[SOLVED] Text pauses not working during voice play after update?

[rooftopsrevolution]

Hello!
I've used an old version of Ren'py until recently and I've never had an issue. Now, when I'm trying to insert voice acting, if a {w=x.x} tag is placed in the dialogue while a voice track is played, the text will pause at that point until the voice track is complete. I used this for pacing dialogue to voice actors' lines, and I'm not sure what changed. Is there a way to fix this? or should I revert back to the old ren'py build?
Thank you in advance!

Example:

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voice "clip1.mp3"
person "This is my dialogue.{w=0.5} When letter-to-letter mode is on, this message will appear after 0.5 seconds"

In the above example, the sound clip will play and "This is my dialogue" will show and pause. It does not stop for 0.5 seconds, however but the duration of the sound file. So if my soundfile is 10 seconds long, the pause will remain for 10 seconds and then the second half of the sentence will be played.

Just to be clear, this is how I pace my voice acting to sync with the game. It worked fine on the 2017 build of Ren'py so I'm so confused.

[UPDATE]
I reverted to 6.99 and it works fine. I guess I'll stick to that until there's a solid answer.

[RESOLVED]
Solution below Thank you!

[Chekhov]

I'm not sure about the tag you're describing. The modern usage of voice acting is here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/voice.html

Do you use similar code or different?

[rooftopsrevolution]

I'm not sure about the tag you're describing. The modern usage of voice acting is here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/voice.html

Do you use similar code or different?

Hi!
Yes that’s how I’m using voices. When I use the pause tag within text to pause the text from going any further for a specified time (i.e {w=0.5}) the text pauses until the audio file completes instead of pausing for the specified amount of time.

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voice “line1.mp3”
person “this is text{w=0.5} This text will show after 0.5 seconds of letter-by-letter is enabled”

^^ in this example, the voice will play, then the text will stop at the pause but then it will wait until the audio track is finished I instead of pausing for 0.5 seconds. Just to be clear this is my fourth visual novel and I’ve never had this issue before.

[Chekhov]

I just tested it out and it works exactly the same for me;

it waits far longer when the voice is still going (I used a 10 min file, so I presume it would have continued). When I remove the voice line, it waits only half a second.

My first instinct is that it's a bug in renpy, but I don't have enough experience to say that for sure.

[rooftopsrevolution]

I just tested it out and it works exactly the same for me;

it waits far longer when the voice is still going (I used a 10 min file, so I presume it would have continued). When I remove the voice line, it waits only half a second.

My first instinct is that it's a bug in renpy, but I don't have enough experience to say that for sure.

Alright, so I'm not just sleep deprived. It's probably a bug since I'm not finding any information on why it was changed. Thanks for the help chekhov!

[Imperf3kt]

Add this to your game somewhere. I'd put it in options.rpy

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config.nw_voice = False

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompat ... tible-6-99

That should make the wait tag revert to legacy behaviour.

[rooftopsrevolution]

Add this to your game somewhere. I'd put it in options.rpy

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config.nw_voice = False

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/incompat ... tible-6-99

That should make the wait tag revert to legacy behaviour.

Thank you so, so much! I was searching everywhere for something about it so I appreciate it! Works like a charm!

[Imperf3kt]

Glad I could help.
I received a lot of help from some very patient people when I first joined, so I try to give back to the community where I can.