ACCEPTED Guard Dialogue Overhaul - UHDAP Patch (by mnikjom Eckss sharrken)

[Mousetick]

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Guard Dialogue Overhaul - UHDAP Patch by mnikjom Eckss sharrken
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Guard Dialogue Overhaul - UHDAP Patch (by mnikjom) restores the "HD" voices from the Unofficial High Definition Audio Project for use by GDO (which comes with its own voice files). Not all of them, mind, but a large portion of them. Not sure why, the patch MA only says "Not everything is covered yet. I wasn't able to find some voice lines."

There is no plugin. Can be installed anywhere/anytime, the loose files from the patch will override GDO's BSA.

[z929669]

  On 12/7/2021 at 7:09 AM, Mousetick said:

Guard Dialogue Overhaul - UHDAP Patch (by mnikjom) restores the "HD" voices from the Unofficial High Definition Audio Project for use by GDO (which comes with its own voice files). Not all of them, mind, but a large portion of them. Not sure why, the patch MA only says "Not everything is covered yet. I wasn't able to find some voice lines."

There is no plugin. Can be installed anywhere/anytime, the loose files from the patch will override GDO's BSA.

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Good find if it works as advertised. If you find anything out in your own testing, we can create the mod topic for 2.0.0.

[Mousetick]

  On 12/7/2021 at 2:01 PM, z929669 said:

Good find if it works as advertised. If you find anything out in your own testing, we can create the mod topic for 2.0.0.

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I don't know how I'd be able to test them in-game because these specific GDO voice lines are heard only under specific circumstances and the trigger logic is in GDO.

I converted them to WAV and I can hear a difference in quality when played on a music player with headphones. Whether it's worth installing yet another (incomplete) patch mod for that, I don't know. You folks can decide.

I've attached one sample for A/B testing. Can you tell which is which?

voice line A.wavFetching info... voice line B.wavFetching info...

[z929669]

  On 12/7/2021 at 2:58 PM, Mousetick said:

I don't know how I'd be able to test them in-game because these specific GDO voice lines are heard only under specific circumstances and the trigger logic is in GDO.

I converted them to WAV and I can hear a difference in quality when played on a music player with headphones. Whether it's worth installing yet another (incomplete) patch mod for that, I don't know. You folks can decide.

I've attached one sample for A/B testing. Can you tell which is which?

voice line A.wav 1.04 MB · 0 downloads voice line B.wav 1.04 MB · 0 downloads

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Quality is good on both, but volume is a bit higher in 'A'.

Since there is no plugin, and if the replacements better match UHDAP, it seems like a no-brainer to me even if not everything is covered. Testing them manually like this is fine. I may take a closer look later.

[Mousetick]

  On 12/7/2021 at 3:09 PM, z929669 said:

Quality is good on both, but volume is a bit higher in 'A'.

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Yes. Original GDO is A and UHDAP patch is B. The lower volume in B seems to be consistent with the voice volume in UHDAP. Voice line A has more hiss and other noise than B, but it's pretty subtle.

[Greg]

I split this conversation from Guard Dialog Overhaul so it doesn't get lost in the weeds, but we want to vet the modgroup for this one. Guard Dialog Overhaul - UHDAP Patch is packaged as loose files that always override the audio files in Guard Dialog Overhaul.bsa regardless of which modgroup it is in. This one is purely audio files so it seems to belong in 07-Sounds and Music instead of 13-Gameplay Immersion and it's not a patch per se.

[z929669]

  On 12/9/2021 at 10:53 AM, Greg said:

I split this conversation from Guard Dialog Overhaul so it doesn't get lost in the weeds, but we want to vet the modgroup for this one. Guard Dialog Overhaul - UHDAP Patch is packaged as loose files that always override the audio files in Guard Dialog Overhaul.bsa regardless of which modgroup it is in. This one is purely audio files so it seems to belong in 07-Sounds and Music instead of 13-Gameplay Immersion and it's not a patch per se.

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Agree. Thanks

[z929669]

Do we want to include this one? I will vote 'yes' if others don't disagree.

[TechAngel85]

I don't see any reason why not. Yes.

[z929669]

Added to wiki, ModList, etc.

[CorneliusC]

This mod's files override might not work anymore with GDO's latest ESL version (due to the changes in data formats), at least MO doesn't show me any conflicts/overrides with the ESL version, but shows them with the (older) ESP version. This is also mentioned on the mod's posts page.

[z929669]

  On 8/11/2024 at 9:23 AM, CorneliusC said:

This mod's files override might not work anymore with GDO's latest ESL version (due to the changes in data formats), at least MO doesn't show me any conflicts/overrides with the ESL version, but shows them with the (older) ESP version. This is also mentioned on the mod's posts page.

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Are you saying that v2.19 ESP version looks and works correctly? How would MO show plugin conflicts? Do you mean xEdit?

Ignore that^. I was assuming we were talking about plugin conflicts, but this mod only provides the sound files for the references the GDO plugin, which changed in the ESL version of GDO.

We'll be using the ESP version of GDO until this patch is updated by the MA.

[CorneliusC]

  On 8/11/2024 at 11:33 PM, z929669 said:

I was assuming we were talking about plugin conflicts, but this mod only provides the sound files for the references the GDO plugin, which changed in the ESL version of GDO.

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Yes, thank you, that is what i meant, the sound files of the UHDAP patch were not overwriting any files in the BSA of the ESL version active, at least MO was not showing anything in terms of conflicts.

I'll gladly stay with the ESP version.