Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Fuffe]

What a downer. I got almost all of the translation done only to find out it does not support special characters. (Å Ä Ö)

[Bad King Urgrain]

I'm looking into that.

edit:
Allright, here's one way of fixing it. You'll need to use Notepad++. Standard notepad included with Windows doesn't let you do this.

In the .lua file of your translation, open the "Encoding" menu at the top. There, select "Convert to UTF-8 without BOM". Everything should look the same as before. Save your file to apply the conversion.


All the characters are now stored in a way that makes Source happier, and the special characters should work. You can do this to an existing file, no need to start over. If you are using a different editor that lets you change encoding to UTF-8 without BOM (abbrevation for "byte order marker"), that will of course work just as well as Notepad++.

Note that I will be writing a guide with this information (but nicer screenshots) and much more very soon (I'm starting on it tomorrow).

[ThePaSch]

What is the cvar to set the server's default language?

Great work, by the way. This will really help our server out. You're awesome.  :D :D

[Bad King Urgrain]

The convar is ttt_lang_serverdefault. So you'd set it in your cfg like

ttt_lang_serverdefault english

Or if the language has a space in it, quotes are required:

ttt_lang_serverdefault "swedish chef"

Uppercase/lowercase is not important.

[ThePaSch]

Alright, thanks. Works like a charm, also with Umlauts after your workaround. :D

Edit: There is an issue I have been encountering. Say I set my language to German on a server which supports German. If I leave and join a server without the German language, tons of Lua errors appear and the UI is just empty, without any text. Also, there is an error message saying "could not find language pack: german".
Because the settings menu is completely empty without any buttons, I have to rejoin the former server, set the language to auto and join the latter again.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Ah, I need to make it fall back to english if a language does not exist. Thanks for reporting.

For the record, you can also use the console: "ttt_language english" should set it to english without needing the menu.

edit:
Some updates are now in the gmod SVN:
- Fixed the above issue with missing languages.
- Spectators stay in ragdoll spec for a few seconds before they can click to leave it.
- Glocks in CS:S rearm scripts.

[ThePaSch]

There's a small problem:
I installed a German translation on our server, put the cache into FastDL,  did all the stuff one needs to do. I also set the server default language to German.
However, no matter what we've tried, it stays English on his game. He set his language setting to "Server Default", but that did nothing.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Is German in the menu's list of languages for him? Is this only for one person or also if you join yourself?

[ThePaSch]

No, German is not on the list, even though he downloaded the cache.

And it works perfectly for me.

Are missing languages automatically downloaded and used if they're the default server language and on FastDL?

[Bad King Urgrain]

All languages on the server should always be in the cache, that shouldn't be a problem. There might be an issue where TTT doesn't find the languages in the cache properly. I'll have to do some testing tomorrow to figure that out.

[Sly]

Discombob kills appear to show up as being killed by {trap}.

Requesting some indication of a C4 being destroyed, like the Health Station's little buzz and spark. Hard to prove you didn't just take it.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Noted on both counts.

[Bad King Urgrain]

The bug where players could not select or otherwise use languages that were available on the server (and in the lua cache) has been fixed in the SVN build (r666). I've tried to get this in as soon as possible just in case it can ship with the emergency gmod update, but who knows if it will.

If it doesn't, I will make a few more small fixes and release a .zip version of TTT that servers can install if they need languages to work.

[Darkest_97]

Found some bug type thing.
Look at the first kill. This was on trappycottage so i assume it has something to do with the kill attribution or whatever.

http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae270/Joey0977/?action=view&current=ttt_trappycottage_b10000.jpg

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Edit: Also TTT events are printing with wierd tabbing in console, unless i just dont understand what its doing.
Like this:

[NC] Shadow Cross: Cal me to it
TTT: SAFFRON found the body of Soviet Airlines. He was innocent.
TTT:SAFFRON found the body of Bushner. He was a Traitor!
TTT:SAFFRON confirmed the death of Anonymous Santa.
TTT: SAFFRON found the body of Anonymous Santa. He was innocent.

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Edit2: All c4's planted dont seem to show up in the round log, cant really give you any more info than that.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I'll check out that translation error, though I may already have fixed it while dealing with discomb kills.

The tabbing is a Source/gmod bug where sometimes a tab/line-end gets eaten by the console. Might be related to having multicore rendering enabled in your video settings. Either way, I'll fix it by replacing the tab by spaces.

I'll look at C4 events.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Updates in SVN:
- C4 destroyed = sparks.
- Various issues with translation strings in the event log fixed.
- Goomba kills are attributed to the person who pushed the guy who fell on a dude (yep), if the guy was pushed.

[GrayScare0]

Would you consider removing the confirmation button for destroying C4?  In a few scenarios I have called out a C4, defused it, and then tried to destroy it but another innocent came up and stole it right in front of my face (and then planted it and killed other innocents, but that's irrelevant).  Or perhaps only have one person able to interact with the C4 at a time, so that two people cannot try defusing/grabbing/destroying it at once?

[FBC]

Congratulations on multiplayer mod of the year, BKU

[eeny]

Congratulations on multiplayer mod of the year, BKU

Wait what?

[FBC]

Whoops, I mean on getting the nomination for MPMOTY

http://www.moddb.com/events/2010-mod-of-the-year-awards/features/editors-choice-best-multiplayer-mod-2010