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Short information about the structure and creation of voicepacks
Updated Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:42:47 +0100 by Wuzzy

Voicepacks

Introduction

Voicepacks are collections of audio files which contain the taunts the hedgehogs say on various events.

Creating voicepacks

A voicepack is a directory in Data/Sounds/voices and contains a bunch of audio files which are encoded in the Ogg Vorbis format. All the audio files should have a sample rate of 44100 Hz.

Each audio file represents a single taunt which is played at certain events. Only files with the correct file names will be recognized as taunts, other files will be ignored. For a list of recognized file names, see Taunts.

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Special voicepacks

The voicepack “Default” is the English default voice and is used as the ultimate fallback, if a voicepack cannot be found.

Voicepacks with a name of the form “ Name_<language> ” (where “Name” can be a name of your liking, and “ <language> ” is a language code) are for specifying a localized version of a voicepack. Voicepacks without the language code are assumed to be in English.

In Lua scripting

If in AddTeam , you use the special language code qau , then Hedgewars will try to play the matching localized version of that voicepack, with respect to the player's language (e.g. Pirate_de ). If no localized version exists, Hedgewars falls back to the voicepack with no language code (e.g. Pirate ).

For example, if you specify “ Default_qau ” as voice in AddTeam in Lua, Hedgewars will play Default_ru for Russian players, Default_pl for Polish players, Default for English players and players with no localized version of Default available yet. But if you just specify Default in AddTeam , the team will always use the English Default voicepack for all players.

In versions before 1.0.0, the special qau code did not exist and the automatic voicepack selection was kinda annoying. Hedgewars tried to force the automatic language selection pretty ruthlessly with no way to avoid it, and it was impossible to e.g. specify the Default voice explicitly.

Sharing voicepacks

Custom voicepacks (voicepacks which are not part of the official Hedgewars installation) can only be heard by other players (online) if they have the voicepack installed under the same name.

In case the other player does not have the custom voicepack installed, the player will hear the default voice instead.

You are encouraged to share your voicepacks in the “Content Creations” forum.