Talk:Closed Captions

One of my favourite benchmarks for when to add stuff to the VDC is when I look for info and don't find any. Case in point: I just spent the entire evening wrestling with why my closed caption edits had stopped working. Did I need to use scene_flush? Did I need to restart Source and/or Steam after editing the file? Did I need to make sure I had the right spaces and carriage returns? Eventually I discovered that it was because I had stopped editing the file with Notepad and had started using Textpad instead. Simple mistake, a lot of time wasted. :)

I'm not much of a programmer, so I'm not really familiar enough with the various different ways of encoding text files (ASCII/binary/unicode/etc) to know what Textpad was doing to them that Notepad didn't. Perhaps someone with more know-how can find out and make my Note more precise?

Anyway, this week looks likely to be Learn Closed Captions Week for me, so I'll probably be back a few times to flesh out this page with a few more discoveries. --Giles 13:32, 15 May 2006 (PDT)

i've been trying to get the closed captions to work in a mod that's based off of the source sdk base... have tried using notepad, wordpad, textpad, MSdev 2005... nothing works. the caption aliases show up under cc_emit's list but calling them produces no output at all. not even the caption box. the default captions that are stored in the .gcf can be called but they're missing the last line to be printed. if you call a 1 lined caption you get the caption box but no output. if you call another 1 liner you get the previous caption's text.