Can we use REDKit for translation of the main game ?

[ldkv]

Can we use REDKit for translation of the main game ?

As the title said, I would like to ask if REDKit can provide some support to the translation of the game ?

As of now, all I can do is to decode the w2strings file to translate, but this took me a lot of time to do, especially when I can't know who speaks what just by looking at the code. So it would be really great if REDKit (or any other tool that I may not know) can help with the translation.

Could someone give me some direction please?

Thank you in advance

 

[Milgo]

What do you want to translate? The Witcher 2 is already translated into many languages. And atm you cannot create a connection between a npc and a voicestring (I trieb).

 

[shak-otay]

As of now, all I can do is to decode the w2strings file to translate, but this took me a lot of time to do, especially when I can't know who speaks what just by looking at the code.

You need this to create speech files, do you?

I know how to find the voice tag for a text id manually, for example in de0.xml:
for
<text id="35225">Als du Temerien vor dem Grossmeister und seinen Mutanten gerettet hast,

I find JASKIER as a voice tag:


(0x8999 = 35225d)

But maybe some expert does have a better solution.

If not I could think about coding a tool to create a text id - voice tag table.
But atm I'm very busy. (as always)

 

[adridu59]

Maybe opening REDstring tool would help.

 

[ldkv]

Thank you for all the reply. Maybe I didn't explain it well, let me rephrase my question.

What I want to do is to translate the original game into my native language (Vietnamese) by using the method explained at the end of this site http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Extracting_The_Witcher_2_files .

What I have been doing up until now is:
1/ Watch walkthrough video and take note of what the characters are saying
2/ Search for this phrase in the en0.xml file to locate its text_ID
3/ Translate the phrase and encode it back into en0.w2strings file

This method took me a lot of time so I would like to ask if the REDKit tool has any feature to help with this ? Or is there any other tools/methods that help to accelerate my progress ?

I know it is quite late to translate the game now, so I hope to finish it asap, so that my friends can replay the game before enjoy the 3rd one

 

[ldkv]

Hello, can anyone help me with this please?

You need this to create speech files, do you?

I know how to find the voice tag for a text id manually, for example in de0.xml:
for
<text id="35225">Als du Temerien vor dem Grossmeister und seinen Mutanten gerettet hast,

I find JASKIER as a voice tag:


(0x8999 = 35225d)

But maybe some expert does have a better solution.

If not I could think about coding a tool to create a text id - voice tag table.
But atm I'm very busy. (as always)

Hey skak-otay, could you please tell me what tool you used to see that voicetag?

 

[shak-otay]

Hey s[h]ak-otay, could you please tell me what tool you used to see that voicetag?

It's HexEdit 1.11. You can use any Hex editor for displaying.
But to find the voicetags you need a Hex editor which is capable to do a binary search in files (in *.w2scene files in this case).
You might use WinHex for this.

But you'll experience ambiguous finds. So you'll have to modify the search pattern such as [lowbyte textID] [highhbyte textID] 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3F FF for example (3F being a wildcard!)

 

[adridu59]

REDStrings, use this

 

[shak-otay]

REDStrings, use this

How?
As far as I can see there is (for example) no voice tag JASKIER (uppercase!) in base.sqlite

 

[Milgo]

How?
As far as I can see there is (for example) no voice tag JASKIER (uppercase!) in base.sqlite

Yep, you're write. shak-otay, do you have some time to help me to implement a connection between voicestrings and persons in my RedSpeaker?

 

[shak-otay]

Yep, you're write. shak-otay, do you have some time to help me to implement a connection between voicestrings and persons in my RedSpeaker?

As far as I can help I will try to.

 

[ldkv]

Thank you for all your help, I will try RedStrings and HexEditor and see If I can do something

 

[adridu59]

REDStrings is the localization tool of REDkit, I thikn you should be able to edit dialogs then cook level and fetch the strings file.

 

[Milgo]

As far as I can help I will try to.

Do you have icq or something similar? Maybe write me at xxx[at]yyy.zzz.