Polymega
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1 year ago Hi Virake,
Thanks for reaching out! We'd love to include a Ukrainian translation pack to the project.
would it be okay to use them, provided I get their authors' permission? I'm willing to start from scratch, but it would be nice to save some time.
Of course, so long as the original author is okay with this.
I will of course need the original English text, preferably in a spreadsheet format, but plain text will do.
To translate the game, you will actually need to edit the .mes (message) files. There exists a tool which converts these files to plain text format for editing purposes. Once edited, the same tool will convert them back to the format that the game understands.
If there are game textures with text in them, it would be great if I could get them in an editable format.
For the translation packs that we will offer on our project site, the only game texture that needs to be translated is the main menu choices. I can do this for you. I would need the following translated:
LOAD
CONTINUE
NEW GAME
OPTIONS
MOVIES
EXIT
ACTION LEVEL
RIDDLE LEVEL
HARD
NORMAL
EASY
BEGINNER
Main Scenario: LETTER FROM SILENT HEAVEN
Sub Scenario: BORN FROM A WISHFor the translation to work, the game must support Cyrillic characters, including those specific to the Ukrainian language (Іі, Її, Єє, Ґґ).
Understood. So what we will need to do is make a custom font sheet for the Ukranian translation pack. I took a look at the Ukrainian alphabet and it looks like most of the characters will need to be added in by replacing existing characters.
This means we will need to replace certain characters with the Ukrainian characters. I can do this for you once you decide on which characters to replace. But take a look at the font sheet to get an idea of what characters are available for possible replacement. (This is a transparent PNG with white characters. You may need to save the image and view it outside of your web browser.)
So, as an example, you could replace H h with Д д in the font sheet. If you did this, that would mean you need to use H h in the game's .mes files, and when the game pulls H h from the font sheet, it will display Д д instead.
Okay, so before all of this, let's ask the main questions: How do you start? What do you need to do? What tools do you need? What specific adjustments are required to be compliant with our project?
All of that is answered in this document. Please read it over. It is long, I know, but it is also very thorough and should answer almost all of your questions.
Virake
I presume this is because I didn't set up the character table, but I don't know which characters were replaced.
IlDucci
Hi, I would like to offer my help in translating Silent Hill 2 into Ukrainian. Fan translations for the original PC version already exist – would it be okay to use them, provided I get their authors' permission? I'm willing to start from scratch, but it would be nice to save some time.
I will of course need the original English text, preferably in a spreadsheet format, but plain text will do. If there are game textures with text in them, it would be great if I could get them in an editable format. For the translation to work, the game must support Cyrillic characters, including those specific to the Ukrainian language (
Іі,Її,Єє,Ґґ).