Talking heads

[sovereign]

The heads in the comm windows aren't just animations. Those are 3d models of heads ... You would need to create an NPC head then assign it to those scenes. I'm not sure where exactly the NPCs for mission officers are defined, but I'm pretty sure we would be able to change this.

Just retexturing an existing head might work well enough, if you find a head that fits the person enough.
If anyone wants to try it, I can send you screenshots of all the heads in FL, others know how to retexture this stuff.

Edit: I think I found where the folks saying this are defined for all the factions. They could be easily changed to factionalised NPCs with a bit of work.

As far as I'm aware, the "mission commander" is a universal person with no difference for factions. Without source code, I don't believe we can factionalize him, even if we can change his voice/make him a girl/robot/ape.


About the "This is Alpha 5 out of...... heading to......." even on the vanilla ones it's abrupt and weird sounding, so it wouldn't be that bad if we just added links for the new areas. It would, however, possibly skyrocket the mod size- you need several pronunciations of each new field, base, faction, etc...

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