Narrator Volume

hightreason

I'm probably missing something obvious. This can't be difficult to do. But I can't figure out how to lower the narrator volume across the board. I notice the game automatically creates a sound object for the narrator, but it starts with a relative volume of 1, and I'd like that to be lower. I can lower the volume of all the speech and it lowers it, but then I can't raise the volume of the other characters because the slider doesn't go higher than 1. How can I adjust the narrator volume aside from going in and editing all the individual audio files, of which there are many.

hightreason

The manual says to add a default sound to the scene for narration, but that does nothing. It still creates a new narrator sound object. I have also tried creating my own sound object called Narrator in the scene, but that also doesn't work. It still creates another one.

hightreason

For now, I've changed GetNarratorAudioSource() in Dialog.cs with this:

if (narratorAudioSource == null)
{
    GameObject narratorSoundExist = GameObject.Find("Narrator");
    if (narratorSoundExist != null)
    {
       narratorAudioSource = narratorSoundExist.GetComponent<AudioSource>();
       return narratorAudioSource;
    }

    ...
}

ChrisIceBox

Apologies - the Manual is incorrect.  The Default Sound is used to play speech-scrolling audio, not narration audio.

I'll look into making this more convient, likely by adding a "Narration override Sound" field to the Dialog component.

hightreason

What's the progress on this? Just updated to the latest version, but doesn't look there is a way to do this yet. I went in and made my changes above again.

ChrisIceBox

It's as I said in my last post - the Dialog component now has a "Narrator Sound" field you can assign to override the auto-created one.

The Dialog component is present on the GameEngine object in each AC scene.

hightreason

Oh I see. I was scouring the settings in all the editor tabs for it. Didn't think to look at the component on the GameEngine Object.

I was rather hoping for being able to supply a universal prefab instead of having to add the Narrator object to every scene manually. I suppose this can work though.

Thank you. :-)