Translate the game?

destroycandy · January 5, 2019, 7:51pm

Hey. I am still name. from Tremulous.

I have a question, maybe it is useful or useless or idk. I wanna translate the game for my language (at the moment it is hungarian). It is possible it? If yes how I can do it?

Thanks for answers.

dGr8LookinSparky · January 5, 2019, 9:18pm

Does anyone know of any existing examples of another free and open source software game (preferably id tech based) that supports multiple language translations? We could work on such support from scratch, that is doable, but if another project already did it that would be very useful.

dGr8LookinSparky · January 6, 2019, 7:41pm

@destroycandy , If you would like, you could start translating the game to Hungarian now “informally”. That is start writing down a translation (alongside the english versions and indicating which parts of the game that is taken from), post your work in this thread, and when I get to working on formalizing the game mode system, I could also look into implementing basic support in the code for translations using your work on Hungarian as a prototype. If we get support in the code for translation to one language, then it should be that much more straightforward adding support for other languages.

But again, as I’ve mentioned in my previous post, if someone can find out if other FOSS game projects implemented support for translations, that can at the very least be a helpful reference when doing the actual coding.

There are a lot of different places in the current code that may require translations (although perhaps not all such places require translations, like it might not be necessary to translate all of the error messages, the main thing would be to translate the text related to game play and perhaps the descriptions of commands), and I can point to a lot of the main parts now (we may want to reorganize all of this to better support multi-translation):

The tutorial system:

github.com

GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/cgame/cg_tutorial.c#L24

      
        
            useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
            MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
            GNU General Public License for more details.
            
            
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
            along with Tremulous; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
            
            
===========================================================================
            */
            
            
// cg_tutorial.c -- the tutorial system
            
            
#include "cg_local.h"
            
            
typedef struct
            {
              char      *command;
              char      *humanName;
              keyNum_t  keys[ 2 ];
            } bind_t;

The obituary:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/cgame/cg_event.c#L81

      
        
                    k -= ( k - kls );
                  }
                  *k = 0;
            
            
//      cgs.killMsgMsgTimes[index] = cg.time;
                  k = cgs.killMsgKillers[index];
                  *k = 0;
                  *k++ = Q_COLOR_ESCAPE;
                  *k++ = COLOR_WHITE;
                  klen = 0;
                  kls = NULL;
                  break;
                }
            
            
    if( *killername == ' ' )
                  kls = k;
                else
                  kls = NULL;
            
            
    if(Q_IsColorString(killername)) {
                  const int color_string_len = Q_ColorStringLength(killername);

Center prints from various events:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/cgame/cg_event.c#L949

      
        
            case EV_ALIEN_SPAWN_PROTECTION_ENDED:
              trap_S_StartSound( NULL, es->number, CHAN_BODY, cgs.media.alienEvolveSound );
              {
                particleSystem_t *ps = CG_SpawnNewParticleSystem( cgs.media.alienEvolvePS );
            
            
    if( CG_IsParticleSystemValid( &ps ) )
                {
                  CG_SetAttachmentCent( &ps->attachment, cent );
                  CG_AttachToCent( &ps->attachment );
                }
              }
            
            
  if( es->number == cg.clientNum )
              {
                CG_ResetPainBlend( );
              }
              break;
            
            
case EV_ALIEN_EVOLVE:
              trap_S_StartSound( NULL, es->number, CHAN_BODY, cgs.media.alienEvolveSound );
              {

Menu dialogues:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/cgame/cg_servercmds.c#L617

      
        
                if( ( cgs.humanStage > oldHumanStage ) && !( cgs.warmup ) )
                  CG_AnnounceHumanStageTransistion( oldHumanStage, cgs.humanStage );
              }
              else
              {
                cgs.humanStage = cgs.humanCredits = cgs.humanNextStageThreshold = 0;
              }
            }
            else if( num == CS_LEVEL_START_TIME )
              cgs.levelStartTime = atoi( str );
            else if( num >= CS_VOTE_TIME && num < CS_VOTE_TIME + NUM_TEAMS )
            {
              cgs.voteTime[ num - CS_VOTE_TIME ] = atoi( str );
              cgs.voteAlarmPlay[ num - CS_VOTE_TIME ] = qtrue;
            
            
  if( num - CS_VOTE_TIME == TEAM_NONE )
                trap_Cvar_Set( "ui_voteActive", cgs.voteTime[ TEAM_NONE ] ? "1" : "0" );
              else if( num - CS_VOTE_TIME == TEAM_ALIENS )
                trap_Cvar_Set( "ui_alienTeamVoteActive",
                  cgs.voteTime[ TEAM_ALIENS ] ? "1" : "0" );
              else if( num - CS_VOTE_TIME == TEAM_HUMANS )

Team attributes:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/bg_misc.c#L95

      
        
                "spectator",           //char     *name2;
                "Spectators",          //char     *humanName;
              },
              {
                TEAM_ALIENS,           //int       number;
                "aliens",              //char     *name;
                "alien",               //char     *name2;
                "Aliens",              //char     *humanName;
              },
              {
                TEAM_HUMANS,           //int       number;
                "humans",              //char     *name;
                "human",               //char     *name2;
                "Humans",              //char     *humanName;
              },
            };
            
            
size_t bg_numTeams = ARRAY_LEN( bg_teamList );
            
            
static const teamAttributes_t nullTeam = { 0 };

Buildable attributes descriptions:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/bg_misc.c#L140

      
        
            {
              MOD_BLASTER,             //meansOfDeath_t means_of_death;
              "MOD_BLASTER",           //char           *name;
              MODTYPE_ENERGY,          //mod_type_t     mod_type;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       hit_detected;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       spawn_protected;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       last_spawn_protection;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       friendly_fire_protection;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       can_poison;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       self_radius_damage;
            },
            {
              MOD_PAINSAW,             //meansOfDeath_t means_of_death;
              "MOD_PAINSAW",           //char           *name;
              MODTYPE_ENERGY,          //mod_type_t     mod_type;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       hit_detected;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       spawn_protected;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       last_spawn_protection;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       friendly_fire_protection;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       can_poison;
              qtrue,                   //qboolean       self_radius_damage;

Class attributes descriptions:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/bg_misc.c#L1226

      
        
            qfalse,                //qboolean  activationEnt;
            0,                     //int       activationFlags;
            0,                     //int       occupationFlags;
            PM_NORMAL,             //pmtype_t  activationPm_type;
            CONTENTS_BODY,         //int       activationContents;
            {MASK_PLAYERSOLID, 0}, //int       activationClipMask;
            MGTURRET_RANGE,        //int       turretRange;
            MGTURRET_REPEAT,       //int       turretFireSpeed;
            MGTURRET_ANGULARSPEED, //float     turretAngularSpeed;
            MGTURRET_DCC_ANGULARSPEED, //float     turretDCCAngularSpeed;
            MGTURRET_GRAB_ANGULARSPEED, //float     turretGrabAngularSpeed;
            qtrue,                 //qboolean  turretTrackOnlyOrigin;
            WP_MGTURRET,           //weapon_t  turretProjType;
            0.95f,                 //float     minNormal;
            qfalse,                //qboolean  invertNormal;
            qfalse,                //qboolean  creepTest;
            0,                     //int       creepSize;
            qfalse,                //qboolean  dccTest;
            qtrue,                 //qboolean  transparentTest;
            qfalse,                //qboolean  uniqueTest;
            MGTURRET_VALUE,        //int       value;

Weapon attributes descriptions:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/bg_misc.c#L2846

      
        
            {                   //struct    splatter[1]
              qfalse,           //qboolean               predicted;
              0,                //unsigned int number;
              SPLATP_SPHERICAL_CONE, //splatterPattern_t pattern;
              SPLATD_RANDOM,    //splatterDistribution_t distribution;
              0,                //unsigned int           pitchLayers;
              0,                //float        spread;
              0,                //int          impactDamage;
              0.0f,             //float        impactDamageFalloff;
              0,                //int          impactDamageCap;
              0.0f,             //float        range;
            },
            {                   //struct    splatter[2]
              qfalse,           //qboolean               predicted;
              0,                //unsigned int number;
              SPLATP_SPHERICAL_CONE, //splatterPattern_t pattern;
              SPLATD_RANDOM,    //splatterDistribution_t distribution;
              0,                //unsigned int           pitchLayers;
              0,                //float        spread;
              0,                //int          impactDamage;
              0.0f,             //float        impactDamageFalloff;

Upgrade attributes descriptions:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/bg_misc.c#L4745

      
        
            1,                    //int       ammoUsage2;
            1,                    //int       ammoUsage3;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  allowPartialAmmoUsage;
            0,                    //int       roundPrice;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  ammoPurchasable;
            qtrue,                //int       infiniteAmmo;
            qtrue,                //int       usesEnergy;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  usesBarbs;
            15000,                //int       barbRegenTime;
            WEAPONOPTA_NONE,      //weapon_Option_A_t weaponOptionA;
            0,                    //int       spinUpStartRepeat;
            0,                    //int       spinUpStartSpread;
            0,                    //int       spinUpTime;
            0,                    //int       spinDownTime;
            OVERHEAT_FROM_USE,    //overheatType_t overheatType;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  overheatPrimaryMode;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  overheatAltMode;
            qfalse,               //qboolean  overheatThirdMode;
            0,                    //int       overheatTime;
            0,                    //int       cooldownTime;
            0,                    //int       overheatWeaponDelayTime;

Admin command descriptions:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/game/g_admin.c#L43

      
        
            
            
#include "g_local.h"
            
            
// big ugly global buffer for use with buffered printing of long outputs
            static char g_bfb[ 32000 ];
            
            
// note: list ordered alphabetically
            g_admin_cmd_t g_admin_cmds[ ] =
              {
                {"addlayout", G_admin_addlayout, qfalse, "addlayout",
                  "place layout elements into the game. the elements are specified by a "
                  "union of filtered layouts. the syntax is demonstrated by an example: "
                  "^5reactor,telenode|westside+alien|sewers^7 will place only the "
                  "reactor and telenodes from the westside layout, and also all alien "
                  "layout elements from the sewers layout",
                  "[^3layoutelements^7]"
                },
            
            
    {"adjustban", G_admin_adjustban, qfalse, "ban",
                  "change the IP address mask, duration or reason of a ban.  mask is "
                  "prefixed with '/'.  duration is specified as numbers followed by units "

Center prints throughout the game logic (found wherever the centerPrintImportance enumerations are used https://github.com/GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/a49517b687599b5ce65314b1aad95719ae9c0cd5/src/game/bg_public.h#L1778 )
Com_Printf(), Com_Error(), Com_Assert, functions used throughout the code (both in the game logic and game engine, client included).
A lot of instances of SV_GameSendServerCommand() used throughout the game module (center prints originating from the game module are a subset of that).
G_LogPrintf() used throughout the game module for saving text to the server game logs.
CG_Printf() used throughout the cgame module.
Text related to the HUD can be found throughout cg_draw.c:

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GrangerHub/tremulous-game-logic/blob/develop/src/cgame/cg_draw.c#L25

      
        
            useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
            MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
            GNU General Public License for more details.
            
            
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
            along with Tremulous; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
            
            
===========================================================================
            */
            
            
// cg_draw.c -- draw all of the graphical elements during
            // active (after loading) gameplay
            
            

            
#include "cg_local.h"
            #include "../ui/ui_shared.h"
            
            
menuDef_t *menuScoreboard = NULL;
            
            
static void CG_AlignText( rectDef_t *rect, const char *text, float scale,
                                      float w, float h,

Various assets related to the menus:

Helper_Bot · January 7, 2019, 12:33am

I don’t think I’ve actually seen a quake program that supports language translation. I tried looking around

destroycandy · January 8, 2019, 5:26pm

Sorry for late answer, but my free time is = 0.
A question. Can I put UTF-8 symbols? Like á, é, ü, ő, ú í

dGr8LookinSparky · January 9, 2019, 2:47am

Currently Tremulous 1.3 doesn’t support non-ascii characters. However, the OpenWolf-Engine that @TheDushan has been working on ( GitHub - GrangerHub/OpenWolf-Engine ), that we intend on moving to for versions after 1.3, does support UTF-8. If we don’t implement UTF-8 support in Tremulous 1.3, that would limit the extent to the translations we can have in 1.3, however we could still implement something basic that works with ascii in 1.3, and expand that further when we move to OpenWolf (or we could start with a translation system directly on OpenWolf skipping that support for 1.3).

destroycandy · January 9, 2019, 7:55am

Ok thanks. Then I will be back later.