Change language/localization from the start (GZDoom)

[The Royal We]

Is there any way to make a wad open with a pre-set language? For example: create a wad that when the player opens all menus and texts will be immediately in Korean.

[Gez]

14 hours ago, The Royal We said:

Is there any way to make a wad open with a pre-set language? For example: create a wad that when the player opens all menus and texts will be immediately in Korean.

Is there a legit use-case besides trolling the player?

[DRON12261]

13 hours ago, The Royal We said:

Is there any way to make a wad open with a pre-set language? For example: create a wad that when the player opens all menus and texts will be immediately in Korean.

In general, CVAR "language" is responsible for this. But for some reason GZDoom doesn't allow to change cvar's automatically. I got an error even in MENUDEF. Funny thing is that Zandronum knows how to handle such things, where I used the OPEN script in ACS to expose the desired sv_aircontrol.
 

I could suppose that you could try to do a TITLEMAP where you force your language through the ACS in the OPEN script, but there are two problems here, GZDoom can't handle this kind of thing and second, changing the language will always work even when the player doesn't need it (although maybe you can come up with additional checks for when to force a language and when not to).
 

Maybe ZScript has its own tools to handle this, but I'm not very familiar with ZScript.

Edited July 21, 2023 by DRON12261