Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · June 15, 2011, 6:28 pm

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?

#2 · June 15, 2011, 7:06 pm

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.

#3 · June 15, 2011, 7:54 pm

Thanks. Sorry, I did exactly that, but I typed in "subtitle" instead of "subtitles." As you can see, that makes a big difference, heh.

#4 · June 15, 2011, 9:34 pm

Also, Ambient Generics stop when you pause the game in Portal 2

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#5 · October 29, 2011, 5:45 am

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.

#6 · October 30, 2011, 1:47 am

Ahem:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... _(Portal_2)

I believe this will cover it for portal 2.

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#7 · October 30, 2011, 5:09 am

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.

I think in terms of boolean variables. Generally, it makes things easier.

#8 · October 30, 2011, 5:32 am

I can't tell how serious you're being, so I'll mention that chickenmobile meant to link to this page:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... _(Portal_2)

#9 · October 30, 2011, 8:35 am

Rubrica wrote:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Subtitles_(Portal_2)

It misses out on the bracket too... strange.

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#10 · October 30, 2011, 12:03 pm

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

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Adding voices with subtitles