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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Change voice speed and pitch?

« on: August 05, 2009, 10:15:35 am »

I'm using Haptek characters in UltraHal Assistant 6.2. I'm using the Adult Female #1 British English [L&H] voice, and i really like this voice, except the characters speak too fast. It's hard for me to understand them clearly. I've been trying to configure the pitch and speed of the voice to my liking. I can go into the advanced speech options and change the voice, but when i click "Apply" and start a conversation, the voice is still the default voice.

 I've tried various ways to change the voice, but haven't been successful. I can get the voice to change on startup, by adding pitch and speed settings in the startup dialog, for example -

Pit=250\Spd=75Hello <username>! My name is <halname>.

Also with the Dreamer plug-in active, the dreams are spoken in this voice. But normal conversation with Hal doesn't change. Is there any way to change the voice for normal conversation with Haptek characters, and also when Hal reads from text files? I've searched the forum archives, but haven't found an answer.

Regards
Dave

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin loading errors

« on: August 04, 2009, 11:58:22 am »

Thanks for the welcome. I'm still learning about Hal, also i have People Putty, and am learning how to create characters for UltraHal. Having lots of fun.

I am using Windows XP, 32-bit. That doesn't seem to be the problem. Can't understand why some skins load ok, and some don't. I even tried putting the path to the skin images in the .uhp file, but that didn't work. :-(

Regards
Dave

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin loading errors

« on: August 04, 2009, 10:07:11 am »

That's true, the images are not being loaded for the non-working skins. I downloaded your Clear Skin, and manually moved the files to the proper folders. But i get the same error message. Here is a screenshot of this skin -

Regards
Dave

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin loading errors

« on: August 04, 2009, 08:31:37 am »

UltraHal is installed in the C:Program Files default folder, and the installers are working correctly. I checked the folders to make sure. My screen resolution is 1024 x 768, although that shouldn't make a difference, since some skins are working properly.

Here is a list of the skins that do work -
Default
Evil Brain
Hand Held
Lithium
Plastek
Strange Sky
Windows Default

Here are the skins that do not work -
BigBlue
Blued
Compact Black
Custom Skin 1
Hal 9000
Large Character Skin
Maximus Skin
Pewter
Simple Device
Cool Blue
Smoothy 1
StarTrek Hand Held
Tall 3
Tall Blue
Tall Gold
WMP Skin

It's a real mystery why some work and some don't. :-(

Regards
Dave

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin loading errors

« on: August 03, 2009, 11:39:15 pm »

I forgot to mention that i did purchase the expansion pack. I can't figure out what's wrong. The .uhp files and the images files are in the correct folder. Most skins come with a setup installer, so that should be automatic.

Regards
Dave

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Skin loading errors

« on: August 03, 2009, 09:22:42 pm »

Hi. I recently purchased UltraHal Assistant 6.2, so i'm new here. I've playing with it, trying to get it configured to my satisfaction. So far so good, except i am having trouble getting skins to load properly. I have about 25 interface skins, but only 4 work like they should.

I get "error 380 invalid property value occurred at line 11 in UltraHal Assistant: SkinLoader. LoadSkinImages"

If i click on "ignore" the skins will load, but don't display as the should (like the preview image), the background is all black. I don't have any tall skins that work properly. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this error message, and how can i fix it?

Thanks
Dave