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It's not Deus Ex.

Looks like Tessa Thompson.

I was thinking more of the other actress, who's lately had prominent roles in a major superhero movie and hit TV show...

Django-San-Kyodai?

No.

I guess it's not too surprising that this one is difficult, but with this shot it should be googleable:

All right, time to reveal a bit more:



(The changing aspect ratio is something of a clue.)

Another snippet:

Nope. This film came out this year, distributed on TV and the Internet. It's relatively short, only about 45 minutes.

This might be pushing the boundaries of definition a little, but why not?

I think you did. (You know there's a way to search a specific thread?) I've never seen Spongebob either on TV or film, but I seem to remember that the ad campaign for that movie featured The Hoff pretty prominently.

Spongebob Squarepants?

... yes.

Spoiler

This is Jeff Bridges:



Hard to tell, right?

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Nyet.

No. I've never seen that, and I've heard quite a lot of bad things, so I probably won't. 

Nope. You know the actor, though he's hard to recognize in that shot.

I can't be arsed coming up with a link to the last one. I'll do like I usually do and just pick the last movie I watched:

The Gift (2000)?

(Some version of) Sherlock Holmes?

No, there is no way to do this in AGS script, unless your speech is made as regular audio clips (which I guess would be very inconvenient?).

For background speech you would have to do this anyway, since playing a speech clip is always blocking. So I'm not quite sure I follow what Ali is doing.

For what I wanted it for, on the other hand, I needed to be able to rely on that blocking.

We know that Audio Channel #0 is reserved for the voice speech. This probably means that you could test if System.AudioChannels[0] is currently playing to know if a voice-over is playing.
Perhaps this may be utilized somehow?

Clever idea, but as said, when speech is played on audiochannel 0 the game blocks anyway. The problem is that with eSpeechTextOnly, the clip doesn't play at all.

Wouldn't it be possible to fake the eSpeechTextOnly setting and set the volume of Channel #0 to the lowest value, i.e. mute it?

Hmm, that might actually work for me. Although it would presumably fail if the audio clip couldn't play (voice pack not available or audio system not initialized, but that causes a lot of other problems in AGS anyway).

Snarky, can you give us an ETA on 'ThinkBubble' function?

Well, it's part of the API I outlined when you contracted me to develop this module, so if you really need it I will make it a priority.

I would guess you just run speechbubble, but with 1 parameter change: to display the 3 bubbles going to the rounded corner box, instead of the angled-line going from the round corner box.

There's a little bit more to it than that if it's to work fully like AGS's Character.Think(), but a simple version shouldn't be too hard.

The main work is to complete and test the 8.9 rewrite, since I don't want to maintain two entirely separate branches going forward.

That looks like Jared Harris, and it's vaguely scifi-y, so... (quick IMDB lookup) Lost in Space, the Matt LeBlanc version?

Edit: Not quick enough!

Correct!