LHTS in the Editor

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yeccman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:41:18 GMT

Anybody going to tell us the release date soon????? I'm getting VERY anxious!!!!

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twonjosh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:50:04 GMT

I think I want to be the engineer laughing after finding that in the string table.

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kamino92 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:14:10 GMT

i find this very intresting, keep em comming

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stomp224 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:26:41 GMT

Wow. Completely over my head, but great stuff nonetheless! And you use this system for triggering speech/sound? Maybe I should learn some of this "programmery" stuff!

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Mortalitis_Infinitas — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:16:13 GMT

Very interesting. I imagine this system is extremely useful when it comes to subtitles and various language translations.

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bops235 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:30:26 GMT

Hahaha, the censored part made my day

Yeah like yeccman said, could yu atleast tell us WHEN we'll find out what the release date is?

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Myrshire — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:32:59 GMT

I think the LHTS sounds very useful, even though i didnt really catch any of that it sounds um... =P
And ya, bout that release date, anything yet? Im dying here

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Derobrash — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:03:35 GMT

Ahahaah, I'm saying nothing.

(Except they're not warts, they're prefixes! And they're brilliant!)

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wrongfire — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:19:52 GMT

Wow your editor has everything!
I wonder who that person is...

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BayStone — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:05:24 GMT

Coolness! Keep 'em coming.

Couple of interesting things in there... factions, gossip, mood effects, etc.

"Wow if anyone reverse engineers the... " how does that end?

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DerDancer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:47:45 GMT

Look at the sreenshot there stand :TEXT_QUEST_QC010_ROSE_WISH_SEQUENCE_10
Did this mean that your 10. quest is about Rose from fable 1 ?

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troydominice — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:19:33 GMT

When it comes to progleming edtor systems, animations, speech, scripts ect I have a better chance of making Fable 2 pop out of thin air..

I think we should start betting on when it coming out, I theink it will be between the 6th month to the 8th month of this year.

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Greg453 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:37:04 GMT

I may missed it but ... what dose the LHTS actually do? What is it for? Can I write texts with it?

And why do you call it 'LHTS' but in the pic its call 'Lhts'?

Greg the Mad

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Derobrash — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:45:01 GMT

It's the string database for the game, so it knows what text to display for various things etc, and means the whole thing is easily localizable for different regions.

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paulecoyote — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:56:21 GMT

Greg, the Text System looks after the various bits of text that appear in the game.

What has been said, sub titles, etc. As for LHTS versus Lhts? Well I think Lhts looks better then having a ton of caps shouting at you from the menu bar. :-P

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Greg453 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:57:02 GMT

So its like a MS Exel table holding all the text that gets displayed and also all the VoiceOver files, so that the localization team more or less only have to work its self down from the first line to the last?

... I've seen a article about localization ^.^ . Thanks for the intel Derobrash.

... If you're alread here answering questions, ... why did you got access to the FableEdit?

Greg the Mad

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Rapture_Tourist — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:08:26 GMT

I wonder how far MS is with the localization anyway... and I eager to know what was censored

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Glen Watts1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:37:31 GMT

The LHTS is a lot more than just something that holds the text these days. You can group things together so the code can say 'get me a random line of this type'. It holds the relationship between the text and the recorded line, and allows you to tag gestures to parts of the text (so you can make Rose there gesture with her arm as she says the line 'I wish...'). Lip syncing goes in there too.

And on top of all that, you can also track whether a line has been placeholdered or is at final recording, and if a particular change has been 'approved' or not.

Compated to game text databases I've worked with on past projects, this thing is a marvel. We used it in an earlier form on BW2 and The Movies, but it's moved on a lot since then.

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Derobrash — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:59:30 GMT

I miss you Glen :x

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guitarscout — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:46:16 GMT

Way over my head. But interesting...

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php_penguin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:36:12 GMT

Cool stuff!

The censored bit is bugging me though... things it could be:
- captions (ie subtitles?)
- characters
- crackwhores
- creatures
- challenges
- competitions
- bum fun (fun with hobos .. not the other kind)
- countryside

thats enough random stabs in the dark for now...

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icekold213 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:03:37 GMT

There's 2 reasons why that is censored.

1- It says a cuss word.

2(more likely)- It contains a secret that they don't want us to know about.

Cats! You can get a kitty instead of a dog. Mystery solved!

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corbett656 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:33:13 GMT

its probably a whorehouse or some sort of secret building that we cant know about because its a tag under building so it has to be some sort of building

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Derobrash — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:56:42 GMT

It's not a tag under building, it's a root node.

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moonfever — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:57:41 GMT

I'm very interested about what you say.I hope the dialoge includes a lot of being
the Hero, please. Especially the lady since I am one.

thanks