There have been a number of patches to TF2, since this resource was last updated
Some of the captions will not work due to an unknown reason. There seems to be a lack of effort from Valve to maintain/update the closecaptions for TF2.
The aim here is to bring the sweet goodness of closed captions to one of Valves' games. I am talking about Team Fortress 2, of course! Ever since I played the Left 4 Dead series I thought closed captions are an amazing future. Nevertheless, thanks to the Source Engine we can simple add them in.
Rossen Georgiev @rossengeorgiev
Ryan Cerniglia @ProgramZeta
txt file needs to be compiled using the caption compiler from Source SDK
Installtion is simple.
- Go to the tags section and download the latest ZIP file
- Extract the contents to
[your steam folder]\steamapps\[account name]\team fortress 2\tf\resource\ - Open TF2 and enable
closed captionsorsubtitltesfromOptions -> Audio
Thats it! :)
To compile the language file, you need the Source SDK. A more detailed information can be found here.
- First install the Source SDK
- In a command shell run
[sdkroot]\bin\captioncompiler.exe "[your steam folder]\steamapps\[account name]\team fortress 2\tf\resource\" - Test your work in-game
You are very welcome to help bring complete closed captions to Team Fortress 2.
Just fork the project and pull your changes.
Remember to have just the closecaption_[language].txt and closecaption_[language].dat in your master branch.
It is adviseable, to do all development on a seperate branch and then merge into master. This way your master branch can always be updated. While you are working on your files.
- Important note: make sure
txtfiles are encoded usingutf-16le