Mumble
Why is it useful?
Mumble is mostly used in two situations: PvP and Classes. In PvP it is very useful because, for example, it is faster to call out a primary target than to type it, especially with PvP related lag. In classes it is great as well because we do not want our poor instructors getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from typing everything. In effect, it is just a lot easier and faster than typing.
Quick guide
- Download mumble from http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ (the stable version is running v1.2.2). On Windows, the stable version is recommended because it has a better overlay (ie. font size can be changed) and better hotkey setup. On Mac, the overlay feature does not appear to work on the stable release; try the developer snapshot.
- Install and set it up (create your own certificate, etc)
- Start the client and Server>Connect>Add New...
- Servername: Eve University
- Address: mumble.eveuniversity.org
- Port: 64738 (Default)
- Username: <Your Forum Username, i.e: Your character name with nothing either side>
- Connect (you can ignore the certificate warning - this will be fixed later).
- When prompted for your password, use your forum password!
- There is no six!
- You should automatically be dropped in the "Chat E-UNI" channel.
- Talk.
- Restart EVE client if you want overlay to work.
Setting up Mumble
Audio Tuning Wizard
When you run Mumble the first time, an Audio Tuning Wizard is presented to you. If you skip or miss it on the first run you can retake the wizard by clicking Configure > Audio Wizard. It is recommended you go through it carefully, since setting up Mumble correctly will make your and everyone else's life much easier (going through the Audio Tuning Wizard properly will also normalise everyone's voices, such that everyone will sound the same volume regardless of how they have their microphone set up). However there are two things I would like to highlight:
Push-to-talk
When you reach a screen that looks like the one above select the top radio button, click on the box on the same line and press the key you you want to use as the push-to-talk key.This is your normal push-to-talk key; for certain Fleet roles you may need more than one (see the comments in the Fleet channels), but for general E-UNI activity one is sufficient.
Text-to-speech
When you reach a screen that looks like the one above I recommend you disable the text to speech notifications.
Connecting to the Eve University Server
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Notifications
In the Setting screen Configure>Settings you can find Advanced settings checkbox in the bottom left corner. With it checked you can access the Messages settings. From there you can disable popup and sound notifications about events you don't care about.
Key Bindings for Fleetchannels
Check the channel descriptions in-game for current instructions.
Feel free to write them up here.
Overlay
Mumble provides a very handy and customizable overlay. To configure it go to Configure - Settings and pick the Overlay option
Sample settings are provided below that will put the overlay near the top left corner, fitting in one person just perfectly if you've got the left-side menu narrow (sample to the right). If more than one person talks they might overlap your Current Location info. Be sure to disable the "Always Show Self" option after you've played with where the overlay goes.
Overlay not showing up? Make sure you start Mumble before starting the Eve Online Client.
Overlay in Linux
To actually display the overlay over Eve in Linux after you've enabled it in Mumble's settings you need to have Mumble launched first and then run mumble-overlay in front of the wine command that you use to launch Eve. For example:
mumble-overlay wine explorer /desktop=Eve,1600x1200 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"
If you use a WINEPREFIX, then you would insert it after the WINEPREFIX variable like so:
WINEPREFIX=/home/username/bin/wine/wine-eve/ mumble-overlay wine explorer /desktop=Eve,3200x1180 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"
