Multilingual game

[Leaden]

Aloha, people!

I seeking best way to make and support more than two languages in visual novel. There I found some interesting solutions, but no one of them didn't solve major problem: it's better for translators to separate literary text and script commands. Especially good thing is to make text files for each language. But how?

[JinzouTamashii]

Make a new text file and name it English.rpy and French.rpy for each one, perhaps?

[Alex]

Привет! (hi)
Mmm, you can try this http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=8&t=5814
Downloadable sample has comments in the code, so the part of it might be useful for you.
P.S. take it as my self-advertising...))

[JinzouTamashii]

I bet that's just what Leaden wanted.

[Leaden]

Make a new text file and name it English.rpy and French.rpy for each one, perhaps?

It's simple and reliable method, but only when your game finalized on one language and then translating into others. In other cases every change in script will multiply on amount of supported languages.

[Leaden]

Привет! (hi)
Mmm, you can try this http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=8&t=5814
Downloadable sample has comments in the code, so the part of it might be useful for you.
P.S. take it as my self-advertising...))

Здравствуй, товарищ!
Thanks for example. There some intresting ideas, but in general this solution not suitable. Binding to string numbers not flexible and don't allow to insert comments for tranlators and readability. And this example works on very simple game: linear, without pictures, characters, menus. Sorry, but I want more )

[Leaden]

May be one of 189 games on RenPy have that feature that I talked about?

[Alex]

And this example works on very simple game: linear, without pictures, characters, menus.

?!
everything can be included as usual... if you still interested in more comments about it you can mail me Lex__2007@mail.ru

[Leaden]

And this example works on very simple game: linear, without pictures, characters, menus.

?!
everything can be included as usual... if you still interested in more comments about it you can mail me Lex__2007@mail.ru

Theoreticaly yes, but try this on practise Update you example with dialog tree and you will see what I'm worry for.
And I like to stay in public discussion, because it may be useful for someone else.

[Alex]

Theoreticaly yes, but try this on practise

Well, for example - slightly modified "The question" (sorry, this one once again)
http://rapidshare.com/files/299279550/t ... transl.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/299280222/t ... 86.tar.bz2
http://rapidshare.com/files/299280773/t ... sl-mac.zip
In preferences you can change game language.
I believe you can easily add another translation (make "lang2.txt" and "Translated__3.rpy" and place them in game folder)
Here it is a part of code:

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... ... ...
# The game starts here.
label start:

    scene black
    call after_load from _after_load_2
    
    $ bl_game = False
    
    play music "illurock.ogg"

    scene bg lecturehall
    with fade

    $ q (None, 5)
    $ q (None, 6)
    $ q (None, 7)
    $ q (None, 8)
    $ q (None, 9)
    
    scene bg uni
    with fade

    $ q (None, 10)
    
    show sylvie normal
    with dissolve
    
    $ q (None, 11)
    $ q (None, 12)
    $ q (None, 13)
    $ q (None, 14)
    $ q (None, 15)
    $ q (None, 16)
    $ q (None, 17)
    $ q (None, 18)
    $ q (None, 19)
    
    $ menu_0 = ph[lang][20]
    $ menu_1 = ph[lang][21]

    menu:

        "%(menu_0)s":
        
            jump rightaway
            
        "%(menu_1)s":
        
            jump later
       ... ... ...

[Papaxibe]

Well, well... I have the same problem, Leaden.

After all my hard work developing the script in Portuguese, how make the game become multilingual? I don't know if my solution is a good way... but it is a soft solution.

1st step:

Insert into file \renpy\config.py the following variable:

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current_idiom = 0

2nd step:

Edit the file \renpy\display\text.py, the code of all the text showed in the screen:

about the line 897:

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        tokens = [ ]
        for l in self.tokens:
            tokens.extend(l)

        ti = iter(tokens)
        
        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        ##begin of multilingual code
        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------

        if ("tag", "t") in tokens:
            
            if renpy.config.current_idiom == 0:
                
                tsl[-1].size = self.style.size
                
            else:
                
                tsl[-1].size = 0
                
            tsl[-1].update()

        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        ##end of multilingual code
        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------

        for kind, i in ti:

            # Newline.
            if kind == "newline":
                triples.append(("newline", tsl[-1], ""))                
                continue

about the line 1025:

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                    tsl[-1].strikethrough = style.strikethrough
                    tsl[-1].color = style.color
                    tsl[-1].black_color = style.black_color
                    tsl[-1].update()

        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        ##begin of multilingual code
        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                elif i == "t":
                    
                    if renpy.config.current_idiom == 0:
                    
                        tsl[-1].size = 0
                        
                    else:
                        
                        tsl[-1].size = self.style.size

                    tsl[-1].update()

        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------
        ##end of multilingual code
        ##---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                elif i.startswith("font"):

                    m = re.match(r'font=(.*)', i)

3rd Step:

Now, you must add the tag {t}translated text{/t} into your script, everywhere you want change the idiom.

Example, The Question:

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# The game starts here.
label start:

    $ config.current_idiom = 1 ## this line change the idiom to Portuguese

    $ bl_game = False
    
    play music "illurock.ogg"

    scene bg lecturehall
    with fade

    "Well, professor Eileen's lecture was interesting.{t}Bem, a palestra da professora Eileen foi interessante.{/t}"
    "But to be honest, I couldn't concentrate on it very much.{t}Mas para ser bem honesto, Eu não consegui me concentrar muito bem.{/t}"
    "I had a lot of other thoughts on my mind.{t}Estava pensando em muitas outras coisas.{/t}"
    "And they all ended up with a question.{t}E todas acabavam numa pergunta.{/t}"
    "A question, I've been meaning to ask someone.{t}Uma pergunta, que eu terei de fazer à alguém.{/t}"

    scene bg uni
    with fade

We can create any type of handler to change the idiom, just change the value of the config variable current_idiom change the idiom of the text.

I know, edit the code of text.py isn't good, because you may have instable behavior, and a future release doesn't complain your changes.

Thanks for attention!

Papaxibé