 | Some of you might remember my post about the real-time translator overlay I made for playing on JP servers. Well, u/Sanzpromy left a comment asking about a karaoke mod and honestly I couldn't get the idea out of my head. So I built it. It's an ACT overlay that detects boss fight music triggers (like Shiva casting Diamond Dust) and displays the song lyrics karaoke-styl, word by word highlighting, timed to the actual music. Same transparent overlay approach as the translator, sits on top of the game, doesn't interfere with anything. This time I went way harder on the vibecoding. The translator was mostly hand-written but for this one I leaned heavily into AI-assisted development, the whole sync pipeline, the timing detection (hardest thing about this project), the display engine. It was a fun experiment in how far you can push that workflow. For now only Oblivion (Shiva's theme) is fully timed with the boss actions I want to add more songs (Leviathan, Titan, Moggle Mog, and eventually HW/SB/ShB/EW trials) but the bottleneck is timing the lyrics to each song. It's surprisingly hard to automate, and I couldn't find any resources online... If anyone knows somewhere I can find lyrics timings for the songs, I'd really appreciate it. Planning to release the tool soon once I have a few more songs done (ARR at least). Also as I haven't even finished ARR testing is a paaaaaaaaain I have to queue each time ahah Thanks to u/Sanzpromy for planting the idea. Sometimes a random comment is all it takes. submitted by /u/Nice-String6667 [link] [comments] |
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