• Fixed chat message receiver to follow the original flatouts message receiver because it was reported to me that during very fast chat moments the messages could still not appear in the chat (kill me pls) its fixed after testing this FEW times

• Added Message language detection based on if another user is a BetterChat user or not, meaning: if a user is vanilla chat user, the special characters are forced to Russian only, while a BetterChat User will see every special character from every language correctly

(Note: Sending messages still works in every language for Vanilla Zoom chat users, for OLD Version Vanilla Chat users the special characters visibility will depend on players game language)

If Updating from 1.15.1-1.15.7 just replace the asi file

• SmartDecode has been restored back to how it was in previous versions

(I wanted to make so that special characters from German or Spanish are also compatible together with Russian but unfortunately that didnt work which resulted Russian not working in 1.15.6, sad)

(If Updating from 1.15.1 - 1.15.6 just Replace the asi File)

• Fixed Turning German, Spanish, Turkish and other languages special characters into Russian due to decoding issue

• Added 20 emojis and fixed 2 duplicates

• Code Optimization

• Added Documentation and DevLog file in case anyone wants to read!

if updating from 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.15.3, 1.15.4 or 1.15.5, just replace the asi file!

• Again minor issues fix

• Fixed messages sometimes not appearing in the chat (chat was checking history size of 32, when it should have been 33, so every 33rd message was not appearing)

• Added 43 new emojis (Wide and static ones)
  
  (If updating from 1.15.3 or 1.15.4, just replace the asi file)

• Minor Fixes

• Improved behaviour of BCUserStar

Installation: if updating from 1.15.3 - just replace the asi file.

• 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.

• Добавлено автоматическое определение языка перевода других пользователей!

• Новая клавиша F12 для включения/отключения автоматического определения языка перевода других пользователей (эта фигня становится всё сложнее)

• Изменен лимит текста с 79 до 75, чтобы избежать обрезки текста.

• Обновлено определение некорректного перевода (перевод должен отличаться менее чем на 85%, чтобы отображаться в чате, иначе он скрывается, если очень похож на исходное сообщение — это исправит ситуацию, когда перевод иногда появляется для сообщений, которые не должны переводиться, к сожалению, это будет работать хуже, когда вы переводите на свой русский язык из-за транслитерации). (Перевод никогда не будет идеальным, ребята, к сожалению, у меня так много ограничений, с которыми я работаю, но, по крайней мере, он у нас есть, наверное :D)

Обновлен экран приветствия и добавлена ​​команда "//help", если вам нужна помощь в запоминании сочетаний клавиш или вы хотите узнать больше о том, как все работает.

• Добавлен приветственный экран при первом запуске мода и выборе языка.

• Обновлен стикер в верхнем левом углу, когда включен перевод. Теперь при переводе собственных сообщений рядом с примером TR:[ru] будет отображаться (!).

• Добавлен перевод на испанский и немецкий языки.

• Улучшена работа с ID и предотвращена дальнейшая путаница для пользователей с ID.

(Файл BetterChat.bfs остался прежним, он не был обновлен)

Убедитесь, что вы заменили flatout_chat.ini на новую версию и BetterChat.asi на новую версию BetterChatV1.01.asi