Language & Text modding

[RamiroRa]

Is there any tool for modding the text in game?

[dwtietz]

Might sort of depend on what you mean by modding the text in game, and to what extent.

A lot of the text that is displayed in-game is in the game's .con (script) files which can most certainly be modified easily enough. There is some other text however (mostly main menu text), that is part of the game's source code, so to edit some of these particular types of entries, you'd need to edit/modify the source code files and then compile your own binaries.

Here are two such examples where I'd made language conversions (as much as I could anyway) into Spanish and Russian. (These are old now and were made to work with Ion Fury v1.1):

fury-ES
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ion-fury-mod-packs/downloads/fury-es

fury-RU
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ion-fury-mod-packs/downloads/fury-ru

At any rate, the only thing I used to make all of the changes (.con scripts and source code) was Notepad++.

[RamiroRa]

Interesting. I wanted to make a mod to spanish too. It's your mod based on european spanish or latinoamerican spanish?

[dwtietz]

Originally posted by RamiroRa:

Interesting. I wanted to make a mod to spanish too. It's your mod based on european spanish or latinoamerican spanish?

The person that helped me with the Spanish translations was from Mexico, although there were instances where he was very much aware of differences between latinoamerican and european dialects, and he would attempt to come up with words/terms/phrases that would accommodate both as much as possible, even if it meant saying things in a way that he wouldn't normally say it them himself.

Feel free to download my older version and poke through it all you want. The con scripts are the easiest to go through, but all of the source code files are there too, so there's nothing that you wouldn't be able to find if you dug deep enough.

I haven't bothered updating my old project to make it v2.0x compatible. I don't particularly have any plans for doing so, but feel free to take as much or as little out of these files that you want if there's anything helpful at all.

Since you have the game in Steam, I think you can back date your installation to v1.1 - That way you could try this mod out first hand, then re-update to the latest version afterward.

[dwtietz]

There's a bit of a tricky part to making complete language translations for the whole game. A lot of the dialog boxes, as well as screen backdrops (like the one in the "Read me" screen from the main menu) were not designed with the accommodation of additional languages in mind, so it can get really tricky trying to make text fit in the space available where you can't change the background size (well... not without getting into art file replacements), or making adjustments to the sizes of the text boxes for various messages (like the questions that pop up while quitting the game).

[RamiroRa]

Ok. Thanks for the help!