#342 closed defect (fixed)
SIMON1TALKIE: Voice dialogs overlap quite often
| Reported by: | SF/madshi | Owned by: | Kirben |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: AGOS |
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| Cc: | Game: | Simon the Sorcerer 1 |
Description
Newest daily build, win32, simon1win talkie.
When having extensive dialog scenes, the dialogs quite often overlap. E.g. when talking to the 4 magicians. Sometimes Simon even talks to sentences at the same time. But sometimes the dialogs are fully ok.
Ticket imported from: #580972. Ticket imported from: bugs/342.
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Change History (32)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
comment:2 by , 22 years ago
eriktorbjorn made a patch, which is no in CVS. Mathias, can you please try with latest CVS (or wait 24 hours and use the nightly build), to see if the bug is gone now?
comment:3 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:5 by , 22 years ago
I'm sorry to say, but the bug is still there. Let me attach 2 save games. The first one is Simon meeting the 4 magicians. Just talk to them. Simon will say something like "Listen to me for a moment", one magician will say "Yes, boy.". But those 2 sentences already overlap. The second savegame is Simon meeting the barbarian. After the fragment is removed from the foot of the barbarian, the dialog overlaps extremely bad. Just try it out.
Thank you!!
P.S: Forgot to say, it's the german version, hope it makes no difference...
comment:6 by , 22 years ago
I'm starting to think we're talking of different bugs after all. Do you mean that there are several different messages on screen at the same time, and that these are overlapping each other?
The problem I had - and possibly fixed - was where lines from the same message were overlapping.
Unfortunately the version of Simon the Sorcerer that I bought doesn't seem to have subtitles at all, so even if I knew how this code worked - which I don't - I wouldn't be able to test this. :-(
comment:7 by , 22 years ago
My Simon1 doesn't show dialog text on screen. The dialogs are audio only. The audio overlaps. Well, at least it proves that the mixer is working well... :-)
comment:8 by , 22 years ago
Ah, now I understand what you mean. I've heard that happening a few times, but never spontaneously. I.e. it's always been when I've tried to do something to interrupt something else.
I wonder how many different versions of Simon the Sorcerer there are anyway. There seem to be two on the CD I bought, and I have no idea what the difference between them is...
comment:9 by , 22 years ago
I have 2 Simon1 CDs with 3 different versions. But I think all 3 versions have the same overlap problem. Just try out the barbarian save game, it's extreme there!
comment:10 by , 22 years ago
I see what you mean. I'll let you know if I figure anything out, but don't count on anything soon. I'm still very new to ScummVM, and the Simon interpreter probably isn't the easiest place to start digging.
comment:11 by , 22 years ago
No problem at all. Simon1 is absolutely playable as it is. It's just a minor bug. Thank you!
comment:12 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | removed |
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| Summary: | SIMON: Dialogs overlap quite often → SIMON: Voice dialogs overlap quite often |
comment:13 by , 21 years ago
Does the voice overlaping problems still occur ? I think the barbarian voice overlaps are fixed but not sure about the other scene with four wizards.
comment:14 by , 21 years ago
I'm sorry, but the overlapping is still there for me with the german version, also (and most noticably) with the barbarian. And it does not overlap in the original simon exe. There are several other situations where the dialogs overlap more or less noticably. It seems to me, that the synchronization is not really stable yet...
comment:15 by , 21 years ago
Unfortunately I can't reproduce this one either, I get no voice overlaps at all in barbarian scene since problem of sound effects cutting off speech was fixed. The only time I get voice overlap in the fours wizards scene in pub is when they are chatting as I attempt to talk to them.
I have noticed a few spots that cause a double voice (Looking at books in Sordid's Tower) and when voice cuts off too early (When talking to Soridd) but none with just voice overlapping.
comment:16 by , 21 years ago
The interesting thing is that both the dialog overlap and the graphical glitch in the barbarian scene occur exactly at the same time, namely when the barbarian begins to thank Simon for helping him. Perhaps after all those 2 effects have to do with each other? I don't know.
How about this: You're working on Simon2, perhaps some fixes you will do there will secretly fix my Simon1 problems. So if you ask me, you could close this bug report now as not reproducable. I can some weeks/months later, when Simon2 is at 90-95%, check out those barbarian problems again. If they still occur then, I can post a new bug report. What do you think?
comment:17 by , 21 years ago
I will keep this bug report open for now, even though I can't re- repduce it. It will be a long time before Simon 2 is close to 95% complete. Could you check if problem has been resolved by changes in the last few days ? as there have been several sound related changes recently.
comment:18 by , 21 years ago
| Component: | Engine: AGOS |
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| Game: | Simon the Sorcerer 1 |
comment:19 by , 21 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: AGOS |
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| Game: | → Simon the Sorcerer 1 |
comment:22 by , 21 years ago
This bug also occurs with my german version of Simon the Sorcerer (Talkie and Win) using the latest daily snapshot for windows (ScummVM 0.3.1cvs Built on Feb 15 2003 10:27:54).
One example to reproduce: at the beginning of the game go to the blacksmith und try "give door to blacksmith" and Simon will say two sentences simultaniously.
comment:23 by , 21 years ago
| Game: | Simon the Sorcerer 1 → Simon the Sorcerer 2 |
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| Summary: | SIMON: Voice dialogs overlap quite often → SIMON1TALKIE: Voice dialogs overlap quite often |
comment:24 by , 21 years ago
Most of these particular speech overlaps seems limited to English/German versions of simon1talkie. The last examples given on this bug report and on forums don't occur in simon1win or in simon1talkie versions (French/Hebrew/Italian/Spanish) with combined speech/subtitles. The only obvious different between these versions, is the English/German versionns are missing the subtitles for these lines, although I'm not sure why that would make a difference....
comment:25 by , 21 years ago
All voice overlaps should now be fixed in ScummVM cvs, all the cases reported on this bug report no longer occur. I was finally able to reproduce that barbarian one too, never choose that particular response before. Please confirm all the voice overlaps are gone and if you notice any other spots, please list the exact responses used.
comment:26 by , 21 years ago
It seems to be fixed now!
And - the barbarian overdraw graphical glitches I reported (don't know whether you remember) seem to be gone at the same time!
Well done! :-)
comment:27 by , 21 years ago
| Status: | new → closed |
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comment:28 by , 21 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
comment:29 by , 19 years ago
| Component: | Engine: AGOS → Engine: AGI |
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| Game: | Simon the Sorcerer 2 → Space Quest 2 |
comment:30 by , 17 years ago
| Component: | Engine: AGI → Engine: AGOS |
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| Game: | Space Quest 2 → Simon the Sorcerer 1 |
I assume this is the same problem I see in the Simon1 demo, where a message that should come out as four lines comes out as two lines of garbled characters.
That problem seems to be that SimonState::talk_with_text() doesn't break the text correctly. It's supposed to look something like like this:
Some sort of magical barrier located just off screen is stopping me.
But instead the text it tries to output is
Some sort of magical barrier located just off screen is stopping me.
So it seems that the function has inserted the spaces to center the lines, but not the newline characters.
I still haven't figured out exactly how this function is supposed to work. It looks needlessly complicated, but surely there has to be a reason for that...?