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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Kennyyyyy on January 24, 2009, 04:03:22 pm

Title: Game Translation
Post by: Kennyyyyy on January 24, 2009, 04:03:22 pm

Hi,

i wanted to translate Tremulous into german but it seems that this isn't working.

I took the data-1.1.0.pk3 extracted it and translated all places with "text". Then i compressed it with Xarchiver and renamed to data-1.1.0.pk3. The menu works in german at my client but by another one it doesn't work. Ingame is also completely english. I know that this should only work in normal trem which uses the data pk3 in the base folder. But it seems that this isn't really working.

Now i hope that you can help me...  :'(

Thanks
Greetings

Title: Re: Game Translation
Post by: David on January 24, 2009, 04:11:35 pm

90% of the text is complied into the qvm, which has to be consistent across all clients and the server.
Also editing data-1.1.0.pk3 is a bad idea, make a new pk3 with just the files you changed in it.

Title: Re: Game Translation
Post by: Kennyyyyy on January 24, 2009, 04:50:14 pm

Ah ok, thanks.
So how can i install this pk3 which i create?

Or is it possible to make a translation with a hud file? *thinking*

Title: Re: Game Translation
Post by: Lakitu7 on January 25, 2009, 11:10:40 am

Files are loaded in a particular order (alpha sorted, within a given path location) and when multiple copies of the same file are loaded, whichever was loaded last stays. So, if you wanted to override a file in data-1.1.0.pk3, you could make another pk3 file with those modified files in it (using the same names and paths within the pk3/zip file as were in data-1.1.0). Then, put your new pk3 in the same place as data-1.1.0.pk3 and name it anything that's alpha-sorted after data-1.1.0.pk3. Perhaps you'd go for data-german.pk3 or something.

That said, as David said, much of the text isn't actually in the .menu files and is instead hard-coded, so there's that problem on top of your not being able to use a (modded) pk3 on pure servers without those servers having the same pk3 installed (though they can make having that pk3 optional for their users). Currently the game isn't written in a way that's particularly conducive to translations. Sorry :(

Title: Re: Game Translation
Post by: Kennyyyyy on February 01, 2009, 12:21:01 pm

Sorry for not answering. :D

Ok, then i say thank you very much for the answers. I will see if this way with the pk3 works. I will speak with the serveradmin in my clan.