Custom Caption Tutorial

#31

Rawr

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has anyone found a viable method yet other than the one stated in the first post? Im stuck at the caption compiler exe (it crashes too)

#32

DUSKY_

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AlfieDUSKY_Is there any way to set a limit on the number of captions shown at once?No.

Awwww. What about how long they stay up for?

[quote=Alfie][quote=DUSKY_]Is there any way to set a limit on the number of captions shown at once?[/quote]
No.[/quote]
Awwww. What about how long they stay up for?

#33

Alfie

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DUSKY_AlfieDUSKY_Is there any way to set a limit on the number of captions shown at once?No.Awwww. What about how long they stay up for?

I think cc_linger_time does this.

[quote=DUSKY_][quote=Alfie][quote=DUSKY_]Is there any way to set a limit on the number of captions shown at once?[/quote]
No.[/quote]
Awwww. What about how long they stay up for?[/quote]
I think cc_linger_time does this.

#34

Voloder

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Has SourceSDK been updated for steampipe? Because I've made captions successfully before, but now when I installed the SDK, it was installed in common/SourceSDK rather than myname/SourceSDK. And when I drag the closecaptions.txt onto captionscompiler.exe either from old resource location (manually created folders) or new one the compiler says it can't find user info and crashes. I tried moving the SourceSDK to yourname/SourceSDK, but it still didn't work. Any ideas?

#35

Spannzer

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Can't get the closecaption_english.txt file to run through captioncompiler.exe, tried everything, even mimicking the old file path. No luck :/ Any help?

#36

Alfie

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SpannzerCan't get the closecaption_english.txt file to run through captioncompiler.exe, tried everything, even mimicking the old file path. No luck :/ Any help?

make a bat file and put this in it

@echo off
title "closecaption_english compiler"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\captioncompiler.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "closecaption_english.txt"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\captioncompiler.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" -v "closecaption_english.txt" > caption.log
move "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\resource\closecaption_english.dat" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\configs\resource"
pause

You need to edit the file paths to make it work for you.
The closecaption_english.txt file you want to have compiled needs to be in tf/resource

source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=167785751

[quote=Spannzer]Can't get the closecaption_english.txt file to run through captioncompiler.exe, tried everything, even mimicking the old file path. No luck :/ Any help?[/quote]
make a bat file and put this in it
[code]@echo off
title "closecaption_english compiler"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\captioncompiler.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" "closecaption_english.txt"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\bin\captioncompiler.exe" -game "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf" -v "closecaption_english.txt" > caption.log
move "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\resource\closecaption_english.dat" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom\configs\resource"
pause[/code]

You need to edit the file paths to make it work for you.
The closecaption_english.txt file you want to have compiled needs to be in tf/resource

source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=167785751

#37

gummy

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Anyone have a link for the final version of OP's ccs?

#38

Spannzer

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Alfiesnip

Thanks!

[quote=Alfie]snip[/quote]
Thanks!

#39

brandbrand

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i finally fixed how to compile it, you no longer need the source sdk, how i did this was i put the closecaption_english file in the /common/team fortress 2/tf/resource folder, deleted the older one and the older .dat. then go to /common/team fortress 2/bin and in there is a new captioncompiler.exe. drag and drop the closecaption file onto the captioncompiler and it will add the .dat in the resource folder. There we go. Hope this helps as i had almost given up hope myself

#40

MightyMe

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obligatory

http://www.twitch.tv/mightytv/c/2058497

[b]obligatory[/b]

http://www.twitch.tv/mightytv/c/2058497

#41

clovervidia

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gummyAnyone have a link for the final version of OP's ccs?

I don't have access to OP's, but I've made my own which are based on those with better colors.

https://code.google.com/p/tf2closecaptions/wiki/Screenshots

Screenshots if interested.

[quote=gummy]Anyone have a link for the final version of OP's ccs?[/quote]
I don't have access to OP's, but I've made my own which are based on those with better colors.

[url=https://code.google.com/p/tf2closecaptions/wiki/Screenshots]https://code.google.com/p/tf2closecaptions/wiki/Screenshots[/url]

Screenshots if interested.

#42

Surrealtastic

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AlfieI managed to get mine to work, I put a copy of the old gameinfo.txt I happened to have saved in steamapps/username/team fortress 2/tf/

Here's a download to the old version: http://www.mediafire.com/?977xiav7l7vttn9

sorry for necro but did you delete the file? I'm trying to compile captions in my lang but the .dat file never generates

[quote=Alfie]I managed to get mine to work, I put a copy of the old gameinfo.txt I happened to have saved in steamapps/username/team fortress 2/tf/

Here's a download to the old version: http://www.mediafire.com/?977xiav7l7vttn9[/quote]
sorry for necro but did you delete the file? I'm trying to compile captions in my lang but the .dat file never generates