Elite Observatory - Search your journal for potentially interesting objects, or notify you of new ones on the fly while exploring!
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I don't think he's talking about themes. And even the basic light/dark theme are equity hard on the eyes. And the Hotdog Stand scheme is horrible.
There used to be some basic colors that made the whole interface more readable. Attached is what we see now. This used to be in basic RGB colors.
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I can't do that. And I can no longer change the path to my journal files. I've tried reinstalling, but I think I may have a deeper issues and don't know where to look.
You're using a woefully outdated version of bioinsights that isn't fully compatible with the current version of Observatory. You should get the latest one here: https://edjp.colacube.net/observatory
No one can. It's a preview of upcoming functionality. That's what I meant by "Sneakson McPeekson", which I guess wasn't clear enough.
As for changing the path to your journal files, you can do so by double-clicking it. It's been intentionally obfuscated because more people broke their Observatory config by changing it when they didn't need to than actually needed to change it.
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This was my situation as well, thank you for pointing this out.
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Herald voice notifications will be going offline within the next day in order to mitigate growing cloud costs associated with the Azure based voices being used. For now you will need to switch to the native voice notifications to continue getting spoken notifications.
Herald voice may return in a more limited fashion in the near future, or may migrate to being a Patreon pledge perk. More information soon.
Herald voice notifications will be going offline within the next day in order to mitigate growing cloud costs associated with the Azure based voices being used. For now you will need to switch to the native voice notifications to continue getting spoken notifications.
Herald voice may return in a more limited fashion in the near future, or may migrate to being a Patreon pledge perk. More information soon.
Fair. None of these things are free and you shouldn't have to soak up the costs. Windows 11 native voice synth sounds pretty good and will hopefully get better too.
I'm not sure what this means. Does it mean that ALL the voices in Herald - for example, my personal favourite, the Irish lass - are going bye bye?
I'm not at the computer atm so I'm not sure what the 'native" voice is, where to find it or what is sounds like.
I'm not at the computer atm so I'm not sure what the 'native" voice is, where to find it or what is sounds like.
Yes, that's correct for now. The Herald voices cost money to provide, and while I was willing to soak that cost for a long time the recent surge in popularity of both Elite Dangerous and Observatory have caused it to grow to unsustainable amounts. Unfortunately that does include Emily.
The "native" voices use the built-in windows text to speech and are only available when Herald isn't present or is disabled.
If the native voice drop-down could enable selecting any additionally downloaded MS Windows voices that'd go a long way to making up for Herald being unavailable. E.g. the only available ones in the app David and Zira are pretty bad, whereas some of these that I have downloaded in Windows are much more passable.
This is something I do want to look into. I'm not exactly sure why all installed local voices don't show up, just that it's some kind of limitation with the basic .NET voice synthesis library. There might be a different one I can use that will expose more voices.
Is the "GetInstalledVoices" method available to retrieve a list of installed voices? i.e. SpeechSynthesizer.GetInstalledVoices()
ObservatoryCore/ObservatoryCore/UI/CoreForm.Settings.cs at 27dd097b08a390f2021a5e8501ae062485f0d58f · Xjph/ObservatoryCore
Elite Observatory: Extensible tool for processing Elite Dangerous journals - Xjph/ObservatoryCore
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Yes. The selection it provides is what you see in Observatory.
Dammit, stupid .NET lol
ObservatoryCore/ObservatoryCore/UI/CoreForm.Settings.cs at 27dd097b08a390f2021a5e8501ae062485f0d58f · Xjph/ObservatoryCore
Elite Observatory: Extensible tool for processing Elite Dangerous journals - Xjph/ObservatoryCore
Yes. The selection it provides is what you see in Observatory.
There are solutions, they're just a bit kludgey and there hasn't been a pressing need to implement them until now.
As I said, it will be something I look into.
I completely understand. Thank you.
- Interestingly... after a couple of restarts Microsoft Hazel (not too bad) and Haruka are now showing up in the drop down selector...