How to make custom subtitles in a mod ?
Ok, here's the story.
I'm making a single player mod based on Portal. I'm somewhere near the end of the development and I'm now trying to implement voices in it. I already managed to make the voices, the game sound manifest file, with all the Game Sounds entries, I did some VCDs with FacePoser, and everything works perfectly in-game. I even managed to do some internationalization, with french and english voices depending on your Steam account's language.
But there's a problem : there's absolutely no subtitles when the VCDs are playing. I have a closecaption_english.txt in the resource directory of the mod that looks like this :
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"lang"
{
"Language" "english"
"Tokens"
{
"mymod.level_01_welcome-1" "Here are my damn subtitles"
}
}
But it does nothing.
All I know is that the captions are found by the game, because if I delete it, I get an error in the console saying that the caption was not found for "mymod.level_01_welcome-1". I also checked that subtitles were working, and it's the case. Portal voices are dubbed, but not mines.
So... well...
If someone have an idea, feel free to share.
PS: Here is the GameSound entry :
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"mymod.level_01_welcome-1"
{
"channel" "CHAN_VOICE"
"volume" "1.0"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NONE"
"wave" "vo/speaker/level_01_welcome-1.wav"
}
And the VCD file :
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actor "Aperture_AI"
{
channel "audio"
{
event speak "mymod.level_01_welcome-1"
{
time 0.283333 4.171020
param "mymod.level_01_welcome-1"
fixedlength
cctype "cc_master"
cctoken ""
}
}
}
Hm, Ok.
Someone on Steampowered.com explained that captions must be compiled in order to be displayed in the game.
This page explains what to do : http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Closed_Captions
But unfortunately, captioncompiler.exe keeps crashing, regardless of the method I use to compile. I'm wondering if it's compatible with the Beta SDK, if not, I think it will soon become a real pain in the a** to use Hammer with the Beta SDK, then restart steam, delete the Beta, compile the captions and redownload the Beta, over and over.
i was going to offer to try to compile them for you. i just downloaded the compiler... and ran it.. and it crashed so.. nevermind 
Are you using the Beta SDK ?
Because if not, that could be a little problem..
Voica-acting is good, but when english is not your mother tongue, captions are always a plus. Damnit, I hope they'll fix this before my mod's development finishes.
Add -engine ep1 to your source SDK configuration and try again. It works with me, but Friends Network just crashed before I could tell you.
Author of Minecraft mods (MAtmos, Minaptics, NoteSlider) and Garry's Mod addons (Gunstrumental, SharpeYe, GarryWare, DepthHUD).
There we are !
The Orange Box captioncompiler.exe was released with the March 24th update of the SDK.
And it seems to work perfectly, thanks Valve.
The Orange Box captioncompiler.exe was released with the March 24th update of the SDK.
And it seems to work perfectly, thanks Valve.
WORD TO YOUR MOTHER!