VCE files

VCE files are used in Creatures 1 and Creatures 2 to store voice lookup data for creatures. The files store both voices (a WAV filename and associated delay), and a lookup table used in the sentence-to-voice logic.

In the Creatures Evolution Engine, this data is instead contained in voices.catalogue.

Openc2e has a basic implementation.

File Format

type	description
4 bytes	voices[0].name
4 bytes	voices[0].delay_ticks
...	up through voices[31], inclusive
4 bytes	lookup_table[0][0]
...	up through lookup_table[0][26], inclusive (26 possible letters + space)
...	up through lookup_table[2], inclusive (3 letters per syllable)

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