How do you find the sentence time of hgrunt sentences? Created 4 months ago2023-12-11 20:29:04 UTC by tree

I was going to use a hgrunt sentence for a scripted_sentence, but I don't know what to put for the sentence time since the hgrunt sentences aren't singular voicelines.

Any help would be appreciated.

Better to guess high in that case. Check the sentence in sentences.txt and try to imagine the words being spoken in-game. For instance, sounding out the following line while watching the clock, I'd guess around three and a half seconds, rounded up to four.

HG_QUEST11 hgrunt/clik (t30) squad, stay(e80) alert(e80) four freeman, over clik

One thing to remember at the end of the day, it's never going to be perfect (nor does it need to be) because different localisations use totally different formats. While the grunts and VOX system use single words in the English version, strung together in sentences.txt, other languages have standard lines. See the linked video below.

Check the VOX examples here.

This is a jank workaround, but you can use https://mfaizsyahmi.github.io/sentences.101/ to prototype, listen, and most relevant to the question, download rendered sentences, where you can then look at the audio length to pretty accurately* estimate the sentence length.

*because implementations vary between goldsrc and this site it won't be 100% but close enough.