A detail about Gather Text

Arhoolie

Hi folks,

As a rule, we've been checking everything in, gathering text on everything at once, and then allowing check-outs after that.  

Is there any reason not to Gather Text on a single scene, as opposed to all scenes at once, assuming all the scenes are up to date?

Thanks.

ChrisIceBox

The gather text feature ensures that no two translateable pieces of text have the same internal ID number - so it needs to go through all scenes to be sure of this when assigning new IDs.  However if a scene has been unedited since the last time this operation checked it, there shouldn't be any changes made to it.

Arhoolie

I guess what I'm wondering is: Is there a negative consequence to using Gather Text on a single scene for testing purposes?  

We're currently finding some VO bugs where VO isn't playing, even though the speech ID is there and matches the sound file.  I thought I'd remove the Dialog call with the Speech ID, then try Gather Text on that scene to see if I can get a new ID, rename the file, and see if it works. Then I'll know that the next Gather Text across multiple scenes will solve it, and I can revert the file in the interim. 

I'm just not sure if I'll be screwing up a master file of GT info or something, or if all the data is stored in the scene files. 

ChrisIceBox

If you're experiencing a bug, then please post details in a new thread so that I can look to fix it.

When you Gather Text, Speech Actions in the scenes are updated with an internal ID number, but a record is also made within the Speech Manager itself.  If you leave out scenes, ID numbers may get removed from the Speech Manager and this will cause issues.

Arhoolie

Thanks, that's exactly the info I was looking for.  

I'm not sure if I'm experiencing a bug or not, I just need to know some details about G.T. first. If we still can't get the files to work, I'll post a new thread.