A Guide to Fan Translations

A guide on how to add fan translations to the game and create your own translations!

How to Use a Fan Translation In your Game

Fan Translations for Boneraise Minions can be found in the game's Steam Workshop.

1. With the game closed, use the Steam browser and head to the Boneraise Minions store page. Click the Community Hub tab, then the Workshop tab.
2. Find a translation you like the look of and click it to go to its page. Then click the big Subscribe button.
3. Simply start the game and the text will automatically be translated.

Creating your own Translations

Fancy making your own translation? First you'll need to head over to the Boneraiser Minion's game folder where its game files are stored. To get there, right click Boneraiser Minions in your Library, hover over Manage, then click Browse Local Files.

There you'll see a file called "translation_reference.csv". Open up this file in notepad and you'll see a lot of lines of text, which is in fact all the text in the game.

You can see each line has two bits of text in "" and separated by a comma. The text on the left is the special id the game will look for, and the corresponding phrase on the right (separated by the comma) is what the game will show.

"Intro_Desc1_1","In a time longeth departed, those with forbidden power"

The text above is the first line in the game's intro. When the intro is shown it will look for the special id "Intro_Desc1_1", and show the corresponding text.

It Begins...

So how do you create your own translation file? Make a copy of the "translation_reference.csv" file and rename it to "translation_dev.csv". Now you can go through and translate all of the text in right hand brackets. Note the text on the left (the special ids) must be kept the same as that's what the game looks for.

"Intro_Desc1_1","Dans un temps révolu depuis longtemps, ceux qui ont un pouvoir interdit"

As you can see above, I've translated the first line of the game's intro into French.

To load your new translation into the game, you'll need to press the F6 key during play which opens up a special Translation Dev menu. Clicking the "load dev translation" option will load the "translation_dev.csv" file into the game and translate all the game's text live so you can see if the translated text looks correct.

Note some texts may not instantly update as an object's text is often loaded only when they are created. So in the case of a menu for example, you may need to close and reopen the menu to see the newly translated text.

In the translation file you'll often see lines of text like below.

"","                                                                                  "
"Section - Title Screen                                                            ",""

These Section bits are purely there just to make the translation file easier to navigate.

There is also the following three lines of text at the top of the file which are important.

"TranslationWorkshop_Title","translation title"
"TranslationWorkshop_Desc","translation description"
"TranslationWorkshop_ForceHD","yes"

When uploading your translation to the Workshop, the first line is the title of the Workshop item, and the second line is the description. The third line will force the game's text to use the HD Font setting which is needed for anything other than when using the English language. You can set this third line to "no" to prevent this, but is only useful if you're making minor English changes.

Note the order of the text lines in the file doesn't matter, so you can reorganise them as you see fit. If a translation line doesn't exist in your file then the game will simply use the default in-game English text instead, so you can even start with a blank translation file and add in text lines as you go.

Uploading to Steam Workshop

Once you're happy with your translation, you'll need to do a couple of things to get it uploaded to the Steam Workshop for other people to use.

1. Go to Boneraiser Minion's game folder and you'll see a "Workshop" folder. Copy your "translation_dev.csv" file into this folder.
2. In game open up the Translation Dev menu, and click the "upload to workshop" option.
3. Job done! Everybody can now subscribe to your translation.

If you want to update your translation then you simply follow the same process. Note the filename must be the exact same in order for it to be recognised as an update. If the filename is different then it will create a new Workshop translation item.


Feel free to post any translation files you've made in the Fan Translations forum for others to enjoy!

Help!

If you want to find translations or you're having issues then there's the Fan Translations forum here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/?appid=1944570