Obitus translation need help for German & Italian

[CFou!]

Hi,

I am near to finishing beta update of Obitus:
+ rawdic imager (+support for NTSC)
+ trainer
+ splash config window

With help for french translation of DLFRSILVER, i'am finishing tools for translation (attached)

it's working with included beta slave version.
You can compile yourself easily your langage file.

However, special characters and accents are possible now wirth some limitation.
updated: special characters are possibles with some limitations
(see:https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=11
and https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=12 for fonts editor)

Text length limitations are indicated at the beginning of the 8 files to be translated.

The final file can be compacted with the formats natively supported by WHDLoad, but this is not necessary.

There is not much text to translate.

French translation and being finalized and verified by Denis (thanks to him.

Would anyone be interested in the following translations:

- Italian (affected to SimonPPC) 100%
- French (affected to DLFRSilver) 100 %
- german (converted PC text) 100%
- spanish (converted PC text) 100%

(others languages are possible on request, if there are person to do the work)

I would like to include these translations in the Obitus Whdload package as I did for Liquid Kids?

Merry Christmas

Released on 01/01/2020:
http://www.whdload.de/games/Obitus.html

[CFou!]

test8

[CFou!]

Test9

[SimonPPC]

If you provide me with the material in private, I can translate it into Italian

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by SimonPPC

If you provide me with the material in private, I can translate it into Italian

great.

DLSYLVER is verifying and testing french translation today.

the biggest constraint is that some texts must not exceed a certain length.

there are 8 files to translate and each one has its own constraints in terms of text or name length.

Denis is currently annotating these opposites according to the problems encountered during the French version test.

if you exceed the text you will have a bug like on the image which is attached.

before posting here the tools to translate the italian version, I will make another post with screenshots of display example for each of the 8 files.

This will make it easier to understand what the texts are for and what the constraints are.

I remind the accents and special characters are not possible.

[SimonPPC]

Ok... very good...

[CFou!]

here example of TXT1:


here example of TXT2:


here example of TXT3:


here example of TXT4 &TXT6:


here example of TXT5 & TXT6:


here example of TXT5 & ITEMS:

[CFou!]

attached file to translate in italian

Obviously only the texts between two quotes must be translated in the following 8 files:
"Obitus-IT-Items.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT1.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT2.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT3.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT4.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT5.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT6.s"
"Obitus-IT-TXT7.s"

You can create the final file "ObitusIT.bin" by compiling the file "Make_Obitus_IT_File.asm" with BARFly and test the result yourself in game.

But, if you don't have BARFly or the skills on this subject, post the eight translated files here and I will create an ObitusIT.Bin file that you can test with the "whdload's slave" also attached in the archive

inluded slave beta readme:

version 1.2g (xx.12.2019) done by CFou!
- patcher imager adapted for RAWDic
- source code rewritten, adapted for WHDLoad 17+ and included
- Ntsc version support added
- game loader fixed (track length was bugged)
- intro cpu stacks relocated
- Custom trainer added
CUSTOM1=1 : Unlimited power
CUSTOM1=2 : In game cheat keys
CUSTOM1=3 : Unlimited power & In game cheat keys

F1: To give arrows | F2: To give daggers
F3: To give apples | F4: To give torches
- Translation support added via custom2 tooltype
CUSTOM2=0 :default
CUSTOM2=1 :French
CUSTOM2=2 :Italian
CUSTOM2=3 :English (Alternative translation)

[malko]

Nice work guys !
By "no special character" do you mean : only Latin alphabet ?

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by malko

Nice work guys !
By "no special character" do you mean : only Latin alphabet ?

yes ,

there are no place in bitmap fonts to add accents or special caracters:
here memory dump of supported characters (in fact ascii 32 to 122):

[CFou!]

solution might be to replace by example:
[ for é
] for è
\ for ê
@ for à
$ for ù

or other spécial caracter used in special language.

If sompebody is interested to rewrite fonts i can dump all fonts in raw format..

A special font could be used by langage.
by example:
ObitusGB-font
ObitusGB-font1
ObitusGB-font2
ObitusGB-font3
ObitusFR-font
ObitusGB-font
ObitusGB-font1
...

updated:
3 Obitus fonts attached:

[CFou!]

moreover online amiga font editor can be used:
Amiga RAW font editor online

here example to load raw obitus-font0-c00e (parame X=16 Y=9 module=0 Bitplane=1)


here example to load Raw obitus-font1-c6d0 (parame X=16 Y=8 module=0 Bitplane=1)


here example to load Raw obitus-font2-ccde (parame X=16 Y=8 module=0 Bitplane=1)



exemple of accents:
(for test ()* replaced by éèà)

[SimonPPC]

I have translate the first file for testing!!!

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by SimonPPC

I have translate the first file for testing!!!

it works perfectly here !!
I tested with several save games.
you have followed the instructions, no object text has more than 19 letters. Perfect!

so it should work for all objects.

I am attaching a new beta version which supports the Italian file and the compiled language file.

So you can see the result yourself .

[SimonPPC]

So is it now possible to use accented letters?

[CFou!]

yes,
and different fonts can by created by language.

but with limitation
already french fonts created

but you need (for french) use:
[ for é
] for è
\ for ê
$ for ù
@ for à (but and automatique space created after by original code so i'll soon replace it by another character by example: ^)

what are the main accents you need for Italian?
(I probably wouldn't have enougth sapce to put them all because I have to replace existing special characters.)

see here for only ascii supported characters (32 to 122):
https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=10

[SimonPPC]

In Italian I need the following accented letters:

à è ì ò ù

simply

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by SimonPPC

In Italian I need the following accented letters:

à è ì ò ù

simply

ok,

5 accents is possible!!.

so you can use accents in your traduction but only (à è ì ò ù).

I will do after the conversion (perhaps automaticaly) and will created tommorow italien fonts with (à è ì ò ù).

ps:
I remind you that to translate the files there are size limits per line (not same by file to translate).
Sometimes it will take a little imagination to reformulate and not exceed the maximum size.

In case of overflow => graphics bug ...

[SimonPPC]

Of course ... on Sunday I will carry on with the translation ... then we'll do beta-testing to understand where I'm wrong.
It is not the first time that I adapt a video game in Italian so I know some tricks hihihihi

[CFou!]

italian fonts created.

joined italian fonts & slave with accents support for french and test version for italian