Adding voices with subtitles
23 Posts
Posted Jun 15, 2011
Hi, first post, lurked for a decent amount of time though. I'm working on a portal 2 mod with a character who speaks through a PA, just like GLaDOS or Cave Johnson. I'm wondering what would be the best way to do this, how was it done in Portal: Prelude?
I know I can do it as an ambient generic, but doesn't that also keep sounding playing when the game is paused?
And how would I go about adding subtitles to the game?
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Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Go to the Valve Developer Wiki, which you should always go to first when you have a mapping question, type in "subtitles" and hit search. This quickly leads you to http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Closed_Captions which conveniently answers all of your questions.
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Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Thanks. Sorry, I did exactly that, but I typed in "subtitle" instead of "subtitles." As you can see, that makes a big difference, heh.
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Posted Jun 15, 2011
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Also, Ambient Generics stop when you pause the game in Portal 2
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Posted Oct 29, 2011
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there is a file captions_english.txt in there but it only seems to contain captions for effects, the subtitles are somewhere else and I have yet to find it. Would be cool to be able to add subtitles to my mod.
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
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Ahem:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... _(Portal_2
I believe this will cover it for portal 2.
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
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chickenmobile wrote:
Ahem:http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... _(Portal_2
I believe this will cover it for portal 2.
Looks like they gave up before even putting in the closing bracket on the title. Such determination.
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
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I can't tell how serious you're being, so I'll mention that chickenmobile meant to link to this page:
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
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Rubrica wrote:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Subtitles_(Portal_2)
It misses out on the bracket too... strange.
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
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I did this. And believe me, its a mess. I remember I had to manually config captoncompiler, make a new subtitles english folder, then backup the scenes.image. If you don't back up subtitles_english/scenes.image, your game will break, and GLaDOS/Cave, will no longer work