Italian Traslation !

Welcome on board SpawnPPC

X3N0-Life-Form wrote:

I'd suggest asking user Luke for advice: he is the leader of the german translation project.

Not the leader for the whole project, only for the tech part... but this is definitely enough work.

@SpawnPPC
I answer your question from PM here: Yes you can. But i am very busy with our own translation project and WCS+ development (and WCS tools), so you must have patience.

Like X3N0 said, a translation for WCS is really a big thing:

• First you need the basics. Follow X3N0's links and learn the FSO modding basics, you need this!
• You can't do this alone, you need a team. Thrust me.
• One of the biggest problems is: WCS original isn't fully translatable, you need WCS+ (which is still in development). And i have done several changes to the engine for german language, so i think the same work (and maybe more) must done for other languages.

But for now, you must manage the first point, then we can speak about details. First learn to extract the complete WCS files, these are fully extracted 24 folders and more than 24.000 files. Then try to translate one mission. One tip: don't add another language section in strings.tbl, simply use the english section for testing, because WCS only knows English and German.

Edit: you can't donate, because we can not make any money with WCS because "Wing Commander" is property of "Electronic Arts".

WCS have nothing to do with .tre files, you need the correct tools for it. Sorry for asking you that, but have you really read what we - espacially X3N0 - wrote? If you follow his links, you will find the correct tools very easy for extracting all game data and for editing the mission files. BTW, you dont need the mission designer for make translations, a good text editor does the job also.

You must learn the modding basics, you can't circumvent this fact. There is no simple WCS/FSO-Translation-Tool. Or you search for a WCS/FSO modder who will do this job for you. As i said before, you can't do it alone, you need minimum 1 translator (better 2-3) and minimum 1 modder (better 2) and also some testers. For only one guy a WCS translation project is nearly impossible.

Hi SpawnPPC

Again, translation of WCS and other WC Games isn't that easy you maybe think. A game like WCS is VERY complex and there are a lot of different areas to translate and a lot of work on mod level. Before we started the german translation project last year on wingcenter.net i had absolutely no experience with game modding or game programming. I haven't asked the WCS Team for help. I learned all what i need for our translation project from scratch... alone. HLP is a good place to learn the basics.

I am a programmer too (since 30 years now) and i am very busy with our own translation project and the WCS+ project. I have no time to teach the modding basics, sorry. If you are not willing to spend time to learn it, then you will never realize your project. Or you try to find a FSO modder who can do the job for you. That's exactly the way we are going with the german translation. The main translator have no modding or programming skills, this is my job.

Maybe this sounds a bit harsh, sorry. But this is the situation.

It's very simple: Learn the basics or find a modder for this job.