Voice Acting Control VisuStella MZ

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Required Plugins The following plugins are required in order to use this plugin. Place the following plugins above this plugin located in the Plugin Manager. Core Engine VisuStella MZ Message Core VisuStella MZ Options Core VisuStella MZ VisuStella MZ This plugin is a part of the VisuStella MZ Plugin Library. Click here if you want to help support VisuStella on Patreon. Introduction Do you have voice acting in your game to add that extra bit of immersion? If you do, you have probably realized that RPG Maker MZ is not equipped with all the necessities that come with games that have voice acting in them. Some of these necessities include a different audio volume channel for voices alone, control for stopping specific voices that are playing, adding replayable voice tracks for the message window, etc. Features include all (but not limited to) the following: Adds a separate audio volume channel for voice acting specifically. This volume channel can be adjusted in the Options screen. This is useful for players who might want to turn down the volume for sound effects but not voices or vice versa. Use Plugin Commands to play specific sound files as a voice track. Plugin Parameters can be used to automatically set up certain sound files as voice tracks so that they play in the voice audio channel when even using PlaySE event command. Text Codes can be used to make the Message Window play specific voice sounds when new pages appear. These page-related voice lines can be replayed if the player presses the replay button added to the Message Window. Optionally, game devs can have Message Windows track whatever voice lines were playing before the Message Window appears and add that as its replay voice track. Requirements This plugin is made for RPG Maker MZ. This will not work in other iterations of RPG Maker. Required Plugin List Core Engine VisuStella MZ Message Core VisuStella MZ Options Core VisuStella MZ This plugin requires the above listed plugins to be installed inside your game's Plugin Manager list in order to work. You cannot start your game with this plugin enabled without the listed plugins. Tier 2 This plugin is a Tier 2 plugin. Place it under other plugins of lower tier value on your Plugin Manager list (ie: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). This is to ensure that your plugins will have the best compatibility with the rest of the VisuStella MZ Plugin library. Major Changes This plugin adds some new hard-coded features to RPG Maker MZ's functions. The following is a list of them. --- Play Sound Effects Naturally, if you are using the automatic filename voice line detection features of plugin, then there will be some function redirecting happening between regular sound effects and voice sounds. The AudioManager.playSe function is changed to redirect detected voice sounds to the voice audio channel instead of the sound effect audio channel. --- Replay Voice Button The replay voice button is an icon button added through this plugin. It does not overwrite anything but depending on the position it uses, it may or may not change how the text displayed in the Message Window looks For instance, if the button is on the left side of the Message Window, then the text will be shifted over to the right a bit more if there is no face graphic shown. If there is a face graphic shown, it will be displayed on top of the face graphic. If the button is shown on the right, then the Message Core's Word Wrap will end a bit early to give the button enough room for itself as well as not have any potential text covering it. --- VisuStella MZ Compatibility While this plugin is compatible with the majority of the VisuStella MZ plugin library, it is not compatible with specific plugins or specific features. This section will highlight the main plugins/features that will not be compatible with this plugin or put focus on how the make certain features compatible. --- Message Log VisuStella MZ The Message Log is updated so that it will display replay voice buttons on the upper left side of each logged entry (to the upper right side of the face graphic). --- Voice Language Switching Information As of Voice Acting Control version 1.03, Voice Language has been added. The "Voice Language" feature allows your players to switch between different languages for your game to allow people from around the globe to enjoy what story you have to tell. Disclaimers: This is not an automatic translation tool. Translations made through the "Voice Language" feature of the VisuStella MZ Voice Acting Control will require manual input by the game developer. --- How to Enable Switching Voice Language is NOT enabled by default. Here's what you have to do: Open up the Voice Acting Control plugin's Plugin Parameters Plugin Parameters > Language Switching > Enable Switching? Change the "Enable Switching?" parameter setting to "true". Adjust any other settings as needed. Save the Plugin Parameter changes. Save your game. --- How to Play Different Voice Lines Now, to play different voice lines based on what language the player has selected, we have to use a newly added Plugin Command. Open up a map event or common event you want to play the voice line in. Add a new Plugin Command. Select Voice Acting Control's "Sound: Play As Voice Line (Language)" Click on "Language Lines" and select the languages you'd like to voice. Select different voice files for each voiced language. For "Default Line", this will be played if no voiced line is found. --- Text Codes Text Codes are used in the Show Text event command. They are used to display things that text normally can't produce on its own, such as colors, get the name of a specific actor, change icons, and more. RPG Maker MZ already comes with text codes of its own: \V[n] Will be replaced with the value of the nth variable. \N[n] Will be replaced with the name of the nth actor. \P[n] Will be replaced by the name of the nth (arranged order) party member. \G Will be replaced by the currency unit. \C[n] Draw the subsequent text in the nth color. Text color conforms to the contents of the [Window.png] system image. \I[n] Draws the nth icon. \FS[n] Changes the text font size to 'n'. \{ Increases the text by 1 step. \} Decreases the text by 1 step. \\ Replaced with the backslash character. \$ Open the gold window. \. Wait for 1/4 second. \| Wait for 1 second. \! Wait for button input. \> Display remaining text on same line all at once. \< Cancel the effect that displays text all at once. \^ Do not wait for input after displaying the next. The following are text codes that you may use with this plugin. Type-Related Text Codes --- Text Code Effect (Message Window Only) <Voice: filename> Plays the 'filename' sound file found in /audio/se/ through the voice audio channel. <No Voice Replay> Hides the replace voice button if this text code is used in a message regardless of whether or not there's a voice being played. --- Plugin Commands Plugin Commands are event commands that are used to call upon functions added by a plugin that aren't inherently a part of RPG Maker MZ. Here is a list of Plugin Command(s) that you may use: --- The following are Plugin Commands that come with this plugin. They can be accessed through the Plugin Command event command. --- Sound Plugin Commands --- Sound: Play As Voice Line - Plays target SE as a Voice Line using the Voice Line volume channel. This is unaffected by SE volume channel. Filename: - Filename of the sound effect played. Volume: - Volume of the sound effect played. Pitch: - Pitch of the sound effect played. pan: - Pan of the sound effect played. --- Sound: Play As Voice Line (Language) - Plays a voice line based on target audio language. - Uses volume channel and not SE volume channel. Language Lines: - Determine which line is used based on which voice language the player has selected. Default Line: - Default voice line played when no language-based voice line is found. Volume: - Volume of the voice line played. Pitch: - Pitch of the voice line played. pan: - Pan of the voice line played. --- Sound: Stop All Voice Lines - Stops all currently playing Voice Lines. --- Sound: Stop Target Voice Lines - Stops target Voice Lines if they are currently playing. Specific Filenames: - Filenames of sound files that should be stopped as a Voice Line. - Case sensitive. Filename Text Markers: - Text markers used to automatically mark filenames (not folders) as a Voice Line. - Case sensitive. Specific Folders: - Anything that contains these folder names will be stopped as a Voice Line. - These can be main or sub folders. - Case sensitive. Folder Text Markers: - Text markers used to automatically mark folders (not filenames) for Voice Line playing. - Case sensitive. --- Plugin Parameters General Settings These are general settings used for this plugin. There is no specific type of category they belong to. --- Settings New Page > Register Voice: - If there is a PlaySE event command that places a voice sound before a new Message page, register it for replay? - Does not apply for sounds that aren't played through voice channel. End Page > Stop Voice: - Stop voices from playing whenever ending Message Window pages? - Does not apply to opening a new page for the first time. Option Name: - Command name of the option. --- Replace Voice Sprite Settings Settings that adjust the Replay Voice Sprite Button. --- Settings Show Sprite: - Shows the Replay Voice Sprite on the Message Window? --- Icons No Hover: - What icon is used when there is no mouse cursor hovering over it. Hovering: - What icon is used when there is a mouse cursor hovering over it. Parameter: - Description Parameter: - Description --- Positioning Positioning: - Where do you wish to position the Replay Voice Sprite? - Upper Left - Face Upper Right - Upper Right - Middle Left - Face Middle Right - Middle Right - Lower Left - Face Lower Right - Lower Right Offset X: - Offsets the sprite x position. - Negative: left. Positive: right. Offset Y: - Offsets the sprite y position. - Negative: up. Positive: down. --- Buffer Buffer Left: - Buffer the left positions unless there is a face image. - Does not apply if there is no face graphic. Buffer Right: - Buffer the right positions for word wrap to not overlap. - Non-word wrap can still overlap. Buffer Width: - What is the extra pixel width used for a buffer in addition to the icon width? --- Language Switching Settings Settings used to adjust audio changes for different languages. --- Main Settings: Enable Switching?: - Enable language switching settings for this plugin? --- Options: Add Option?: - Add the 'Language' option to the Options menu? Adjust Window Height: - Automatically adjust the options window height? Option Name: - Command name of the option. --- Languages: Default Language: - What is the default language used for this game? Supported Languages: - What are all the supported languages supported by this game's script? - Remove any that aren't translated. --- Language Names: Bengali: Chinese: Czech: Danish: Dutch: English: Finnish: French: German: Greek: Hindi: Hungarian: Indonesian: Italian: Japanese: Korean: Norwegian: Polish: Portuguese: Romanian: Russian: Slovak: Spanish: Swedish: Tamil: Thai: Turkish: --- Automatic Voice Acting Settings These plugin parameters allow you to automatically assign specific sound filenames as voice lines to be played in the voice audio channel as opposed to the sound effect channel. Specific filenames and folders will pertain to those exact filenames (case sensitive). If they match exactly, they will be placed in the voice channel. Text Markers will check to see if the sound filenames or folder names have the text markers inside them (case sensitive) to be played in voice channel. --- Filters Specific Filenames: - Filenames of sound files that should be played as a Voice Line. - Case sensitive. Filename Text Markers: - Text markers used to automatically mark filenames (not folders) as a Voice Line. - Case sensitive. Specific Folders: - Anything that contains these folder names will be played as a Voice Line. - These can be main or sub folders. - Case sensitive. Folder Text Markers: - Text markers used to automatically mark folders (not filenames) for Voice Line playing. - Case sensitive. --- Terms of Use 1. These plugins may be used in free or commercial games provided that they have been acquired through legitimate means at VisuStella.com and/or any other official approved VisuStella sources. Exceptions and special circumstances that may prohibit usage will be listed on VisuStella.com. 2. All of the listed coders found in the Credits section of this plugin must be given credit in your games or credited as a collective under the name: "VisuStella". 3. You may edit the source code to suit your needs, so long as you do not claim the source code belongs to you. VisuStella also does not take responsibility for the plugin if any changes have been made to the plugin's code, nor does VisuStella take responsibility for user-provided custom code used for custom control effects including advanced JavaScript notetags and/or plugin parameters that allow custom JavaScript code. 4. You may NOT redistribute these plugins nor take code from this plugin to use as your own. These plugins and their code are only to be downloaded from VisuStella.com and other official/approved VisuStella sources. A list of official/approved sources can also be found on VisuStella.com. 5. VisuStella is not responsible for problems found in your game due to unintended usage, incompatibility problems with plugins outside of the VisuStella MZ library, plugin versions that aren't up to date, nor responsible for the proper working of compatibility patches made by any third parties. VisuStella is not responsible for errors caused by any user-provided custom code used for custom control effects including advanced JavaScript notetags and/or plugin parameters that allow JavaScript code. 6. If a compatibility patch needs to be made through a third party that is unaffiliated with VisuStella that involves using code from the VisuStella MZ library, contact must be made with a member from VisuStella and have it approved. The patch would be placed on VisuStella.com as a free download to the public. Such patches cannot be sold for monetary gain, including commissions, crowdfunding, and/or donations. 7. 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Voice Language Switching added by Irina: Plugin Parameters > General > Language Switching Plugin Command > Sound: Play As Voice Line (Language) The "Voice Language" feature allows your players to switch between different languages for your game to allow people from around the globe to enjoy what story you have to tell. Disclaimers: This is not an automatic translation tool. Translations made through the "Voice Language" feature of the VisuStella MZ Voice Acting Control will require manual input by the game developer. Read more about it in detail within the "Voice Language Information" section in the help file. Version 1.02: December 14, 2023 Bug Fixes! Fixed a crash that would occur when trying to apply voice lines to a message without the message window having a proper container. Fix made by Irina. Version 1.01: August 17, 2023 Bug Fixes! Fixed a bug that caused a crash when trying to change the x position of the replay voice button. Fix made by Irina. Version 1.00 Official Release Date: August 28, 2023 Finished Plugin! See Also Inspiration Behind Visual Novel Volume 4 End of Helpfile