Dumb Question about voices
vecki:
I set up a new neighbourhood last night, deleteallcharacters'ed and then set the NPC maker to spawning new townies and downtownies. One of them, Ash Centowski, has no chemistry with my new sim Eldrene, although she thinks he's HOT. That doesn't stop him from calling 3-4 times a day though! 7am, 12pm, 4pm and 8pm!
He's a worse stalker than Marsha could ever manage.
baratron:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 October 18, 22:53:53
I have another voice question. Can an adult be given a YA voice and still remain an adult? I feel the same way someone mentioned earlier, where the adult voice is too drastic a change from what I'm used to for certain sims. I've been able to keep sims at the YA stage while living in the regular neighborhood, but there are a lot of problems with it.
I want to know this as well. I have a sim who is based on a real-life person, and for some reason the game has assigned him a deep, booming voice. The real-life person has a fairly high-pitched, quiet voice (when he sings, it sounds like he's whispering). I want to change it!
Loaded every house that contains an adult male to listen to their voices and made a list of sims with vaguely appropriate voices - but looking in SimPE, every single adult male sim has a different Voice Type. I have 19 sims here with 19 different numbers. I can't see any pattern in the (hexadecimal) numbers - it's not something simple like high number = high pitch and low number = low pitch. Has anyone looked into this?
Brynne:
I'm hoping someone will be able to explain this soon. The voice-types baffle me.
For now, my adult female has the adult squeaky voice, which I can't stand on her. The husky one won't work with her personality, either. I so strongly identify her with the YA voice, but I can't seem to make her stick at the YA age group. Before NL, you could cheat and set the age to YA even in the home neighborhood. I think NL changed this, because she keeps transitioning back to adult, now.
Zeljka:
I've messed with the voices quite a bit in PE but it never really occurred to me that different voices said different things.
I just assumed that Outgoing Sims were the ones that said something each time they passed someone and so on...(seems true in my game) As far as singing in the energizer, don't they all? I guess I never paid attention, but again, I was under the assumption that voices were either random or related to personality. I will have to check this out now.
I've had my fair share of glitches (I'll admit, I deserved many of them) and done a lot of voice replacing where data went missing after a crash. I just scanned through age groups and genders and listed what number meant what. (age/gender)
There was a bigger variety than I'd thought; at least a dozen for each and that was just copying from one neighbourhood, but I wasn't able to establish a pattern that clearly distinguished gender or even age. I did realize that I could get rid of the voices I really hated though. I had one really masculin Sim that had that really stupid high pitched laugh so I just replaced it with a the voice of a Sim I didn't mind listening to. I haven't noticed any fiery balls resulting. (could notice be the key word? nah, I don't have any voice or sound issues)
As for the age change thing... heh heh, due to yet another glitch, I had an adult that had recently transitioned up. When I re-entered the lot, she still looked elder, but was an adult. It was wonderful.
Ok, so she was saggy (easy to fix, find or create clothes based on adult meshes, then give them the elder code in PE property setting) but she was active and peppy and cute as a button.
I married her off to a funny looking repairman (the Remington Harris face with the sad eyes and big ears) and had her produce several babies, just so I could watch an 'elder' give birth.
I liked it so much that I changed a handful of nannies to adult in SimPE, while leaving them elder 'looking'. They seem better that way.
Brynne - could you not try just replacing her adult voice with the the YA voice you like in PE? I've had 'child' robots with adult voices, though again, this was through one of my 'transition' glitches, but maybe voice and age are not so important?
Hmm, considering voice testing... again, anything to continue procrastinating cleaning neighbourhoods so I can install the EPs.
Brynne:
I tried replacing her voice with a YA voice, but she still sounded like an adult. This was a while ago. I wonder if giving her a teen voice would work?
Your comment about the masculine sim with the "stupid high-pitched laugh" cracked me up. I know exactly the one you're talking about!
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