lines

What Peary Station says over the radio, and for how long her words stand on screen.

One speaker talks in First Light: Nearside — the keeper of the greenhouse on the polar rim, calm and dry over a thin link. Each line is spoken by game.sound.voice_<id>.soundClip and the same words go to the screen as a caption, so a muted player, a noisy room, and a clip that failed to load all still get the line.

local Lines = require("game.sound.lines")

Lines.text("halfway")     --> "Halfway. I can see your dust from the rim."
Lines.seconds("halfway")  --> how long the caption should stand
Lines.has("halfway")      --> whether the id exists
Lines.ids()               --> every id, sorted
Lines.SPEAKER             --> "PEARY STATION"

seconds is the measured length of the spoken clip plus a reading pad, so a caption never leaves before the voice has finished it.

The lines