awesome idea
i hope they add it eventually

Yup, it's a good idea!

Bonk.

If this works no more high pitched squealy noise for me!

I agree, I'm sick of my evil empires sounding panicky.

I got some concept sketches for the slider icons! And I agree, Maxis should actually use this suggestion. I'm tired of my adorable masterpieces sounding like gruesome monsters.



Ta-da! Now, anyone who has photoshop can get working, so Maxis can have a good start. Ahem. When they get it, probably. But read the below first so you know which is which.

Robotic (Grox Icon) - Controls the amount of metallic vocoder effects to make the voice sound robotic.

Pitch (Icon with half female and half male) - Similar to MySims. Controls the pitch, helps to understand gender. (High pitch reccommended for cute creatures)

Echo (Icon that seems to be shaking) - Makes the voice have up to two seconds of echoes. Makes it sound hypnotic and creepy.

Rough (Icon same as red Relationship icon in Creature Stage) - Makes the creature sound like it has a sore throat. Can sound like insect if used with very high pitch.
(Mouths other than Gobsterclaw - Pincernaut can have the same effect.)

Primordal (Octopus Alien) - Makes the voice sound like it's underwater (blubbity blub).

Tone (Music Note) - Two sliders. One controls how much the voice is forced to contain only one pitch, as if it were singing. The other selects the pitch of the note you would like it to preform when heard.

Voice Selection (Sorry, no icon) - Click button to turn on/off. When enabled, it gives a menu of preset voices if you prefer something other than the automatic voice your mouth has.

Dice (Not listed-Maxis already has it) - Randomizes the above for an interesting effect if you're too lazy to actually fine-tune everything.

So how's that sound?

Well...maybe there should be an icon at each end of the slider...dunno.

We should have all the archetype voices, then be able to raise/lower the pitch. I'd use a really deep shaman voice. My mum hates that.

LeopardoDeVinci wrote:I got some concept sketches for the slider icons! And I agree, Maxis should actually use this suggestion. I'm tired of my adorable masterpieces sounding like gruesome monsters.



Ta-da! Now, anyone who has photoshop can get working, so Maxis can have a good start. Ahem. When they get it, probably. But read the below first so you know which is which.

Robotic (Grox Icon) - Controls the amount of metallic vocoder effects to make the voice sound robotic.

Pitch (Icon with half female and half male) - Similar to MySims. Controls the pitch, helps to understand gender. (High pitch reccommended for cute creatures)

Echo (Icon that seems to be shaking) - Makes the voice have up to two seconds of echoes. Makes it sound hypnotic and creepy.

Rough (Icon same as red Relationship icon in Creature Stage) - Makes the creature sound like it has a sore throat. Can sound like insect if used with very high pitch.
(Mouths other than Gobsterclaw - Pincernaut can have the same effect.)

Primordal (Octopus Alien) - Makes the voice sound like it's underwater (blubbity blub).

Tone (Music Note) - Two sliders. One controls how much the voice is forced to contain only one pitch, as if it were singing. The other selects the pitch of the note you would like it to preform when heard.

Voice Selection (Sorry, no icon) - Click button to turn on/off. When enabled, it gives a menu of preset voices if you prefer something other than the automatic voice your mouth has.

Dice (Not listed-Maxis already has it) - Randomizes the above for an interesting effect if you're too lazy to actually fine-tune everything.

So how's that sound?

Well...maybe there should be an icon at each end of the slider...dunno.

This.

And while Your playing with the voice sliders "as Leopardo showed" The creature would be talking like it does sometimes in the Civilization outfitter. I would think you could select what kind of syllables the creature uses. Like "Ah, Bah, Cah, Dah." and "Oh, Boh, Coh, Doh" and so on. But that would be way to complicated and be unnecessary!

Wonderful idea!

Maybe you can also change the voice of an existing creature from someone else within your game if you start a game with their creature in an advanced stage where they talk.

I play Hatsune Miku in Space Phase, and the deep manly voice just doesn't suit Miku in the slightest.

I know that the voices change with profession, but I want to just start from space phase and not have a deep manly voice for Miku by default.

At the very least, let us freely choose between the existing voices.

At the very least, alter the tribal stage voices for the archetypes and civ types.

Yes! Maybe we can have some unique languages for different races. Makes the game seem more realistic.

That would be AWESOME!!! I like LeopardoDeVinci's idea.

I agree, we should also be able to add language aswell...

yes