About names and voice

[Chomba]

Hello again,

This time I bring some doubts that have arisen lately.

1.

I saw in the manual (late), that to name the voice files of the characters you have to use the first four letters of the assigned name (the code name) and the number of the "&" (XXXXY)... what happens if I have characters that share the first 4 letters? for example, I have these characters "Falsoroger", "Falsomaton", "Falsoprofweaver"; that I use for when the character speaks but is not on the screen.

2.

If the above is a problem, how can I solve it by doing as little damage as possible?


I had more questions but I forgot them while I was writing....

[Crimson Wizard]

There's no way around this currently other than making sure at least 1 letter is different among the first 4.

This system is case insensitive, so changing small letter to capital or opposite won't work iirc.

[Chomba]

There's no way around this currently other than making sure at least 1 letter is different among the first 4.

Oh crap... Ok, I hope it won't cause too many problems... I guess I'll have to change their appearances in the code afterwards.

Thanks for the quick response CW 

[Chomba]

Sorry to reopen this topic, but another question came up.

What if I have a character that has 3 letters in his name?

"cDoc" and "cDocPosta" ... the names of the files would be for example: DOC1 and DOCP1? or should I also rename it to "cDoc" because it is only three letters?

[Crimson Wizard]

"cDoc" and "cDocPosta" ... the names of the files would be for example: DOC1 and DOCP1? or should I also rename it to "cDoc" because it is only three letters?

No, that should be fine I think. it's "DOC" for the first and "DOCP" for the second.
These tags should not include leading "c".
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/MusicAndSound.html#voice-speech

[Chomba]

No, that should be fine I think. it's "DOC" for the first and "DOCP" for the second.
These tags should not include leading "c".

Of course, now that I reread what I posted I could understand why you were telling me this.

or should I also rename it to "cDoc" because it is only three letters

here I should have said: or should I also rename the cDoc character to have more than three letters? (sorry for my english)

in fact, this:

These tags should not include leading "c".

was the only thing that was clear to me haha

thanks for taking the time CW!