[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

7 hours ago, snatcher said:

Here is an updated version of "Outlined Yellow" based in your latest code.

So i.m.o. yellow reads better than white, but I think it's too strong. I think a color between yellow and white would be better, so I guess a lighter yellow.

[New version of DR crashing on startup]

On 1/6/2024 at 10:56 PM, demagogue said:

so I'm getting the message that it's not worth building on my little travel laptop

It has Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU with 16gb ram? Should be powerful enough I think..

[Can DR be used with engines like Godot?]

55 minutes ago, OrbWeaver said:

Your game will need to define a hierarchy of 3D models in ASE or LWO format. No other formats will show up in the model selector. These models can be stored directly on disk (there is no "model shader" tree required like with materials).

I read @greebo stated obj is also possible, but it has to be specified in a config file..

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

8 hours ago, nbohr1more said:

That said, I think the background still helps reduce the visual noise

Would it be possible instead of using darkening to apply blur to the background of subtitles? Just a hunch.

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

2 hours ago, stgatilov said:

added background field to location ring

I think this doesn't looks very nice. I think it's best to make the background the same width as the subtitle block. What do others think?

 

Are we going for the background look, or are we going for the black outline? It's not clear to me what the current direction is, but the outline looks nicer and it seems a waste to try to implement something that doesn't get chosen anyway.

[v-sync doesn't work anymore]

Ok, yeah I guess I can make a profile for TDM.

Anyway, I thought v-sync would be smart, but it seems making the framerate go high, makes everything much smoother, so I don't really understand why one needs v-sync.

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

2 hours ago, snatcher said:

The above solution doesn't solve a thing and I cannot think of anything other than having the source code deliver a copy of the subtitles stripped from color escape characters.

It does make it less fat. You can see this in the screenshot I posted. So saying it does nothing is simply not true.

2 hours ago, snatcher said:

In any case, imagine for a second you are watching a TV series and each episode comes with subs in different colors...

It has it's uses, but I'm not sure how important it is. Also, the color options seem a bit too basic.

[Vertical Contest Mission: Somewhere Above the City by Grayman (Aug 20, 2010)]

Pretty nice mission overall. A bit linear maybe. It's also quite clear I think that this is grayman's first mission. Or maybe it's just a very old mission. I thought the end cutscene is especially really nice.

[Vertical Contest Mission: Somewhere Above the City by Grayman (Aug 20, 2010)]

Here The subtitles for this fm. Made with help of Whisper. All the subtitles for voices are there and fully tested. 2 conversations:

1. Some drunk thug talking to himself (start of mission).
2. A Builder guard and a Builder bishop having a conversation (end of mission).

I made changes to 2 srt files (everything is srt, no inline), the rest was already correct.

Edit: subtitles added to mission.

 

[How can I create an account on the TDM wiki?]

These are usually only given to users that are more active on the forum, so we kind of know what to expect.. (I could be wrong).

What do you want to add/change?

[Vertical Contest Mission: Somewhere Above the City by Grayman (Aug 20, 2010)]

I recommend to edit the darkmod.txt file and change:

Title: Somewhere Above the City 1.1
Description: Retrieve a stolen Builder artifact.
Author: by grayman
Required TDM Version: 1.02

To:

Title: Somewhere Above the City
Description: Retrieve a stolen Builder artifact.
Author: by grayman
Version: 1.1
Required TDM Version: 1.02

 

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

So I encountered this weird thing. In fm The black Mage in the ingame-cutscene right after the intro-video the financial adviser (guy in red) doesn't have a position icon above all their subtitles:

Spoiler

The black mage does:

Spoiler

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

15 minutes ago, snatcher said:

Can you share a subtitle file with mixed regular, bold, italic, colors... such as the above example so that I can see what you can see in my PC? The ugliest the subs the merrier

You can only set colors afaik.

subs_braeden_church_color_disco.pk4

[v-sync doesn't work anymore]

There's no such setting in Linux driver:

[v-sync doesn't work anymore]

Since upgrading my gpu to an nVidia RTX 3060, I can only set v-sync via driver setting Sync to Vblank. At least I thought that's what that setting does. Enabling V-sync in TDM does nothing.

I use Manjaro Linux xfce

Both TDM 2.11 and 2.12

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

Some test:

Spoiler

Changed the textalignx and textaligny from 0.5 and -0.5 to 0.3 and -0.3

 

z_Subs_212_NoBG_White_vdatiswous030.pk4

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

On 1/5/2024 at 6:30 PM, Geep said:

BTW, it is possible to markup particular words in the subtitle with a primary color, for emphasis. @datiswous, you asked about this a while ago. Did you actually apply it to any game FM?

The 2 obvious colors for emphasis are red and yellow. A yellow emphasis would be lost if all the text was yellow.

Colored text shows normally like this:

 

But with Snatcher's subtitle look the colored subtitles look now extremely bolted:

I guess this does make it more useful for emphasis, but a little less bolting would be better.

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

On 1/5/2024 at 5:54 AM, nbohr1more said:

Try it out

I tried it. I don't get this behavior what @snatcher has (maybe performance related?), but the background is misaligned somehow:

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

For testing purposes, here is the list of fm's with (story) subtitles (in case you didn't know):

Braeden Church is probably best, because it has a conversation right after loading and the loading is fast (small mission). There is a bright area left of the conversation scene.

[New version of DR crashing on startup]

The newest version currently is 3.8.0. You could try previous versions (on Windows): https://www.darkradiant.net/download.html to see at which version you get the crash and to not miss too many features with your prehistorical old version 2.8.

You can download a portable version of each, although the settings are shared, so it's not really portable.

[Prey 2017 why wobbly legs? [and general comments]]

1 hour ago, revelator said:

i allways been more of a diablo fan myself all the way from diablo 1 to diablo 4

Have you tried Grim Dawn?

There's even a very good mod that recreates Diablo 2 called Reign of terror.

 

[Fan Mission: Cleighmoor (by grayman) (2014/3/1)]

I made Subtitle files with help of Whisper.

This uses only srt files. No inline subs.

Edit: subtitles added to mission.

 

[Newbie DarkRadiant Questions]

On 1/4/2024 at 12:58 PM, grodenglaive said:

lights/biground1
{	
	description "Round point light."
	{
		forceHighQuality
		map	lights/biground1.tga
		colored
		zeroClamp
	}
	ai_see 0
}

Why is there a second bracket at all?

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

On 1/4/2024 at 11:13 PM, snatcher said:

Forget about this for the moment. Just leave the widget outside of any backgrounds (if you aren't sure how to create a dedicated background for it).

I think it looks much better when included in the subtitle background block.

[Subtitles - Possibilities Beyond 2.11]

4 hours ago, Geep said:

BTW, it is possible to markup particular words in the subtitle with a primary color, for emphasis. @datiswous, you asked about this a while ago. Did you actually apply it to any game FM?

The 2 obvious colors for emphasis are red and yellow. A yellow emphasis would be lost if all the text was yellow.

No I didn't. Why yellow btw? I think yellow is relatively close to white, so I would rather go for red and blue or green I think.

But thanks for the reminder. Interesting to check this out.

 

2 hours ago, snatcher said:

You must settle on something that is ready to be shipped and "submit" it to @stgatilov for review and approval asap. The next build might be around the corner and it may very well be your last chance.

Let's not rush things..