[joao7yt]

Originally Posted by LowIntelligence Awesome work, it's been very useful on my servers I however do have a question! Would it be possible to use Steamworks to determine what Language a client is running the game in? (Steam language or region language isn't precise enough for me) If so, how should I approach this?

https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/la...ClientLanguage

[LowIntelligence]

Originally Posted by joao7yt https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/la...ClientLanguage

This returns the Client's Steam language, I specifically need the language the Game is set to.

[joao7yt]

Originally Posted by LowIntelligence This returns the Client's Steam language, I specifically need the language the Game is set to.

Hmmm, interesting, I thought it would return the current game language, since sourcemod needs to know that to be able to print translation phrases in the right language... If it doesn’t, then idk

[DarkDeviL]

Originally Posted by joao7yt Originally Posted by LowIntelligence This returns the Client's Steam language, I specifically need the language the Game is set to. Hmmm, interesting, I thought it would return the current game language, since sourcemod needs to know that to be able to print translation phrases in the right language... If it doesn’t, then idk

It does return the GAME language.

Steam Language: english
Game language: danish

Client "DarkDeviL" connected (x.x.x.x:27005).
Server waking up from hibernation
DarkDeviL - GetClientInfo "cl_language": danish
DarkDeviL - GetClientLanguage: danish

Generated using something like this in OnClientConnect:

CODE

                char cl_language[32];
                if (GetClientInfo(client, "cl_language", cl_language, sizeof(cl_language))) {
                        PrintToServer("%N - GetClientInfo \"cl_language\": %s", client, cl_language);
                } else {
                        PrintToServer("%N - failed", client);
                }

                int gcl_number = GetClientLanguage(client);
                char gcl_code[4];
                char gcl_language[32];
                GetLanguageInfo(gcl_number, gcl_code, sizeof(gcl_code), gcl_language, sizeof(gcl_language));

                PrintToServer("%N - GetClientLanguage: %s", client, gcl_language);

[psychonic]

It will always return the language that the game is actually using. Note that some supported games always use the Steam UI langauge, ignoring the game-specific value.

[LowIntelligence]

Originally Posted by arne1288 It does return the GAME language. Client "DarkDeviL" connected (x.x.x.x:27005). Server waking up from hibernation DarkDeviL - GetClientInfo "cl_language": danish DarkDeviL - GetClientLanguage: danish Generated using something like this in OnClientConnect: CODE char cl_language[32]; if (GetClientInfo(client, "cl_language", cl_language, sizeof(cl_language))) { PrintToServer("%N - GetClientInfo \"cl_language\": %s", client, cl_language); } else { PrintToServer("%N - failed", client); } int gcl_number = GetClientLanguage(client); char gcl_code[4]; char gcl_language[32]; GetLanguageInfo(gcl_number, gcl_code, sizeof(gcl_code), gcl_language, sizeof(gcl_language)); PrintToServer("%N - GetClientLanguage: %s", client, gcl_language);

Much appreciated for the effort, but like I said, I needed a precise method.
I was hoping there'd be a way to use Steamworks to get the actual language the game is running in as L4D2 uses the method Psychonic described.

[Visual77]

There's nothing wrong in the provided picture here. English game UI = cl_language english.
(Take a break, call a vote, invite a friend, leaderboard - how is that russian?

[LowIntelligence]

Originally Posted by Visual77 There's nothing wrong in the provided picture here. English game UI = cl_language english. (Take a break, call a vote, invite a friend, leaderboard - how is that russian?

The Game's language, as in localized content.
When the game is set to Russian, but your Steam is English it will keep the UI in English, yes.
However, the audio will be played from your separate Russian folders.
Same goes for other languages that have their own Audio.

Unfortunately there's a rather big exploit with using different game languages that'll allow you to gain a huge advantage.
This is why I'm trying to find a feature that'll allow you to at least detect what Language the client has the game set to.

[KyleS]

Originally Posted by LowIntelligence The Game's language, as in localized content. When the game is set to Russian, but your Steam is English it will keep the UI in English, yes. However, the audio will be played from your separate Russian folders. Same goes for other languages that have their own Audio.

File a bug on the Valve issue tracker.

Originally Posted by LowIntelligence Unfortunately there's a rather big exploit with using different game languages that'll allow you to gain a huge advantage.

Just check all the files?

[LowIntelligence]

Originally Posted by KyleS File a bug on the Valve issue tracker.

Yeah I've done that a bit ago, afraid it was even a duplicate from an even older one.
Just labeled, no replies to either of the issues.

Originally Posted by KyleS Just check all the files?

In general we already check for a ton of sound files.
The problem is that AFAIK you can only decide to either force everyone to have all the sounds (which would be from every language, which obviously not everyone is going to have)

It'd be perfect if there was a method that worked with L4D2 that allowed you to check if a file existed on the client and if it did check if it matched the server. That way it wouldn't kick someone that is playing in English for missing Russian/other Language files.

I'm open to any ideas, really, and I appreciate the replies that go beyond the scope of this topic.
I'm guessing that's a no on being able to use Steamworks somehow to gain the localization setting for the client?