Verity JE Extra

v1.0.0-beta.5 - the_multiplayer_support_update

Host Mode. Playing with friends used to mean everyone's game generated Verity's line separately, so one sentence was paid for once per player and came back sounding a little different for each of them. Turn on Host Mode and the person hosting the world generates it once and streams the audio live to everyone else, so it costs a single request, everyone hears the same take, and it arrives at essentially the same moment for everyone.

• Find it under Multiplayer in the Verity JE Extra tab. Turn it on only on the machine hosting the world, and keep Override Cloud Voice on, since that is what produces the audio.
• Members do not need to set anything up. The host also shares its endpoint, model and voice.
• Your API key is never sent to anyone. Only the host ever contacts the provider.
• Friends without this addon are unaffected and keep working as before.

Talk To Verity In Hand. Chatting normally does nothing while Verity is packed away rather than spawned in the world. Turn this on and it works whenever his box is in either hand: the item selected in your hotbar, or your off hand. The conversation is private: nobody else can trigger a reply from your boxed Verity, and nobody else sees the reply or hears him speak.

Muffle Verity In Inventory. A second toggle, only active once the one above is on, that lets you talk to him when he is packed away somewhere in your inventory or hotbar too, not held in either hand, with his voice muffled through this addon's own Chat and Cloud Voice audio to match. Only affects audio this addon generates itself; his own native voice has no equivalent hook to muffle it with. Updates live mid-sentence too — move the box in or out of your hand while he's still talking and it changes how he sounds right away.

Pick him up while he's talking. Verity used to refuse this outright with an error and a sound. Now picking him up just works, and he keeps talking normally once he's in your hand.

Fixed since first written: the host's own connection could get dropped mid-line and close the world for everyone (an audio packet was registered wrong internally); talking to Verity in hand produced text with no voice and no talking animation (an internal redirect had a syntax mistake and silently never applied); joining a world with Verity already packed away from an earlier session showed a raw internal error as his reply instead of a real answer, since there was no entity to answer with yet — that now gets a short in-character line asking to be let out at least once first, instead; and a member could see Verity's text but never hear him under Host Mode when the world was shared through Essential's Shared Party/Server specifically, since that kind of peer-to-peer relay silently drops messages above a size a direct connection would carry without issue. Audio slices are now a quarter of their previous size to fit comfortably under that. All confirmed fixed from actual play sessions, not just re-checked in the code. Host Mode takes effect when players next join; everyone needs the same version installed, since a mismatch is exactly what could reintroduce a "sees text but not TTS" problem again. Best suited to worlds hosted from your own game, such as through e4mc or Essential.

Requires: Verity 6 through the 6.0.0-beta releases, YACL 3.6+

Beta release — please report anything odd!