Me wrote:I've run into another problem: commodities. We cannot translate them, as they are identified and called for by their names. So if I rename Firearms to Waffen, they're no firearms anymore.
Only solution to that: the current name of the commodities would have to be converted into a mere identifier. Then in a second step a freely choosable namestring would have to be attached to this identifier.
another_commander wrote:Both these are resolved in the version I'm working on. I can send you the files I currently have, as an example, if you want. The idea is that you are not replacing the definition keys, but only the strings containing the names displayed in the game.
I don't think you have resolved this. In case of the commodities the "strings containing the names displayed in the game"
are the "definition keys". That's why I made the point that you have to
create a definition key, which then in the second step gets a namestring attached to it. This means a reprogramming of the code, a new commodities.plist isn't enough!
With your new commodities.plist any "
awardCargo: <amount> <commodity-name>"-method doesn't work anymore. In a script there will be the line
awardCargo: 1 Gold. Your player gets nothing, because there is no commodity "Gold" anymore in your commodities.plist. And the engine cannot translate "Gold" into "Oro",
until you have programmed it to do so. Have you done this?
To make clear what I'm talking about: Currently an entry in commodities.plist looks like this:
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<array>
<string>Food</string> <-- Name
<integer>0</integer> <-- Quantity at market
<integer>0</integer> <-- Price at market
<integer>19</integer> <-- Base price
<integer>-2</integer> <-- Price adjustment
<integer>-2</integer> <-- Quantity adjustment
<integer>6</integer> <-- Base quantity
<integer>1</integer> <-- Price mask
<integer>1</integer> <-- Quantity mask
<integer>0</integer> <-- Units
</array>
In the current game the first entry is
both:
Name and
identifier (or
definition key). Commodities are only identified by this exact string.
What we need is an additional entry in the list, in order to seperate name and identifier. So the Italian version would look like this:
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<array>
<string>Food</string> <-- Identifier
<string>Cibo</string> <-- Name
<integer>0</integer> <-- Quantity at market
<integer>0</integer> <-- Price at market
<integer>19</integer> <-- Base price
<integer>-2</integer> <-- Price adjustment
<integer>-2</integer> <-- Quantity adjustment
<integer>6</integer> <-- Base quantity
<integer>1</integer> <-- Price mask
<integer>1</integer> <-- Quantity mask
<integer>0</integer> <-- Units
</array>
The
identifier has to be the same in all language versions. This is what a script uses to award a cargo. The
name would be what is displayed, and would be
Cibo in Italien,
Lebensmittel in German and
Chakula in the Swahili version (if there will be any
).
So the commodity-handling in the engine has to be reprogrammed, in order to seperate commodity
names from
identifiers.
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