Dunmer voices in Dunmeri???
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Dunmer voices in Dunmeri???
Some guys have been making the rest of the Dunmer language because in mostly-dunmer towns, it will be used for dialogue. Does this mean the voice acting should be in dunmeri?
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whuh? i didnt know that was true... theres gonna be towns that speak purely dunmeri? hmmm ah well, im just part of making the language, not using it
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To be excessively blunt, that's effing stupid.
Using it heavily in dialog would effectively make the dialog inaccessable to slightly over 100% of the people who play the game. Dropping a word here and there, easily understood or explained in context is fine; whole conversations in Dunmeri... would suck. Contracts or things meant to be inaccessable or obscure to the player, those would be fine.
But spoken Dunmeri sounds fine. Pun intended.
I mean, it'd be just like them to mutter things about you in a language you don't understand, especially negative things.
Using it heavily in dialog would effectively make the dialog inaccessable to slightly over 100% of the people who play the game. Dropping a word here and there, easily understood or explained in context is fine; whole conversations in Dunmeri... would suck. Contracts or things meant to be inaccessable or obscure to the player, those would be fine.
But spoken Dunmeri sounds fine. Pun intended.
I mean, it'd be just like them to mutter things about you in a language you don't understand, especially negative things.
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I do like the idea of sometimes people tryin to speak around your back if they think you dont know dunmeri, but then thered have to be a script where they dont do that if your race is dunmer, and itd just be a huge bogging global i think
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Greetings and similar, as well as general banter, would be great to have in dunmeri! If we make a little of both there will be variation like it already is in the game; people speak dunmeri in-game from time to time and I was never bothered by it, in fact, I thought it was a great touch! A spoken "exotic" language really adds to the feeling of immersion. I say go for it, record some lines and if it's just awful, we'll scrap the whole thing. Either way we have nothing to lose.
Majra as far as I know, you can just add a condition at spoken dialogue that if PCRace = Dunmer that NPCs won't say a certain line (which will be the Dunmeri sentence in this case). Although I am not entirely sure - yet it works essentialy the same as normal dialogue so it should be possible. I am not sure whether the PCRace=Dunmer is a possible condition though, so I'll have to take a look in the editor to be sure about it. But I think it should be possible without adding a huge global slowing the whole thing down.
However, in the game IF you are a Dunmer, you will also be a Dunmer who is born in a foreign land. Since native Dunmers notice this right away, they might just as well think you don't speak Dunmeri. I don't think every Dunmer that is born abroad can speak Dunmeri.
However, in the game IF you are a Dunmer, you will also be a Dunmer who is born in a foreign land. Since native Dunmers notice this right away, they might just as well think you don't speak Dunmeri. I don't think every Dunmer that is born abroad can speak Dunmeri.
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Well I am not going to pretend that I sound the least bit like a Dunmer, but I have a friend that is fairly knowledgeable with things like this and I am going to see if he can change my voice to sound more like the ones in-game, then maybe I can mutter off a few things in Dunmeri, whould be interesting plus it would be nice to have for things like the Morrowind MQ.
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dunmer thread,custom items although not all words are concrete yet, some are still being discussed
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Still needs some work but here are some quick preliminary ideas to get the wheels turning.
Itallics means in Dunmeri
You’re a cute one
(expletive word) thief!
He’s higher then a netch “Equated to very proud ex. When talking about an altmerâ€Â
Today it looks like (Dumer proverb that equates rain to something)
S’nwatha Sera
(Something) (Something) Sera “Since many non Dunmer know the word sera as a compliment this is an insult about there intelligenceâ€Â
Itallics means in Dunmeri
You’re a cute one
(expletive word) thief!
He’s higher then a netch “Equated to very proud ex. When talking about an altmerâ€Â
Today it looks like (Dumer proverb that equates rain to something)
S’nwatha Sera
(Something) (Something) Sera “Since many non Dunmer know the word sera as a compliment this is an insult about there intelligenceâ€Â
In many of shakespere's works, the word "Sirra" is the opposite of "Sir". "Sir" is used when speaking to someone of a higher social rank, and "Sirra" when speaking to someone of lower social standing. I was studying a shakespere play and that was in one of the footnotes. I thought i'd finally figured out what the dunmer were saying to me.
ex. Actor 1: "But sirra, What say you to this?"
Actor 2: "Sir I confesse the Wench."
Are you sure that the dunmer say "Sera" and not "Sirra"? After all, as an outlander they would view you as lower in the social hierarchy.
ex. Actor 1: "But sirra, What say you to this?"
Actor 2: "Sir I confesse the Wench."
Are you sure that the dunmer say "Sera" and not "Sirra"? After all, as an outlander they would view you as lower in the social hierarchy.
They say Sera for sure. Check the Voice part in the editor. And they only Say it to you when they have quite a high disposition, so I think it wouldn't make sense to be a word that implies they're talking to someone of lower social standards. It is commonly thought of a term of respect, check out the [url=http://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/old_forum/viewtopic.php?t=3912]thread on Dunmer language[/url].
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