Commentary Problems

[Groxkiller585]

Hi all, I've been trying to get commentary to function in both a mod and custom map. Both times it works, but the problem is it doesn't have subtitles, even though I included "synopsis" in the commentary file. Followed the VDC tut.

Here's the map's commentary txt file:

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"Entities"
{
   "entity"
   {
      "classname" "point_commentary_node"
      "targetname" "PTROA_comment_01"
      "origin" "-15 -15 30"
      "angles" "0 90 0"
      "precommands" ""
      "postcommands" ""
      "commentaryfile" "#commentary\testcomment.wav"
      "printname" "PTROA_comment_01"
      "viewtarget" ""
      "viewposition" ""
      "prevent_movement" 0
      "speakers" "Groxkiller585"
      "synopsis" "This is a test comment. If you can hear this then it is working."
                "parser_id" "1"
   }
}

Am I missing something? Also, when I try to add commentary via the commentary editor (-tools), I can't because it won't let me add new ones. (the option is always dark)

[Au-heppa]

You need to add the subtitles to your your modnamehere_english.txt in the resource folder. You just add it there like:

"#commentary\testcomment.wav" "Blah blah blah"

You need to run the .txt through captioncompiler.exe to get the subtitles work. It will create a modnamehere_english.dat. I am not sure what the synopsis used for, though.

[Groxkiller585]

You need to add the subtitles to your your modnamehere_english.txt in the resource folder. You just add it there like:

"#commentary\testcomment.wav" "Blah blah blah"

You need to run the .txt through captioncompiler.exe to get the subtitles work. It will create a modnamehere_english.dat. I am not sure what the synopsis used for, though.

That did not work, filepaths are correct. I tried closedcaption_english.txt as well but captioncompiler refuses to compile it.

[Au-heppa]

which captioncompiler.exe did you try? If you were, for example, trying to use the orangebox one, try the source2007 one instead, or vise versa.

[Groxkiller585]

which captioncompiler.exe did you try? If you were, for example, trying to use the orangebox one, try the source2007 one instead, or vise versa.

Orangebox. I know it works because it works for modname_english but for some reason modname_english is not read.