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xNWP / Cinema-4D-Source-Tools

Cinema 4D Plugin for importing, exporting, and manipulating filetypes created by Valve Corporation's Source Engine.
MIT License
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How to open the cdl64 file of cinema4d for editing #9

Closed Mixiaxiaoyu closed 5 years ago

Mixiaxiaoyu commented 5 years ago

I want to open a cinema 4d cdl64 file because I want to translate some of the text myself!

xNWP commented 5 years ago

Hi @Mixiaxiaoyu ,

To translate the plugin you can do this by translating all the text in the "string tables". These are located under the res/string_us folder and have a .str suffix, they can be opened by any text editor. Make a duplicate of the folder and change the country code (us is the default) to the country of your choosing (here's a utility for finding your country code: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/). So for example, translating to Russian would mean you create a folder called strings_ru. Any string entries that have the comment DNT means "Do Not Translate".

If you wanted to release this translation (or have it included officially in later releases), you might want to wait for some time as I am actually completely rewriting the plugin for the latest version of Cinema 4D (how long this will take is going to depend on my school schedule unfortunately). So all current strings will not be used in future releases.