Starfield Silent Voice Mod

Starfield Silent Voice

No pithy name this time!

version 1.5

Requires Starfield Script Extender and Address Library

Description

This SFSE plugin enhances support for unvoiced in-game dialog. Third party mods that add new NPCs and quests often do not come with their own voice acting. The engine has a limitation that causes unvoiced dialogue to zoom by in-game, making them nigh impossible to read. To workaround this issue, mod authors are required to bundle ‘silent voice files’ – voice assets that are essentially empty – with their mods. This, unfortunately, increases the overall size of the mod package.

Starfield Silent Voice addresses this issue by forcing the game to use a single set of silent voice files for any unvoiced dialogue the game might encounter, thereby relieving the mod author the arduous task of generating and bundling individual voice files. Subtitles are automatically displayed for unvoiced responses.

Just pop it in, enable loose file loading (applies to Starfield as well) and run the game through the SFSE launcher. The plugin's configuration options can be modified in the bundled TOML file.

PS: Since there are no quest mods to speak of now, all this plugin does at the moment is make every male character in the game speak the Adoring Fan's lines and every female character speak random nonsense. You can turn off this feature in the bundled TOML file by setting use_voice_randomizer to false.

Compatibility

Compatible with all versions supported by the Address Library.

Credits

Special thanks to :

1. The SFSE team - For the script extender and stalwart support of Bethesda modding.
2. The CommonLibSF contributors - For supporting an open reverse-engineering ecosystem for Starfield.
3. Dropkicker - For his plugin template and help with CMake woes.

Change Log

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1.5 - Add support for runtime 1.14.70.0

1.4 – Add support for runtime 1.12.36.0, fix ignored config option to skip empty responses, fix incorrectly clamped config values, add config option to force silent voice, add working silent voice/lip sync assets

1.3.1 - Correctly handle non-NPC actors

1.3 - Add support for 1.8.88.0

1.2 - Switch to Address Library

1.1 – Fix a bug that broke facial animations of female NPCs

1.0 – Initial release