Updated Closed Captions Mod Release

General Development Black Mesa
#1

I’m taking the plunge and giving something to the BM community, from which I’ve taken so much from.

I’ve initiated a project that focuses on finding and correcting the numerous dialog/subtitle caption errors that presently exist in BM. There are dozens of instances where the dialog that is spoken by the character in audio form is not accurately reflected in the subtitle caption that is displayed at the bottom of the screen in written form. Hopefully, this mod will deepen, however slightly, the immersion factor in BM.

More importantly, this project is especially beneficial to those individuals that are hearing impaired. In some circumstances, subtiltles are the only means by which they can understand what’s transpiring in the game, assists them in determining the tasks that need to be accomplished in order to progress the game further, and helps them in more fully understanding and appreciating the gameplay and storyline.

I’m just doing my little part in honing, polishing and improving BM to be as bug-free as it can possibly be. It’s a very painstaking process, but one that I feel needs to be done.

There is a detailed “ReadMe” in the zip file. Please thoroughly read it.

I’ll endeavor to keep searching for additional errors and correct them as they are discovered, but this is a daunting task. After installing this mod, if you discover any additional errors, please report them here in this BM forum. Please provide me with as much info as possible so that I can easily zero in on the corrections that need to be applied. Typically, I require the game level/chapter, the character speaking (Barney, scientist, other) and as much of the spoken audio dialog as you can take note of. Once a sufficient number of new corrections are made, I’ll release an updated version of the mod.

Thank you in advance for your invaluable contributions to this project.

Happy gaming everyone!
Dadster

Ps: A special shout out and thanks to forum contributor [COLOR=‘Lime’]kyyrma, who helped with some questions I had concerning some of the mechanics involved.
Closed Captions Update v1.0.zip (82.7 KB)

#2

Bless you.

#3

wow, thanks a lot, some of the Translation groups have already mentioned and worked on this, but I think nobody has gone through all the missing captions, that will make the Translation process for the missing lines a lot easier! (well, most are already done, but who knows, maybe the devs may add/alter a little with the steam release, we haven’t the updated closed caps, so going on translating makes no sense right now…)

#4

Dadster, here’s something for you:

BMCCpatch-v1.00f - 558.1 KB, for fixing text bugs the translation community found so far. Installer patches some BM maps to display subtitles on inbound train and Vox system voices. Fully and automatically uninstallable.

I’ll try to compare this with your text version and merge them to get the best possible text.

#5

Wow, thank you so very much. That’s very kind of you. Do you guys have a website?

If I install v1.00f, it will overwrite my existing corrected closecaption_english.txt file, based on my changes, right? That means I would lose all my corrections.

If so, I’d rather wait until you amalgamate my file with v1.00f. Any idea when that might be done?

Once again, deepest thanks!

#6

If you can, replace every instance of “Vortigaunt” with “Alien Slave” in the subtitles.

#7

Hi Cacao! Can you please explain the reasoning for this. Why should it be changed this way?

#8

In original half-life you didn’t know the name of their species and ‘Alien Slave’ was the name you saw in the subtitles.

#9

My 2 cents: Now we all know that Vortigaunt is the name of the species, and alien slave is only the codename of the NPC_create list.
IMHO we should keep the Vortigaunt name because it is the wide known name.

#10

Why not just npc_vortigaunt?

#11

They are not referred to as “Vortigaunts” at ANY point in the Half-Life 1 arc.

#12

Yeah, but – correct me if I’m wrong – we’re talking about the captions, not about the character dialogues itself. Instances like “<Vortigaunt: Death>”, “<Vortigaunt: Attack>”, or things like that. So, for me there is no point to modify all those instances just because they are not referred by their name in the HL1 arc (and I don’t remember any of them being called as “Alien Slaves” in any point of HL1 either).

#13

Like there were subtitles.

#14

It’s the small things like this that I appreciate the most as I notice them more than others, and it always irritated me that they were largely incorrect. Much appreciated for taking the time to do this for us. However, it doesn’t seem to work for me for some reason. I read the readme and did exactly as it said, but I simply don’t get anything on screen for captions. I’ve tried full captions, and only dialog, but neither do a thing for me. I backed up the old ones, so it’s no big deal, but any thoughts would be appreciated.

#15

Could you try to make a version that is compatible with Surface Tension Uncut? It comes with its own closed caption files.

Thank you

#16

Yes please, I want that too!

#17

Can someone make it work with Surface Tension Uncut? Please!

#18

I can do that. In fact, I’ve been working on updating Dadster’s Close Captions Mod. I’ll release it when it’s ready.

Edit: There will be 2 versions of it. One with Surface Tension Uncut captions and one with both ST Uncut and Uplink captions.

#19

Hi everyone. I’m still working on the 2 versions of the Closed Captions Update v1.1. Will make a new thread of this when I’ve finished working on the captions.

Update: Almost done! Will release it as soon as I’m done with the Lambda Core chapter of Black Mesa.

Last update: The new update has been released! Please go to this link to download the new update: https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=16475

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