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
}
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