Voice recording?

I use Audacity. It can change voices in pitch, tempo, speed, etc. It can't do accents or anything like that.

You should be able to find voice actors here on the Artemis forums. Just ask. Try to give them sparkling, witty dialog.

You can have wormholes suck named objects toward them. Simply create the objects at known locations and do all the vector calculations before writing the script. You can also make asteroids as generic objects that get sucked slowly toward your wormholes. It's possible to do it with mines and nebulae but it would take a lot of programming (creating and destroying each one individually to simulate movement).

Every attempt I've made to use Audacity to alter my voice ends up sounding way to robotic. Like a badly done autotune song. I used pitch changing and warbling to make one altered voice -the computer voice where that robotic effect makes sense. For any human voice it just didn't seem to cut it. Then again I'm not a sound engineer so I don't understand the majority of the options and filters in Audacity.

The wormholes themselves also drift and move which is why it's giving me such a problem. One of the biggest limitations of the mission script system is that it is incapable of using anything other than string literals hardcoded in the file. So it's impossible to say things like "if object A's X coordinate is less than object B's X coordinate". You can add, subtract, and clone a property to another object, but you can't put them into a variable, and you can't write a comparator statement where the value="..." bit is referring to the value inside a variable rather than a literal string you decided ahead of time. This requirement that everything be a literal decided up front is the biggest limitation of the system right now. It might help speed things up to never ever have to evaluate a variable value after loading the file, but it's quite crippling and makes it impossible to do anything non-trivial in a "mission script". Even just a simple syntax like: value="{cargo ship}.{positionX}" would be a vast improvement. Just putting a thing to parse any string formatted thusly into the internal equivalent (not just in value="..." but in *any* parameter anywhere - do it universally to all strings read in anywhere in the XML file) would be a massive boon to the system, and it would prove that it might be possible to hook it up with a better language later after that hurdle is passed. But the first hurdle is to make sure the game internals can deal with doing all those lookups on the fly fast enough to be functional.

Have you considered just asking people on this forum to do basic voice recording and send you the audio files? You could send out a script (with only the one persons lines), maybe including some lines that you won't use, but might obfuscate the storyline, thus not ruining the mission for everyone who was a voice actor.

Some of us, like me, who are just getting into mission scripting, might be willing to trade one recording for another.

Have you considered just asking people on this forum to do basic voice recording and send you the audio files?

This. I'm sure you'd have people happy to do recordings for you, depending on what level of quality you're happy to accept.

For reference I am willing to do recordings; due to having a deep voice and English accent I may be best suited to villains. ;)

You haven't said what type of objects you want sucked into your wormholes, nor what type of objects the wormholes are. With Generic Objects and Ships you can use the AI Stack to make things move toward each other.

I'd love to help do voice recordings as well. I am a male, I don't have a very deep voice, and I am Indian (I don't have an accent, born and raised in America, but I can do a good one).

I would be willing to do voices. I am a theatre geek, and I can do some melodramatic stuff. I have a deeper voice and a Midwestern American accent. I do not, however, have a decent microphone outside of my headset...

Whatever the case, best of luck to you for your mission!