These scripts fixes the voicelines issue for Plutonium T5SP dedicated servers.
When T5SP is running in dedicated server mode, its sound engine is disabled thus
sound files aren't loaded.
In order to play a voiceline, the server tries to determine the number of
variants the voiceline has through a GSC function called get_number_variants
located in _zombiemode_spawner.gsc:
get_number_variants(aliasPrefix)
{
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
if(!SoundExists(aliasPrefix + "_" + i))
{
return i;
}
}
}Given that the server doesn't load sounds, the function SoundExists always
returns 0 and the GSC function in charge of handling voicelines returns
immediately without doing anything because it thinks there are no variants to
play.
SoundExists is a built-in function, which means its source code isn't written
in GSC but is directly built into the game executable thus we cannot easily put
our hands on it.
The GSC files of the vox_defs folders have been generated with the help of the
two following scripts:
-
zm_vox_dumper.gsc: retrieves and prints all voicelines names and their number
of variants in a pre-formatted GSC syntax to the Plutonium console. The number
of variants is obtained by callingget_number_variants, on each map, for each
voiceline. -
dump_helper.py: parses the console output text file (that you have to export
somehow) and generates all the GSC files with hardcoded arrays in a dedicated
folder for each map.
If you want to try this process yourself, take a look here.
The core of the fix resides in the following script:
- zm_vox_fix.gsc: loads the hardcoded voicelines arrays and assigns them properly
to the players. One array is dedicated to George (Call of the Dead) because his
voicelines were also affected by the sound issue.
Download the latest release, extract the ZIP archive content to the T5
storage folder of your dedicated server and you're good to go.
Default T5 storage folder on Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plutonium\storage\t5