• Added in config a line to disable the INSERT button for transliteration in case you dont need it or its annoying.

(Version for Selo Car Pack is not needed since for that version INSERT button is already turned off)

Installation: Replace the old asi file with the new one, the config file will update itself automatically if you were playing on previous chat versions.

For Normal version of the game 1.15.3 is newest, for SCP 1.15.2 is newest

• Fixed small issues within the code

• Fixed chat that sometimes would fail to load

(If Updating from 1.15.1, just replace the asi file.)

• Fixed an issue where if you had chat set to be left aligned, if translation was longer than original text, the translation would go out of intended bounds.

• Less anti virus false detections.

(if updating from BetterChat V1.15, just delete the asi file and put the new 1.15.1 asi file in)

• Added 39 new emojis.

• Improved the Emoji Window List to make it easier to navigate around.

• Improved Emoji detection and made that if a emoji is detected in a text, it gives the text a bit more space so the emoji doesnt bleed to other stuff/out of the dark background.

• Other small improvements.

(If updating from V1.14.2, just change the asi file!)

• Fixed message alignment issues (messages are now properly centered)

• Resolved minor code issues

• Improved message height calculation (fixed a rare case where extra space was reserved for a second line even when text didn’t wrap, causing unnecessary empty space)

• If Updating from 1.14.1, just replace the asi file!

• Fixed issue where BCUserStar would misalign the text causing it to wrap earlier than expected causing weird glitches

• Improved the handle of minimizing the game (if someone was crashing during minimize, now shouldnt)

• Other small code optimization.

(If you are updating from 1.14, just replace the asi file!)

• Updated chat drawing text logic and added a toggle in config to make the text be left aligned when the text wraps or be right aligned (right aligned turned on by default because it looks better in my opinion)

• Changed ChatBubbles to be turned ON by default (Dark Background behind text for better visibility)

• Improved player color names to better match the colors of the arrows in the game.

• Added a setting in config called BCUserStar (If its Turned ON a player that uses BetterChat will have a golden star next to their name in the chat)

Installation:

Put the BetterChat.asi in the game folder and delete the old one

delete BetterChat.ini file if you have it to acquire new stuff from the update

put BetterChat.bfs in game folder and add it to filesystem file if you are doing it for the first time.

After testing multiple translation engines, DeepL performed very poorly — in my opinion, even worse than Google.

However, I tested another candidate: Azure Translator. The results were near perfect across the board. Based on this testing, Azure appears to be significantly more accurate and reliable than DeepL.

Changes in this version:

DeepL has been replaced with the Azure translation engine.

Important:

You will still need an API key. Additionally, you must specify the region where the API key was created to ensure it matches your configuration settings that you set on Azure and the ini file so they match.

• Added ability to change translation engine from Google To DeepL if you have your own API key

• TemplateMessages has been increased from 5 to 10

Installation:

Delete previous version of BetterChat and delete BetterChat.ini - new ini file will be created upon game launch and choosing your native language

• Increased the maximum message length to 120 characters. (If the text is over 75 characters - your message will be sent as 2 messages) And if F10 is ON it changes to 100 to prevent long translation overflow

• Added 44 new emotes, including static, animated, and new wide emojis.

• Improved Visibility of some emotes

• Added Turkish to the supported translator languages.

• Improved emote filtering logic.

• Emoji menu is now disabled for text-based emoticons like :D, :P, and :/...

• Added more changeable keybinds in the ini file

• Added detection if you are in lobby or race and made if you are in lobby chat stays open after hitting enter, while in race it closes

• _Fixed Emojis being translated, now they wont.

• New Option "DrawBubbles" Adds a black curvy background behind messages for better visibility, can be turned on/off in ini file

• Minor Code Improvements

Installation:

Put all the files from .zip into flatouts directory folder.

If Updating:

Delete old BetterChat .asi file

(ini file has been renamed to BetterChat.ini instead of flatout_chat.ini, so you dont need to delete flatout_chat.ini file, if anything you can port your settings into the new file - new file will be created upon game launch)

• Added Emoji support (static and animated) - all emojis 98, animated 17.

• Added a F8 keybind to hide messages of other players when chat is closed

• Improved math logic for text wrapping (drawing and height calculation)

• Added support for custom font (you can change the font in ini file)

• Added Templates Messages! (3 templates you can assign your hotkeys and custom text to send messages quickly - you can edit those in ini file)

• Added ability to scroll chat with Page UP and Page Down

• Updated //help command

• Other small improvements.

BetterChat.bfs was not updated, just here in case you still need it (bfs is for vanilla fo2 to remove the original chat from lobby)

Replace BetterChatV1.03.asi file and delete flatout_chat.ini file, a new one will be created when the game will start for the first time.

As for now i think this will be the last update, unless in future some new ideas come in

• Added Auto Detect translation of others!

• New Keybind F12 to disable/enable automatic detection of language of translation others

• (this shit is getting complicated)

• Changed text limit from 79 to 75 to avoid cutting off text sometimes.

• Updated bad translation detection (translation needs to be less than 85% different to appear in the chat, otherwise it gets hidden if its very similar to original message - will fix translation sometimes appearing for messages it shouldnt translate, unfortunately that will work worse for when you translate to your RU language because of transliterations). (Translation will never be perfect guys, unfortunately there is so many limits i work with, atleast we have it i guess :D)

Updated welcome screen and added "//help" command if you need any help remembering the keybinds or you need to know more information how everything works

• Added A Welcome Screen when you first launch the mod and choose your language

• Updated Sticker in top left corner when translation is On, now when you Translate your own messages it will show (!) next to example: TR:[ru]

• Added translation for Spanish and German.

• Improved how ID works and prevented further confusion for the users with the IDs

(BetterChat.bfs is the same file as before, it was not updated)

Make sure you replace flatout_chat.ini with the new version and replace BetterChat.asi with new version BetterChatV1.01.asi