Utau won't recognize character text or image file

[KY0MUME]

Hi! I made an account just so I could try and resolve this issue. I'm not sure how to explain the issue but I'll try.

Usually how I load in a voicebank is by finding the voice folder and just going into the folder with any wav files and selecting it. When I try to do that with my voicebank, it shows up the C4 folder voicebank name but won't recogonize the character.txt file or image file. But it seems to be able to play sample files (even though I don't have any sample files but oh well)
When I try putting a wav file outside the C4 file and selecting that instead, the correct name I put on the character.txt file shows up under where the image is supposed to be but it says there was an unexpected error with the image file and samples won't play.

The image is a 100x100 bmp file, and the character file is set to ANSI. My region and locale is still set to Japan too and I used other voicebanks as reference so I'm not sure what's wrong. Sorry if this is dumb and any help would be appreciated!

 

[Halo]

Sample will play any files it finds if no sample is given! Additionally, as you discovered, you need to select the top level folder for VBs that contain subfolders; when there's no sample.wav yet in the top folder I usually change the filetype selection from ".wav" to "All Files" and select the character.txt (which also needs to be in the top level of the folder structure, not within a pitch)

For the subsequent issue, we'd need to see the name of your image file + your character.txt contents.

 

[KY0MUME]

Sample will play any files it finds if no sample is given! Additionally, as you discovered, you need to select the top level folder for VBs that contain subfolders; when there's no sample.wav yet in the top folder I usually change the filetype selection from ".wav" to "All Files" and select the character.txt (which also needs to be in the top level of the folder structure, not within a pitch)

For the subsequent issue, we'd need to see the name of your image file + your character.txt contents.

Thank you for replying! I didn't have any actual sample files set in place so that checks out. Here's the character.txt and image file. It's a really simple character.txt file and it wont let me send bmp files.

 

[Halo]

Hm. Does that bmp have transparency...? maybe it's a format of bmp UTAU doesn't support, maybe a different bit depth...? You could try copying in an icon from a different voicebank and try putting that one in your character text to see if it's the character txt somehow or the specific bmp. you can also use jpgs btw!

 

[KY0MUME]

Hm. Does that bmp have transparency...? maybe it's a format of bmp UTAU doesn't support, maybe a different bit depth...? You could try copying in an icon from a different voicebank and try putting that one in your character text to see if it's the character txt somehow or the specific bmp. you can also use jpgs btw!

looks like it works with other bmp files. I guess there's just something wrong with my image file? I'll fix it.
Thanks for your help! ^^

 

[.Anon...]

looks like it works with other bmp files. I guess there's just something wrong with my image file? I'll fix it.
Thanks for your help! ^^

soooo just asking, did you fix it? and if you did, how did you do that? im too dumb to do so update i fixed it so nvm but bc of this post i finally know how to do this so thanks