Title, been wondering if I could have a custom announcer for my game
A custom announcer voice for one map?
- Thread starter Scrimmy Crungus
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Do you mean actually hiring the actor that does the Announcer voice? I'm afraid that's pretty much impossible. Your best bet is to use a Text to Speech program and make your own sound files, then play those back in-game.
The voice will be rather fake and robotic, but if you're lucky, you can just turn it into a meme (coughWatergatecough)
The voice will be rather fake and robotic, but if you're lucky, you can just turn it into a meme (coughWatergatecough)
No, I mean using custom voice lines for a game mode. I already have what I want.
You have two options (well, three, but there's really no good reason to go with the third even if it technically works).
- Create a custom sound script for the map associating the events you want to trigger custom sounds with the custom sound files you've made. This is a great way to swap out literally any default sound, or even add multiple variants that the game can pick from at random.
- Depending on your gamemode, you might be able to disable the stock announcer lines and then set certain events to trigger ambient_generics. Doomsday does this for some reason. You can only have one sound variant per event, unless you want to get fancy with logic entities, but you don't have to remember to create a new copy of your sound script for every new version; your packing program should be able to handle everything.
