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• ChrisIceBox

  August 2022

  Welcome to the community, @Sound_power.

  The text-scroll audio is more intended for smaller audio clips (e.g. a single beep or typewriter press sound) rather than a longer clip that might play only a single instance throughout the life of the speech line.

  When such audio is played for the narrator, it comes from the Scene Manager's "Default Sound" object. If you hook into the OnStopSpeech custom event, you can stop this sound from playing when narration ends:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class NarratorAudioStopper : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      private void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnStopSpeech += StopSpeech; }
      private void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnStopSpeech -= StopSpeech; }
  
      private void StopSpeech (Char speakingCharacter)
      {
          if (speakingCharacter == null)
          {
              // Narration line
              KickStarter.sceneSettings.defaultSound.audioSource.Stop ();
          }
      }
  
  }
  

  The speech system provides a number of such events - see the Manual's "Speech scripting" chapter for details. As such, it's also possible to unset the Speech Manager audio field, and instead rely on your own custom audio system entirely:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class NarrationAudio : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public AudioSource narrationAudioSource;
      public AudioClip narrationAudioClip;
  
      private void OnEnable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt += StartSpeech;
          EventManager.OnStopSpeech_Alt += StopSpeech;
      }
  
      private void OnDisable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnStopSpeech_Alt -= StopSpeech;
          EventManager.OnStartSpeech_Alt -= StartSpeech;
      }
  
      private void StartSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          if (speech.GetSpeakingCharacter () == null)
          {
              narrationAudioSource.clip = narrationAudioClip;
              narrationAudioSource.Play ();
          }
      }
  
      private void StopSpeech (Speech speech)
      {
          if (speech.GetSpeakingCharacter () == null)
          {
              narrationAudioSource.Stop ();
          }
      }
  
  }
  
• Sound_power

  August 2022

  Hi Chris! Thanks for responding to this, I am not really a coder myself, I can do stuff through visual scripting though, that´s why I use AC.

  I kinda get what you want me to do, guess I need to make this as scripts right? But what then?

  Some sort of steps might help me here.
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2022 edited August 2022

  The two scripts I wrote are variants of the same idea - don't try both at once, but one at a time.

  When adding a C# script file, you'll need to match the filename to the script's class name - i.e. the word after "class" to the top.

  For the first script, this'll need to be placed in a C# file named NarratorAudioStopper. Paste this in such a file, and you can then drag-drop it onto a new empty GameObject in your scene.

  When present in the scene, it will cause your scene's "Default Sound" object (which is where narration audio should be coming from) to stop playing when narration lines end.

  This may be enough for what you need, so let me know how you get on with that before trying out the second script, which would be named NarrationAudio.
• Sound_power

  August 2022

  Will try it soon, thanks Chris!
• Sound_power

  August 2022 edited August 2022

  Hey Chris, both scripts worked great! But I am afraid that they don´t do what´s intended, the (longer) AudioClip of the typewriter now stops when the menu for the Narrator Speaker turns off, that´s better yes. But what I need is for it to stop when the text itself that´s displayed inside the menu reaches it´s end.

  What happens now it´s the AudioClip keeps sounding even though the text reached it´s ending ...

  Maybe I wasn´t clear the first time, sorry for that... not sure if this would help but here´s an screenshot.

  

  The purpose of this is to have the typewriting SFX accompany the Narrator text, but it loses credibility if it´s still sounding after the text has finished displaying.

  Thanks anyway!
• ChrisIceBox

  August 2022

  You can hook into the OnCompleteSpeechScroll event instead, in that case:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class NarratorAudioStopper : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      private void OnEnable () { EventManager.OnCompleteSpeechScroll += OnCompleteSpeechScroll; }
      private void OnDisable () { EventManager.OnCompleteSpeechScroll -= OnCompleteSpeechScroll; }
  
      private void OnCompleteSpeechScroll (Char speakingCharacter, string speechText, int lineID)
      {
          if (speakingCharacter == null)
          {
              // Narration line
              KickStarter.sceneSettings.defaultSound.audioSource.Stop ();
          }
      }
  
  }
  

  See the Manual's "Speech scripting" chapter for a list of all available speech-related events.
• Sound_power

  August 2022

  That one worked perfectly! Thanks