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 :

"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 :

"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 :

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 ""
      }
   }
}

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.

NykO18 wrote:

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

rellikpd wrote:
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.

NykO18 wrote:
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.

WORD TO YOUR MOTHER!