I18N Status: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:46, 30 August 2011

This article deals with the localisation/translation of both TDM itself, as well as Fan Missions.

The I18N support in TDM will only work with v1.07 or newer.

All the strings in the menu, the HUD, the in-game messages, the different menus as well as inventory items have been made translatable.
The bitmaps in the various menus are to 98% done, there are actually only about 10 bitmaps left that need to be converted to text.
The default Doom3 english.lang has been slimmed down (from >5400 to 200 entries), then all the nec. strings for TDM have been added, including a lot of sensible default strings that are either useful or used in FMs (like names for inventory items, speaker names and so on).
There is a script which can convert old FMs into I18N capable FMs, even matching different translations.
The translation is currently almost complete for English, Italian and German. Missing are Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and a few bits from Russian.

Name	English	German	French	Italian	Spanish	Russian	Portuguese	Polish
Outpost	Yes	50%	Yes	50%	No	No	No	No
Thief's Den	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No

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 {{infobox|{{red|The I18N support in TDM will only work with v1.07 or newer.}}}}
+== TDM Core ==
+* All the strings in the menu, the HUD, the in-game messages, the different menus as well as inventory items have been made translatable.
+* The bitmaps in the various menus are to 98% done, there are actually only about 10 bitmaps left that need to be converted to text.
+* The default Doom3 ''english.lang'' has been slimmed down (from >5400 to 200 entries), then all the nec. strings for TDM have been added, including a lot of sensible default strings that are either useful or used in FMs (like names for inventory items, speaker names and so on).
+* There is a script which can convert old FMs into I18N capable FMs, even matching different translations.
+* The translation is currently almost complete for English, Italian and German. Missing are Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and a few bits from Russian.
+=== TODO ===
+# Adding accented and Umlaut characters to the Carleton main bitmap font
+# I18N PK4 files need automatic download support.
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 !Outpost
 |align="center"| {{green|Yes}}
-|align="center"| {{red|No}}
+|align="center"| {{orange|50%}}
 |align="center"| {{green|Yes}}
 |align="center"| {{orange|50%}}