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[Acadian]

The purpose of this thread is to help folks find Skyrim mods. Inquiries can fit into several categories, such as:

-An idea that you think would be good for a mod – is there such mod already out there?

- A known mod that you are considering – anyone here at chorrol used it and had good/bad luck with it?

- Trying to pick from among several mods that do sort of the same thing. Which one is best – or at least what are some experience-based considerations.

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Naturally, I currently have something in mind, so here goes:

I very much miss my ‘Innocent’ voice set that Buffy uses in Oblivion. It used triggers and comments inspired by the Baldur’s Gate series. I recall that SubRosa used the same mod only with differing voice sets such as Imoen or Viconia. Anyway, I’m looking for something similar for Skyrim. I know that battle taunts are part of it and that's okay, but I’m actually more interested in non-fighting comments. I seem to recall Grits mentioning using Player Voicesets. The support and level of endorsement for the mod on Nexus seem good. Before I try it, any comments on this mod or ideas for one that might suit my purposes better?

[SubRosa]

Additional Player Voices for Skyrim gives you about a dozen or so events that you can map sounds too. With up to ten sounds per event, that gives you a lot of diversity. I find the big problem is actually finding that many different sounds. Most of the events in my voice sets only have one to two different sounds. It was only making the Innocent set today that for the first time I had a dozen sounds for one event, and actually had to cut a few to get them down to ten.

I have only been playing with it for a few days, but so far APV has been really good. It has events for most things you do, like mounting a horse, discovering a new location, leveling up, skill increases, going into combat, drawing a weapon, etc... It only seems to be lacking in a few things, like a sound event for picking a lock/pocket, or becoming over-encumbured. It would also be nice to have a sound that would kick in when you are idle for a certain amount of time. I have no idea how you would add those events though. Skyrim's scripting makes as much sense to me at Sanskrit. But even lacking those, it is far an away my favorite choice of the voice mods out there.

I did some testing, and found it picks which sound to play in an event folder at random. Even if you do not have a .wav file for a particular 'slot', it might pick that one. In which case it just doesn't play anything. So if you only have one file, you will only hear a sound about once in ten times on average. If you want to hear something every time, you need to make 10 copies of your .wav file in the event folder. Even then though, I found that sometimes it still doesn't play a sound. My guess would be the script is getting butterfingers.

I have discovered that you don't need any .wav files in the event folders. You can leave some blank, and the mod will simply not play anything when that event happens. So no worries about breaking anything if you don't want a sound for some things. Which brings me to two events I am not sure about Bowshot and Crossbow. Both play a sound whenever you fire the particular weapon. But do you really want to hear your character say something every time you shoot? That would seem like it would get repetitive really fast.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Oct 14 2014, 11:02 PM