Oh (the elite forums seriously censor out "eff eff ess"?!). The criteria and materials iterator are both fine, it was just an incomplete copy/paste and we all missed it. Look at the script termination closely:
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It's missing a:.
LOL, figures.
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LOL, figures.
Sneak peek:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrtHEYt0f6g
Still some final polish needed, and the settings are incomplete, but release is looking imminent.
Still some final polish needed, and the settings are incomplete, but release is looking imminent.
Ran into some small issues that prevented me from releasing this morning, and now I have to start work. Release for sure later this evening, in the meantime here's another sample, for those of you who might want your "science officer" to sound perpetually annoyed:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUh4boYufDY
The Herald of a New Age
Release The Herald of a New Age · Xjph/ObservatoryCore
This release fulfills what might be my longest standing request: A more modern text-to-speech synthesizer. (#3) Bundled in both the installer and standalone .zip is the newly minted Observatory Her...
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This release fulfills what might be my longest standing request: A more modern text-to-speech synthesizer. (#3)
Bundled in both the installer and standalone .zip is the newly minted Observatory Herald plugin, which uses Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services for cloud-based speech synthesis.
Using the Herald plugin should be as simple as picking a voice and enabling the plugin. Though I do strongly recommend that you do not leave both the native voice notifications and Herald enabled at the same time. A wide variety of English speaking voices with many different regional accents are available. Regrettably I have chosen to disable non-English voices as giving them English text to read produces awkward and often incorrect results.
In the event that you have your own Azure subscription and would prefer to use it instead of my own you can provide an API key in Herald's settings to use in place of mine. As this is my first foray into a cloud-based service like this and it may be neccessary for me to "pull the plug" and disable the API key used by Herald if issues arise, in which case you will need to supply your own for it to continue to function, but hopefully it will not come to that.
There are also some significant changes to the underlying Framework which will almost certainly break existing plugins.
In addition to the above there are a number of smaller changes and bugfixes in this release:
- Error popup window now reports (some?) plugin initialization errors, and has been changed to be non-modal.
- Close and colliding binary checks in Explorer actually do something now.
- Fixes an issue while reading fleet carrieer data caused by a free space underflow in the values reported by Frontier (#14).
- Adds missing values for station services (#31).
- Sanity check window position before saving or loading values (#32).
- Add missing value for docking denied reasons (#33).
- Fixes a possible null reference exception when processing barycentres (#26).
- Internal refactor of notification handling and plugin loading.
- Added support for plugin settings that use a dropdown list of values with single selected backing value (type Dictionary<string, object> for dropdown, string for backing value, see Herald plugin settings for reference).
- Added more xml documentation to Framework library.
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Oh, I am aware of a strange quality issue with the audio from Observatory Herald. At least in my own testing there was some intermittant clicking/skipping which I believe is being caused by the audio library I'm using. It will be fixed, but didn't want to push back the release even more by gutting the audio output piece of the plugin and starting it over.
no problem with sound quality on this end... in fact, is it wrong to have a crush on the science officer? Asking for a friend
I must admit Spock does have a very nice voice, so no it is not wrong!
These feelings are natural, and I encourage you to embrace them.no problem with sound quality on this end... in fact, is it wrong to have a crush on the science officer? Asking for a friend
PS. After giving it a good testing, in FSS and on the surface bio scanning... great work @Vithigar Loving it!
Has something changed in the current version of the program related to Win7 support? Launch on Win7 and get 2 errors:
1. Entry point CreateFile32 was not found in the KERNEL32.dll dynamic library
2. You are missing gstreamer-1.0-0.dll
Then the program starts and runs.
But errors at the start of the program are very annoying.
At the same time, the previous version did not give out such errors.
1. Entry point CreateFile32 was not found in the KERNEL32.dll dynamic library
2. You are missing gstreamer-1.0-0.dll
Then the program starts and runs.
But errors at the start of the program are very annoying.
At the same time, the previous version did not give out such errors.
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Windows 7 has been End-Of-Life for, what, 2 years now? It's not even getting security updates now, is it? Hell, even Windows 10 has had it's EOL date announced... maybe it's time to upgrade to an OS still supported by it's maker, and that'll have gaping security holes patched...?
There should not be any breaking changes that I'm aware of for Windows 7 users, but it's possible the Herald plugin - which is completely new - has some dependencies that are incompatible. If you remove the plugin do the same errors occur? Do the errors happen if you try removing all plugins? If not, you can try adding plugins back one at a time to see which one is causing it.
Chill.
After some investigation of my own it does look like the Azure Cognitive Services speech libraries will not load on Windows 7. So unfortunately you won't be able to use Observatory Herald, but the rest should continue functioning normally.
That said, there are some changes that I want to make to Herald which will remove the dependency on the Azure libraries. I'll let you know if/when I get that out the door if you want to try again at some point, but that probably won't be for a few weeks.
Thanks! The error disappears when I delete the plugin ObservatoryHerald.dll
I will use it like this for now. Thank you for the great program! We will wait for updates.
Noted. Will be fixed in next release, but should still be able to use in the meantime after you close the window. Shouldn't pop up at all while out exploring.
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Completely new to this so forgive me for asking stupid questions. Just installed it but cant find any setting button to pick a voice. do I need to install anyhting else in addiiton to your app to get voice notifications?
Edit: Nevermind, saw the "Core" section.
Didn't need to do it for mine, it must look in the default location and only need manual directing if you changed it yourself, or it fails to find it automatically.