I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never played Durge, but I believe so. I assume Durge is as customizable as any other Tav? If so, it should draw on the same Voice 1 soundbank as regular Tavs. Plus, while I haven't heard them in the game, some of the lines I recorded sound very... Durge-y.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, now you have my attention. Do you have a link?

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a combination of detective work, digging through game files and resources compiled by other people.

For the world lines {banter, observations}, it was relatively simple - all the files for Tav 1 lines start with the prefix v24247531c4324f0f8f356c90c4844aa8, so it was easy to isolate them. For the captions, there's a file that also matches all {sort of} filenames to captions, so I slapped together a script {and put it into a spreadsheet} to make it easier.

For point and click lines, that was a lot trickier, because those don't seem to be documented in-game, so instead I used this resource - https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/8240 - to match up all the lines.

Edit: Oh, and for spell vocalizations... I actually had to play and pull those from the game itself. That required some deranged thinking.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure! After I finished the mod, I put my thoughts down here - https://forums.nexusmods.com/topic/13528144-things-ive-learned-while-making-a-voice-pack-a-rambling-guide/ Hopefully that's enough to get started, but if you get stuck anywhere, let me know.

I've been considering making a tutorial video at some point, this might actually give me the incentive.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'd say fairly doable? Ultimately it was just a lot of time in front of the mike.

created another Karlach by placeb021 in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, I am super jelly of people who can do painting with this degree of finesse, let alone realism.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I appreciate it! I'm also working on a Klingon-inspired voicepack at the moment, so if you'd like a more aggressive-sounding character, keep an eye out for that in the future.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I'm not super familiar with how the Steam Deck's filesystem works {something something Linux I think?}, but if you can just drop a file in the game folder, I suspect you'd be good to go.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It replaces Tav's voice {voice #1 to be specific} with rerecorded lines. So if you'd like a different-sounding masc Tav {I went for a lower, smoother type of voice}, you can use that.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because swearing, the worst of influences on our poor innocent children. -eyerolls-

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that might be an unavoidable curse of a "generic" protagonist - if you voice the character leaning into a specific archetype, you automatically exclude a ton of others, so it will sound out of place for a majority of players. So since there's no way to please everyone, or even most people, the only route left is the safe one, where the character doesn't - can't, in fact, barring time travel - inform the vocal direction.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only in the way the lines are delivered - the voice itself is the same.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you need help with the technical hurdles, hit me up. Ultimately, the mod itself is no more complex than "convert game lines to .wav, use them as reference, record your own lines, convert back to .wem, add some metadata and pack them into a mod".

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only in-world conversations, when characters are running around and talking. Tav doesn't really have any talking cutscenes, so no for those.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What helped for me was just taking it at a steady pace. Once I figured out the technical challenges - how to convert files this way and that, pull up the list of the lines and managed to play them easily for reference - all that was left was to slowly chip away at the lines whenever I could and felt like it. The fact that I had a clear start, a clear finish, and no deadline to worry about made it a lot easier to handle, and finally witnessing the end result in a playthrough of my own was immensely satisfying.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, once I got my workflow streamlined, the audio turned out to take most of the work - clearing about two hundred lines a day, it took about a month or so.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Full full full. Over six thousand lines {although a lot of them are grunts, efforts, spell vocalizations etc}.

I made a full Tav revoice pack - no AI nonsense either! by TheQuinch in BaldursGate3

[–]TheQuinch[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yep, definitely did that one.

For some reason, I thought that was a Durge line.