Deus Ex Alpha

im not sure id have the time, but id really like to give a try to translate 2027 into hungarian.
i have some experience translating (movie/tv series subtitles) but i never tried to localize a game.
any hints how to do it? i guess i need some tools to extract the text, translate it and compile it back somehow.
thanks,
g

If Ded approves, I'm sure he'll give you access to documents (speech/items etc) at your own leisure to play around with.

You can get all files you need here: http://code.google.com/p/project-2027/
2027's source has been released under LPGL license, so you can use them however you want.
To modify and compile game conversations, you will need ConEdit from the Deus Ex SDK.
There are 200-300 A4 pages of game texts total.

thanks,
g

i completed translating chapter 2 (conversation & infolink).
i know its not much (about 1/30th not counting item/aug/skill/perk etc descriptions, datacubes etc) but its a start.
is there a relatively simple way to see if it works (eg special characters)? like copying them into somewhere overrides the text in GameConversationsText.eng_u?
same question goes about datacubes/emails (i found these .txt files but not yet completed them).
im sorry about asking for help again and again but im a little over my head here: translating is ok, but i dont have any experience in game editing, i really dont know how to use utilities (conedit is ok, its simple),compile the conversations back, where to find the stuff to translate (like descriptions, gui elements) among the 5000+ files the repository contains.
it might be not the best methodology but id like to go chapter by chapter to able to test it. id also like to finish with the more tiring stuff like books and descriptions - conversations are actually quite fun.
thanks,
g


btw, great work with the reworked english translation, so far everything is comprehensible, and the dialogues give the characters more personality (chapter 2).

I have updated the description on http://code.google.com/p/project-2027/
Just follow the instructions, it's pretty easy, you just need to install a bunch of utilities and edit one text file.

thanks, ill try that tomorrow!

galocza wrote:btw, great work with the reworked english translation, so far everything is comprehensible, and the dialogues give the characters more personality (chapter 2).

I hope it's some of my work that you're enjoying. It really does make a big difference.

i managed to fire up ant at last (winant installer didnt work), succeeded compiling for the second try (during the first one ucc.exe stuck somehow).
now my problem is that there are cyrillic characters instead of hungarian ones in conversations/goals/notes/barks. infolink is ok.
http://freebies.uw.hu/Shot0000.jpg
instead of:
"Naponta egy látogató engedélyezett."
a few other examples:
http://freebies.uw.hu/Shot0001.jpg
http://freebies.uw.hu/Shot0002.jpg

ive read the warning about codetables, but i guess conedit should put out proper .con files, am i wrong in this?

If it's OK in infolinks, then it's probably because of the font I'm using for all texts, except for the infolinks (not sure if it has the characters you need since it is a Cyrillic font).
I can build you a font package that should work on this weekend if you send me some compiled conversation files to test.

i have modified
%REPOSITORY%/locale/02_Washington_CIA.eng
%REPOSITORY%/locale/DeusEx.eng
to test texts "Year 2025 Washington D.C., USA Human Horizon Lab" and "Houseplant"
(UTF-8 )

and

%REPOSITORY%/src/GameTextEng/Text/Mission02/2_Datacube02.txt
to test text "Per the updated security regulations..."
(cp1251)

in addition to Chapter2.con & Chapter2_Infolink.con.

compiling it resulted in a few errors (unlike before).
all texts should start with "áéíóöőúüű ÁÉÍÓÖŐÚÜŰ"
shot0003, shot0007: theres no change with %REPOSITORY%/locale/.eng files (possibly the errors in ant).
shot0004: more or less okay, although you cannot give conedit only ôûÔÛ instead of őűŐŰ.
shot0005: question marks all the way.
shot0006: cyrillic characters instead of latin ones (again, it should be: "áéíóöőúüű ÁÉÍÓÖŐÚÜŰ")

i will include the ucc.log file, an ms office document with the hungarian characters, the screenshots and all the modified text files in the zip file.

i saved the text files with libreoffice 3.3, specifying "encoded text" and utf-8 and cp1251 codepages as output. im not sure they are ok, but they should be.
http://freebies.uw.hu/DedPack.zip

EDIT: and of course let me know if i can be of any assistance to further the resolution to these issues.
g

Sorry for the delay. I was not able to test the package myself, but I think you will be able to build it on your system with a Hungarian locale.
I have prepared the package (DeusExUI_build.zip) with all fonts replaced with the infolink font (see below), but I'm not sure if it will work. Put it to \2027\System to check it yourself.

You can also use the DeusExUI's sources to build your own package:
1. Unzip and put these fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts
2. Unzip and put DeusExUI folder to your root Deus Ex folder and delete \System\DeusExUI.u and \2027\System\DeusExUI.u
3. Run a build script for some of the packages (say, SupportBots); the DeusExUI package should get updated as well (it will appear in \System folder, not in the \2027\System).

After you are able to build your own DeusExUI package, you can install your own fonts and use them in 2027 (the fonts are embedded into the DeusExUI package).
Open \DeusExUI\Classes\ImportGameFonts.uc. There should be a bunch of lines like this:

Code: Select all

#exec new TrueTypeFontFactory Name=FontBarkName FontName="Maza 2027 Bold" Height=18 AntiAlias=1

Just replace "Maza 2027 Bold" with a Windows' name of your font (open font file to see it).

sorry about not replying sooner, and thanks for your work.
i will try everything later (maybe the weekend), my dear parents dropped a new "project" into my lap.