It’s important to point out that Nightmare Puppeteer is a game and not a 3D application. The gameplay is focused on creating characters, animations, and scenes within the game. And as M dot Strange points out “it’s an animation engine”. Also, the game is built upon the Unity Engine which means it has qualities that only a game made in Unity has (unique shaders and effects, for example). 

 

 One aspect of voice-over recording that is not apparent at first glance is that you have to go into the live recording tab in order to load pre-recorded voice clips which you can then use tab to play them in the order you choose. For example, you have a single speech by one character. Break the audio recording into logical sections then label them accordingly. Go into the live section of audio, upload each individual clip, and set their order of play. Bring up the scene and character you want to use the audio with. When you press TAB, the first audio clip (in the order you selected) will play. When you press TAB again the second audio clip will play and so on. Note that this feature is a bit buggy and doesn't always work. If that's the case just load one whole audio clip. The clip with start playing as soon as you enter the scene. If you want to start over, just hit escape and choose "reset scene media" and the scene will start over with a countdown. 

 

The advantage of this method is that you can time the animation to the audio more effectively. However, if you just want to get something created fast there's no need to break it up, just go with one clip and do your animations on the fly. 

 

 

 

There are several other audio features in NP like a midi file and a mixing panel for your sound sources, but I won't go into those for this episode. When we get into actually making a scene with music and a voice-over, I'll cover some of these features.