Translation of Darwinia. Could I help?

[VMX]

Hello.

I'd like to know if there's any way that I could edit any files in the game folder so that I could manually translate the game to Spanish language doing it on my own.

Also, if Introversion are interested in me working in the translation of some or all of the English text to Spanish I'd be glad to help, you only have to te tell me what to do.

Thanks in advance.

[Dr4goN]

1. Download the 1.21 patch for Darwinia(or click here)
2. Go into your Darwinia location and rename file "Language.dat" into "Language.rar".
3. Extract it.
4. Start translating the contents of English.txt file into Spanish.
5. When done do the same as in points 2 & 3
6. Put your language into "\data\language\" located in Language.rar
7. Run Darwinia
8. Set the language into Spanish by hitting ESC, then selecting "Options" and "Other Options" and changing the "Language" value.

Edit: 101 post! Whee!!!!

[trickfred]

4 1/2. Rename your newly translated file to 'spanish.txt'

I believe this is necessary for there to be a 'Spanish' option in the Language menu?

[Wet_Flannel]

i want a irish option in t3h game language just for laffs (note not actual irish just english "irish style")

[VMX]

Ok, thanks for you clear responses.

Yes trickfred, it is necessary to save the file as "spanish.txt", hehe, I had figured that out already.

I have to say I'm glad to see that all the special characters have been included (I'm referring to á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ for Spanish). Without them the translation would be impossible, and I was fearing only English chars were in.

I don't know how long it could take me, especially because, at play, I'm still at the beginning of the game, and I guess translating it fully would spoil it for me . lol

Anyway, when it is ready I will upload it here.

Thank you all.

[xander]

Ok, thanks for you clear responses.

Yes trickfred, it is necessary to save the file as "spanish.txt", hehe, I had figured that out already.

I have to say I'm glad to see that all the special characters have been included (I'm referring to á, é, í, ó, ú and ñ for Spanish). Without them the translation would be impossible, and I was fearing only English chars were in.

I don't know how long it could take me, especially because, at play, I'm still at the beginning of the game, and I guess translating it fully would spoil it for me . lol

Anyway, when it is ready I will upload it here.

Thank you all.

Not entirely impossibly... you could always modify the font .bmp. ^_^

xander

[Wet_Flannel]

yes font change sounds suspicious....

[elDiablo]

Isn't it just plain old ASCII chars? =/

Or has Chris done something horrid again?

[The GoldFish]

The font bitmap file is a mapping of the characters from ascii 32 onwards, so the game displays whatever the ascii value of each text string character is in terms of which sprite tile from the font bitmap it refers to (hence why ¦ is displayed as a space)

[Lone Wolf]

Hi VMX! There are some of the translators at the MOD section of the forum. In search we trust!
You should complete a game once just to know what is Dr. S talking about, what terrible creatures are described, what happened to the world and lots of other stuff. You could make a proper translation then.
BTW, I'm almost done with Russian translation. Need to do some spellchecking. The whole work took almost a week.
Hmmm... It seems that you still will have to modify one of the fonts (editor_font_normal). Looks like it's missing some of the characters. Good luck VMX!

[Dr4goN]

There are some of the translators at the MOD section of the forum.

Yes, there is my group of translators, you can find them at Translation of Darwinia launched! thread.