Make Visual Novels! Smart Voice Barks for Ren'Py!

So you've been hearing about how all of the best visual novels have great voice acting, but you're not quite ready to do full voice acting and make use of Ren'Py's auto voicing features.  If you're planning on adding partial voice acting to your visual novel, the Make Visual Novels! Smart Voice Barks for Ren'Py is for you!

Sorry, I need a second, my dogs are barking!

The Make Visual Novels! Smart Voice Barks for Ren'Py greatly simplifies adding partial voice acting to your visual novel.  Adding partial voice acting without it would require you to add lots of  voice commands to your scripts, hack apart the existing auto voicing, or implement your own system to handle the load.  But the Make Visual Novels! Smart Voice Barks system allows you to map your characters and their key words and phrases to voice files

Instructions

Download the RPY files from here and drop them in your visual novel's main folder next to your other scripts.  Then, open MVNSmartBarks.RPY and follow the instructions inside to set up your own characters and voice lines!

1.  Go find your options.rpy and make sure you have config.has_voice set to true.  By default it's set to False.  Without it, voice won't work period!
2. Next, all your characters need to be defined as characters with voice tags.  These are tools that'll help us later!
3. Populate the included tables with your character names.  (Your character keys!)
4. Assign keywords you want to trigger certain voice files below for each Character Key.  (Your phrase keys!)
5.  Assign any number of voice files to each Phrase Key, inside of [], each seperated by a comma and surrounded by quotes. (Your Voice Values!)
6. Refer to the instructions inside of MVNSmartBarks.RPY for more information!

For the accompanying voice pack:

Download the .OGG voice files, if you'd like to use the 3 included sets of partial voice acting, and place them in the voice directory under your visual novel's main folder!

What's in it?

1. MVNSmartBarks.RPY: Where the magic happens!  Here you assign your characters their special keywords and phrases and match them to the voice files you want to play.
2. MVNSB.RPY: Where the magic actually happens-- We just told you that the magic happens in the last one so you wouldn't go in here and accidentally change something that breaks everything.
3. MVN Barks.zip: A total of 30 pre-made bark lines from 3 of our voice actors that you're welcome to use in your visual novel projects.
4. I might have left some of my hopes and dreams in there.  Let me know if you find them, okay? I need those back.

What makes it awesome?

1. You can pet the dog. (But you'll have to make him, implement him, and then make a petting minigame.  We can't do everything for you!)
2. You never have to add a voice command to your Ren'Py scripts again! Though you still can if you need to.
3. You can use it for more than just voice lines!  A clever visual novelist could use it to cue sound effects to a given keywords, like 'Intruder Alert' triggering an alarm sound effect.
4. If you assign  multiple voice lines to keywords or phrases, it will randomly play one of them when called upon.  This gives your players a more dynamic experience!
5. You add as many phrases, voice files, or characters to the bark map as you have!  The system is efficient, fast, and light weight!-- At least we hope it is. We never heard back from the play tester.
6.  The last one was a joke.  We did test it!  (Though if you hear from our play tester please let us know, their family is very worried.)

We're holding this asset pack ransom.  That's right, we have your dog. You thought we were going to ask you to donate?  Not this time.  

When the Make Visual Novels! Smart Voice Barks for Ren'Py receives $200 in purchases, it'll be made free for everyone.  Our community believes in paying people for their work and contributions.  This pack was paid for by the DevTalk community, including paying the voice actors for their recordings and time.  

By paying for this pack, you're giving back to the DevTalk community and helping it build bigger, better, and way crazier stuff.  You like crazy stuff, don't you?