Best way to deal with character sound bytes?

admiralamott

Hi all,
I don't have full dialogue speech per-say but I do have 1-2 second sound bytes that play every now and then in dialogue speech for each character. Do I treat them as small sound effects? Or do something with them like you would do with speech?

Thanks for reading

ChrisIceBox

With the randomness of how often a sound plays, and which sound is played, it's a case of using a custom script to hook into the OnStartSpeech custom event to decide what to do at the time the character it's attached to speaks:

using UnityEngine;
using AC;

public class RandomSpeechBites : MonoBehaviour
{

    public AudioClip[] speechBites;
    public Char speaker;
    [Range (0f, 1f)] public float playFrequency = 0.5f;

    private void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech += StartSpeech; }
    private void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnStartSpeech -= StartSpeech; }

    private void StartSpeech (AC.Char speakingCharacter, string speechText, int lineID)
    {
        if (speaker == null || Random.Range (0f, 1f) > playFrequency)
        {
            return;
        }

        if (speakingCharacter == speaker)
        {
            int index = Random.Range (0, speechBites.Length);
            AudioClip speechBite = speechBites[index];
            speaker.speechAudioSource.PlayOneShot (speechBite);
        }
    }

}

admiralamott

Thank you so much Chris! This is awesome!
I also wanted to ask, what's the best way I can optimize these sound files? They are small but should I still put them in SavableData for speech audio like recommended in the manual for speech?

ChrisIceBox

They don't need to be stored in save-files - keep them out of Resources.