All-in-one suite for mic-only lip-syncing characters! · By
Hi! I bought Honk for Windows, love the program, planning to buy multiple copies to use it with a group of online roleplayers so they can all be pixelated lip-sync avatars of themselves in a streaming show.
The one hiccup - while upgrading my own tech for the show, I got burned on so many bad Windows machines that I finally got a Mac Studio. Which, unfortunately, Honk doesn't run on. :)
Any suggestions? Is there a reliable Windows emulator anyone's used to make Honk work on a Mac? Thanks!
I managed to get HONK working in its entirety, minus creating new characters. The trick to fix the microphone, was to upgrade to Crossover 22. Hope this is useful knowledge to some of you! I’ll be creating my characters on a Windows PC for now, but if I figure out some way to convert this batch script for macOS (if possible) or how to run it in Crossover - I will update you as well. You NEED Microsoft dotNET framework, my recommendation is to let crossover install 4.8 - won’t hurt and I didn’t pinpoint which one HONK needs plus this installed all previous versions and so it made it work :) EDIT: It doesn’t work with the internal Mic of the MacBook - I know you have a Mac Studio but just in case anyone else is stumped - use an external mic please
Okay so after trying to mess around with it, it really isn’t a good way to use HONK Mic loves to drop out still and fixing it seems like voodoo. Redoing the bottle/prefix sometimes helps sometimes doesn’t. This is Unity, it should be possible to “Export for Mac” - unless any Windows only deps are crucial for HONK to function :(
Welp…sorry to say, I didn’t even make it that far. I’m trying to use a Mac Studio for recording a shared webcam chat thing through OBS, and it just doesn’t have enough processing power to handle the webcams without heavily degrading the video quality. It didn’t happen on my last Windows machine, so the Mac is going back to the store and I’ll be going back to Honk for Windows. I appreciate your help and sorry I didn’t contribute to the Mac research! Thanks again!
it’s okay! I’m finding this isn’t too practical because Crossover keeps cutting the mic out. I guess streaming on Mac isn’t there yet, Apple Silicon only just woke up game devs so we might have to wait a while since the streaming “industry” sees it as a good low footprint option. Even OBS on OSX is poorly optimised
it would still be nice however to see a HONK port. Veadotube mini runs on M1 through Rosetta (has an x86-64 macOS build) but it’s nowhere near the level of complexity that HONK is so it’s both just for starting out and also maybe why it was so easy for it to get a port. I know some Unity but I haven’t gotten to the point of exporting for multiple platforms yet, maybe I’m just missing something.
