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Is there some way to find out from within AGS how long a certain speech clip is, without playing it?

Here's why I'm asking:

When you call Character.Say() with a voice clip (e.g. player.Say("&14 This line has voice-over");), the speech lasts as long as the clip, logically enough. (Depending on your Speech.SkipStyle setting the text may stay on screen longer, but the character won't do the Talk animation.)

However, if you set your Speech.VoiceMode to eSpeechTextOnly, the voice clip is ignored, and it seems the game falls back to using the standard AGS formula for how long to display the text, based on the string length and  Game.TextReadingSpeed.

I want to be able to maintain the same timing whether or not speech is turned on. If I could get the length of the speech clip I could do that (writing my own little function to manually do the Talk animation and time it correctly).

Almost Famous?

In C++ it is done with "..." in parameter list, which means "any number of parameters of unknown types".
AGS can't do that. Also AGS does not have a way to translate unknown number of parameters to formatted string.

E: Ahaha, actually AGS CAN do that:

Code: ags

function aa(int x, ...)

Dunno how that will work though. And I don't see a way to GET those params when in the function.

Just reviving this thread to check that there isn't an update to this. It's still not possible to actually access these indeterminate parameters in AGS, right?

(Keywords for thread search: variadic function, params array, varargs, variable arguments)

Thanks, good folk!

The Adventures of Robin Hood?

Correct!

Coherence.

I'm sure it is and about to go to bed, so I'll just go ahead with the next one:

If that counts as me getting it, I cede my turn.

Just to confuse the issue even further, I'll officially make a "guess" (which I happen to know is correct): Dark City?

[Revenge]

Don't be stupid, Snarky. That was the tv series, not a movie.

Of course I meant Revenge of the Planet of the Apes.

Hmmm, given the monkey on the left, maybe Return to the Planet of the Apes?

Can confirm it's now working. Thanks AGA!

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It seems email notifications are broken. I've not been getting notifications either for PMs or moderator alerts recently.

Spot on.

Halloween?

How do you not remember that scene Snarky!?

*shrug*
It's been a while since I watched it, I guess?

None of the ones so far.

No, that was my cunning trap.

My memory is pretty spotty.

Ex Machina? I don't remember the scene, though.

Twilight?