TF2 Text Screwed Up?

[gacchas]

So I installed a huge haul of Pony Mods and launched TF2. Everything worked fine, and I was able to go on servers and other stuff. But the buttons are all screwed up. For example, there's a bunch of random symbols scattered in one word. The "Continue" button is replaced with "#TF_Continue". On my loadout, some items are labled as "Unknown Item". I also updated before TF2 launched, so I am not sure if it's the mod or the update that's causing this problem. I want to make sure there is actually a way to fix this before I unistall my mods.

[ivi]

Well they are probably the mods, there might be some kind of config file that messed up the buttons.

[Meme Fortress 2]

I use a bunch of custom stuff and experience similar issues, despite none of my mods being for the game ui or any of the .txt just sound, reskin, and custom models/particles. I have not done so yet, but I'm going to consolidate all my model mods into a few vpks and all my sounds into a single vpk and see if that fixes it. it may have to do with the number of individual vpks and their corresponding chache files or just x amount of custom content is enough to render the english broken. oh, also my inventory was listing stuff as 'unknown item' before the patch today

[gacchas]

I think I will try that. Hopefully it will solve both our problems. :)

[Meme Fortress 2]

how many individual vpks do you have in your custom folder? rough number, ive got like around 200 i think

[gacchas]

I had about 150-200 files in there, both vpk and cache

[Popiui]

daum thats alot ov vpk's

[Meme Fortress 2]

Originally posted by Popiui:

daum thats alot ov vpk's

well theres lots of things that can be customized. even stuff as simple as making certain weapons have better team colors. or improving the visual appearence of explosions and rocket trails

[racknae]

Try resetting the language in the chat menu. That usually works for me.

[Meme Fortress 2]

Originally posted by Pete Schweddy:

Try resetting the language in the chat. That usually works for me.

wat

[曦]

Originally posted by Schmoofy Doo:

I had about 150-200 files in there, both vpk and cache

Your mods' filenames are too long. Shorten them.

[Meme Fortress 2]

Originally posted by گοηυ:

Originally posted by Schmoofy Doo:

I had about 150-200 files in there, both vpk and cache

Your mods' filenames are too long. Shorten them.

is it really so simple? what would you recommend being a good range for max character limit for the names of stuff?

[曦]

Originally posted by A F2P scrub:

Originally posted by گοηυ:

Your mods' filenames are too long. Shorten them.

is it really so simple? what would you recommend being a good range for max character limit for the names of stuff?

Between 10-15 characters is what I have right now with about 175 mods. Any longer than that and I'll probably break my tf_english.txt like what happened to Schmoofy.

The easiest solution is to just turn all your non-VPKs into VPKs (unless they're videos in which case they can't be turned into VPKs) and smash all your VPKs into one, but doing that makes it a lot more work to remove individual mods. If you really wanted to you could also probably name them all really short phrases that are like 1-3 letters or numbers each, and have a separate text file that has a table linking the filename to the mod, but that's also a bit annoying.

[Meme Fortress 2]

awesome, thanks much for the info. this is gonna suck having to rename/ regroup these all. anything else i should know or avoid doing so i don't screw up down the line?

[曦]

Originally posted by A F2P scrub:

awesome, thanks much for the info. this is gonna suck having to rename/ regroup these all. anything else i should know or avoid doing so i don't screw up down the line?

Nope, that's about it. I have no idea why it happens, but at least the fix is easy.

[Meme Fortress 2]

thanks again, I've been asking around but had not gotten a solution till now. I really wish there was a custom/mods section for the tf2 discussions