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Translator Plugin

I've laid some groundwork for this plugin idea, but have no interest in finishing it so here's my offer to you. Basically, I want gameservers to be engaging for all players across all language barriers. This is how I think this can be accomplished.

Description:
A plugin which translates all text chat messages to & from a specific client who doesn't speak the server's main language. There are multiple ways this can be formatted, but here's what I was thinking

(Me as a German speaker in an English server.)

Code:

Some Player: Hey, Headline. How old are you?

Some Player {TRANSLATED FOR YOU}: Hallo, Headline. Wie alt bist du?

Headline: Ich bin 20

Headline {TRANSLATED FOR OTHERS}: I am 20

What I've done:

I've made a small php script which uses Google Translate's API hosted @ http://headlinedev.xyz/translate/translate.php
With get parameters of 'input' and 'target' where 'target' is the target language (spanish is 'es', for example).

Here's some code for you that I mocked up with an example request. There are some challenges that'd need to be worked out, but that's up to you to solve.

PHP Code:


		
			
#include <sdktools>
#include <SteamWorks>

public void Example()
{
    Handle request = CreateRequest("Hello, My name is \"headline\"", "es", 0);
    SteamWorks_SendHTTPRequest(request);
}

Handle CreateRequest(char[] input, char[] target, int client)
{
    Handle request = SteamWorks_CreateHTTPRequest(k_EHTTPMethodGET, "http://www.headlinedev.xyz/translate/translate.php");
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestGetOrPostParameter(request, "input", input);
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestGetOrPostParameter(request, "target", target);
    
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPRequestContextValue(request, GetClientUserId(client));
    SteamWorks_SetHTTPCallbacks(request, Callback_OnHTTPResponse);
    return request;
}

public int Callback_OnHTTPResponse(Handle request, bool bFailure, bool bRequestSuccessful, EHTTPStatusCode eStatusCode, int userid)
{
    if (!bRequestSuccessful || eStatusCode != k_EHTTPStatusCode200OK)
    {        
        return;
    }

    int iBufferSize;
    SteamWorks_GetHTTPResponseBodySize(request, iBufferSize);
    
    char[] result = new char[iBufferSize];
    SteamWorks_GetHTTPResponseBodyData(request, result, iBufferSize);
    delete request;

    
    // do something with result
}

Re: Translator Plugin

This seems a very usefull tool. You could release the php script too for host yourself? Probably I will make a public plugin with this since I have spanish and english people in the same servers.

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Franc1sco (Post 2530102)

This seems a very usefull tool. You could release the php script too for host yourself? Probably I will make a public plugin with this since I have spanish and english people in the same servers.

Im alright with releasing this php script, but under the agreement that if you make this plugin it will be released publicly :D

Re: Translator Plugin

Could you use Client's settings to figure out if their game is in a different language, then the plugin will attempt to translate what ever message to their language?

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Headline (Post 2530108)

Im alright with releasing this php script, but under the agreement that if you make this plugin it will be released publicly :D

Yes, that is the intention. I would like to see a lot of servers (specially jailbreak) with multilanguage support as I tried.

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Mitchell (Post 2530116)

Could you use Client's settings to figure out if their game is in a different language, then the plugin will attempt to translate what ever message to their language?

That's a great idea and would be cool to make this plugin seemless

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franc1sco (Post 2530122)

Yes, that is the intention. I would like to see a lot of servers (specially jailbreak) with multilanguage support as I tried.

Cool because it's a very simple backend, but I don't want this to be specific just to Jailbreak.

Just requires this dependency.

I plan on changing a few things when it comes to this simple script and I may change the dependency to something a little better at some point. I'm down to work with you on this, Francisco. Feel free to msg me on steam.

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php
require_once ('vendor/autoload.php');
use \Statickidz\GoogleTranslate;

$text = $_GET['input'];
$target = $_GET['target'];

$trans = new GoogleTranslate();
$result = $trans->translate('', $target, $text);

echo htmlspecialchars($result);

?>

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Headline (Post 2530437)

Just requires this dependency.

Isn't just better to make the curl request from the plugin than using that library and a webserver?

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Addicted. (Post 2530477)

Isn't just better to make the curl request from the plugin than using that library and a webserver?

it depends on how long the JSON payload is.

Re: Translator Plugin

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Originally Posted by Addicted. (Post 2530477)

Isn't just better to make the curl request from the plugin than using that library and a webserver?

Curl request to.... what exactly?

Re: Translator Plugin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Headline (Post 2530078)

Basically, I want gameservers to be engaging for all players across all language barriers. This is how I think this can be accomplished.

I like the idea of "multi-national", and have always tried to prefer my projects/communities/services/etc that way -

However, seeing as online translators don't always do things very good, ... it might still be a problem to get something that's simply understandable out of some words.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addicted. (Post 2530477)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Headline (Post 2530437)

Just requires this dependency.

Isn't just better to make the curl request from the plugin than using that library and a webserver?

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Originally Posted by Headline (Post 2530502)

Curl request to.... what exactly?

Directly to Google Translation API, the official way, would be a start?

The "library" you use is doing is a hacky workaround that might stop working one day.

However, Google Translation API (click for details!) probably doesn't make a such plugin very attractive after all.

- I'm not trying to be a show-stopper, and I'm perfectly fine with the idea though. But hacky workarounds are quite often the mother of all fuck ups!

All that being said, in regards to the language detection / choices:

It could be done based on cl_language, which has the user's Steam language settings.

A language selection menu could similar to GeoIP Language Selection
plugin be presented at the first join (when language is known). Instead of listing all languages, it could be a limited selection languages based on information of "Main foreign languages" of countries like this:

-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Denmark
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Sweden
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Norway
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Germany
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland

Options for users connecting depending on GeoIP country would be:

Code:

DK/Denmark                DNT, Danish, English, German, Swedish

SE/Sweden                DNT, Swedish, English, German, French, Norwegian, Danish

NO/Norway                DNT, Norwegian, English, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Russian

DE/Germany                DNT, German, English, French, Russian

CH/Switzerland                DNT, German, French, Italian, English

DNT obviously stands for Do Not Translate.

A side note, it would also be worth to have a list of languages that the user knows/understand.

I might be able to read Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, but not German, and would therefore be awesome to have German translated, where I would like Danish, Swedish and Norwegian as they were.

But with that one, there would be the issue with proper language detection though. Sometimes, Google Translate doesn't even do that good enough.