Toggle Optional Player Voice Acting in preferences GUI?

[Fluffyre]

I want to have the ability for players to toggle optional voice acting for the player character in the preferences menu. One for male voice, and one for female.

I'm brand new to Ren'Py, and have no idea how to go about coding this in. Any help is appreciated, and I'll make sure to check in here frequently to answer any questions.

[qirien]

You can edit the Preferences menu in screens.rpy. Then you could add in some code like this:

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vbox:
                    style_prefix "radio"
                    label _("PC Voice")
                    textbutton _("Male") action SetVariable("voice_gender", "male")
                    textbutton _("Female") action SetVariable("voice_gender", "female")

Then, in your code, where you normally call:

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voice "male_line01.ogg"

You should instead call a function that can check the voice gender and play the right sound. For example:

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python:
    def v(filename):
        renpy.voice("voice_gender_" + filename + ".ogg")

label start:
    $ v("line01")
    mc "This should play using the right gender from the Preferences menu."

If you're going to use auto-voicing, then you could probably do it a different way with player tags, but to me this seems the easiest
See https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/voice.html

[Fluffyre]

Thank you! I'll test this out once I get my voice lines in. ^^