Custom Radio Announcer?

[ManehattanProject]

So as part of GoE, we actually already have someone slated for the position of voice actor in the vein of ThreeDog.

 

There are dozens of guides on how to make a radio station, so that's not what I'm asking. What I'm wondering if how I go about having an interactive radio announcer, namely one that comments on the player's actions throughout the storyline of GoE, just like Three Dog (and I think Mr. New Vegas does...honestly, I rarely listen to that station).

 

In addition to this, how does one attach the "song announcement" to a particular song? It is as simple as linking a piece of dialogue to a specific song, or is there something special...or even simpler? (add the voice recording to the beginning/end of the song itself).

 

Finally, I remember that whenever I entered my Megaton home and I had the radio playing, Three Dog would always be on a news segment (at least as far as I can remember). In fact, usually when I turned on the radio even on the PipBoy, it usually started with a news segment unless you've been flipping channels or listened to it recently. Anyone have some experience on how that's handled?

 

Thanks folks. I appreciate the help, as always. :)

 

-NI

[Belthan]

In the RadioGalaxyNews quest object, look at the Radio tab. The dummy topic RadioGNRPlayerEploitsRELAY has a bunch of random infos, each of which is conditional on quest stages or other things that indicate a player has completed a task, and some quest variables that keep track of which ones Three Dog has already mentioned on the air. For an (imperfect) example, you can look at Quo Vagis - Three Dog comments on Lolipopz if the player gives him help wanted posters, which sounds close to what you're trying to do. I say "imperfect", because I did it by adding a topic to the vanilla quest (at the risk of conflicting with other mods). I should have added an info to the same topic in one of my own quest objects instead, but I recall having difficulty making it work that way. don't remember why.

 

The whole news/PSA/song intro/song sequencing is handled by "link to" topics in each section (e.g. the RadioGNRPlayerKarmaTitles topics link to RadioGNRPlayerEploitsRELAY. When one of those infos is selected at random, it has a link to the info with the actual voice file for that exploit. That info links to RadioGNRNewsPost, which randomly selects a PSA or song intro, and so on.