Life Sound Pak mod

Ah, yah... That's one of the hard things that I didn't write about in the docs. There are a lot of scenes in HL where 2+ guys talk, one after another. We actually didn't change it at all - we just found a way to work around it.

Here is a really techie explanation of it. You may want to load up the sentences.txt file and open the WAV files for that scene you're asking about, so you can see what I'm talking about here.

Each segment of speech is its own WAV file, and for each "actor" in the scene, their first line is played, then the second, third, etc. The timing of when each actor's line is started is programmed into this scene. A few key things to note here:

1) Each actor is independent: playing their WAV file does not affect when the other actor starts talking - this is controlled just by the scene scripting
2) Generally speaking, each WAV file can be as long as you want, but if the actor is scheduled (by the scene scripting) to start talking again after X seconds, then if your first WAV file is over X seconds long it will get cut off when the second WAV is played! Additionally, this also means that if you want the actor to do a monologue, then you record one big long recordings and chop it up into 2+ wAV files (e.g. the first WAV contains the first X seconds, and the second WAV contains everything after)
3) SOMETIMES your lines will just simply get cut off after a certain number of seconds.. again, due to the scene scripting. If that happens, well, can't help you there.

Since we never figured out how to change these scenes, we found a work-around: Using a stop-watch, we carefully timed exactly when each person started talking, then we chopped up our own recordings to match with that timing. We also had to insert huge chunks of empty silence into various WAV files so that the back-and-forth conversation worked well.

So, yeah, that's how we did it

Could do, but then where would we draw the line? It'd go on forever and ever and ever, like the theme song to Lambchop's Playalong.

Hmm.. actually, maybe we could do a Pokemon-inspired thing... So change the snark's sounds to: "snark!", "snark-snark!", "snaaaaaaaaark"

hahaha... yah, maybe we could do that :)

I'd laugh all day XD