Voices

AI Vocal Sets

Although AI come with a default vocal set, mappers can easily modify what kind of voice each AI uses.

AI Characters

In order to create a variety of character types, vocal sets have been created for various "characters". A character, in this sense, is a distinctive voice, personality, and way of speaking. The vocal set of any particular character can technically be used for any AI type, though some have been tailored to suit particular AI better than others.

By designing 'character' voices, mappers have the freedom to give voices to AI based on their personality rather than just their entity type.

To change the voice of any AI add the following spawnarg to the AI in your map:

"def_vocal_set"   "[name of vocal set from list below]"

Vocal Sets

The available character vocals are listed below. Each set has a "guard" and "civilian" version. Choose the civilian version for unarmed characters.

Vocal sets are defined in darkmod/def/tdm_ai_vocal_sets.def

1. "The Thug" -- crude and crass; uneducated; violent; threatening voice, talks about gambling, bullying, whoring, and bodily functions; swears a lot (suits guards, commoners, thieves)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_thug_guard_01
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_thug_civilian_01

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2. "The Grumbler" -- a bored, seen-it-all character with a gravelly voice; complains a lot; uneducated; gruff, talks about his aches, pains, hunger, boredom, losing at gambling, etc (suits guards, forger, servants, commoners)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_grumbler_guard_01
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_grumbler_civilian_01

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3. "The Pro" -- professional, cool; uneducated but experienced; man of few words, very aware of his surroundings, often predicts the player's behaviour; talks about doing his job well (suits guards, elite guards, mages, thieves, inventors, nobles)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_pro_guard_01
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_pro_civilian_01

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4. "The Mature Builder" -- strong voice, experienced, determined; archaic language; patient and somewhat monitone, talks about servitude, orthodoxy (suits builder guards, forgers, inquisitors, priests)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_03_guard
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_03_civilian

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5. "The Young Builder" -- young; overzealous; slips out of archaic language sometimes; cliché scriptures, full of faith and burning with confidence, talks about doing great things. (suits builder guards, acolytes)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_04_guard
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_04_civilian

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6. "The Lord" -- strong voice; educated; arrogant and cold; dismissive, talks about himself and his own power/money. The Lord is used to being obeyed. (suits noblemen, elite guards, mages, inventor scientists)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_lord_guard_01
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_lord_civilian_01

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7. "The Simpleton" -- a simple, unintelligent character, who speaks in a slow, measured voice. He goes about his life dealing with the here and now, and doesn’t think much about anything beyond what he’s doing. Tends to state the obvious. (suits commoners, generic guards)

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_simpleton_guard_01
• atdm:ai_vocal_set_simpleton_civilian_01

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8. "Average Jack" -- (added 1.02) a generic character, tends to complain. (suits commoners, generic guards)

Incomplete vocal sets:

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_01 -- contains only a builder conversation

• atdm:ai_vocal_set_builder_02 -- about 3/4 complete at present, barely usable.

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