Well, it has passed about 2 months and 270+ views.

It can be interested to know some opinions about the subtitles, if they work or are useful for anybody.

Anyone has tested (and enjoyed) them?

Sure! Your opinion is welcome!

Thanks a lot for the testing and comment.

I played the game (Mission Story) completely and worked (for Spanish translation). So I assume they will work with English subtitles.

About your questions, I can give some answers, but maybe they didn't like:

- Subtitles must be recompiled everytime you add more subtitles or the in-game resolution changes. This is how the tool works. This mod is not of my own, I followed the work of Larosh with it's own .DLL. The link is at first post.

1.) I think I didn't used MP3codec.dll as far as I know, I played/used the tool AS IS. Somehow the tool must "read" some bytes from the beggining of the audio file to know which subtitle must display, so it should be independant from the coded used.
I don't know another methor of doing so.

2.) I needed to decode some missions because of synchronicity of dialogues. Some appearing from full cinematic to in-game, so I must adjust them (there are a few, maybe 10 or so) to appear before going in-game or after full screen cinematic. I have only changed timings in appear things, not the rest of the scripts. Also, sometimes there were 2 or more people talking or talking so fast that some subtitles join with the previous/next subtitle. Displaying subtitles for two differents sources (Juni and Trent, for example at the same time) was displayed incorrectly.

3.) As told in readme.txt, the black band for cinematic subtitles can not be made transparent (at least I don't know how to do it). I tryed to use the same code that with the in-game subtitles but sometimes the subtitles do not appear in display. So it is the unique solution, and Larosh commented it also.

4.) You can change position coordinates, background box size, text color, background transparent gradient for in-game dialogues, in subtitles.cfg.

5.) The config file is not used in runtime, it is used only for compilation. So, you can have various config files and use them at your convenience. I assume that when you use a resolution, you will use it always, you will not be changing it all the time. This is how the tool works. I added various config files for different screen resolutions, that's all.

6.) Yes, I advertise about that also. You can mod Reshade d3d8.dll with the source code of this d3d8.dll subtitles code or viceversa. I don't know another method of doing this. In fact I think that this d3d8.dll for subtitles is hooking the real d3d8.dll, I don't know how to hook a .dll that is hooking at the same time another .dll. xD

It is obvious you can improve it by far, but my expectation was to see the subtitles for Story Mission (for Spanish translation of Freelancer), not for new texts or mods, although it is a resource that anyone can use for its own mods. I decided to post the tool for English speaking people, I've seen some people requesting subtitles for Story Mission. And I decided to add also an English version. It is obvious you can use this tool for other languages.

Thanks a lot for your comments. I said before that my DirectX programming is very bad/ultralimited, and I don't know at all how to implement some things, but I think that my expectation to play the story mission with this mod is achieved. I hope you understand that.