[Solved] File by language

[DrBreath]

Hi, As it says in the title I wanted to know if there is a way to make files for each language for example:

english_Hints.rpy

spanish_Hints.rpy


I ask this because I have already tried with

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_(" ")

and

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__(" ")

(which by the way I know how to use, it just doesn't work).



Thank you in advance

[Ocelot]

Hi, As it says in the title I wanted to know if there is a way to make files for each language for example:

english_Hints.rpy

spanish_Hints.rpy

You can separate code in files however you like, but all files will be loaded by RenPy at startup. You will have to use translation framework to differentiate them.

I ask this because I have already tried with

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_(" ")

and

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__(" ")

(which by the way I know how to use, it just doesn't work).

Then you are using it wrong, because it works for me.

[m_from_space]

I would recommend reading all of this for making translations:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translation.html

(I'm not sure I get the question, because Renpy will create separate translation files for other languages than the original game language you write the code in.)

[DrBreath]

Hi, As it says in the title I wanted to know if there is a way to make files for each language for example:

english_Hints.rpy

spanish_Hints.rpy

You can separate code in files however you like, but all files will be loaded by RenPy at startup. You will have to use translation framework to differentiate them.

I ask this because I have already tried with

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_(" ")

and

Code: Select all

__(" ")

(which by the way I know how to use, it just doesn't work).

Then you are using it wrong, because it works for me.

Yeah, what happens is that if

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_(" ")

does not work I use the

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__(" ")

(which translates almost everything), but there are some things that although the translation is generated when testing it inside the game, it does not translate.

[DrBreath]

I would recommend reading all of this for making translations:

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translation.html

(I'm not sure I get the question, because Renpy will create separate translation files for other languages than the original game language you write the code in.)

Sorry if it was not understood Dx, what I meant is that translations are generated but when testing the game it does not translate so what I want to do is to create a code for each language instead of generating translation files.

[m_from_space]

Sorry if it was not understood Dx, what I meant is that translations are generated but when testing the game it does not translate so what I want to do is to create a code for each language instead of generating translation files.

What exactly is not working? Dialogue getting translated or other stuff like menus and strings that are not dialogue? If nothing works, then how exactly did you tell Renpy to activate the other language? Can you show some code?

[DrBreath]

Sorry if it was not understood Dx, what I meant is that translations are generated but when testing the game it does not translate so what I want to do is to create a code for each language instead of generating translation files.

What exactly is not working? Dialogue getting translated or other stuff like menus and strings that are not dialogue? If nothing works, then how exactly did you tell Renpy to activate the other language? Can you show some code?

What I can't translate is a menu, the translation is generated but it doesn't work inside the game and as for "how I told" renpy to activate the other language I used the classic one:

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               vbox:
                    style_prefix "radio"
                    label _("Language")
                    textbutton _("English") action Language(None)
                    textbutton _("Spanish") action Language("spanish")

[Ocelot]

Show how do you display your menu.

[m_from_space]

I assume that your menu items are not translated, because you fiddled with the "choice" screen in screens.rpy? Because I did too and had to realize that whenever you add something to your menu entries (like quotation marks or some formatting) and want translation to work, you cannot just do:

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screen choice(items):
    for i in items:
        textbutton "» "+ i.caption + " «" action i.action

But you have to write:

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screen choice(items):
    for i in items:
        textbutton "» [i.caption!t] «" action i.action

[DrBreath]

I assume that your menu items are not translated, because you fiddled with the "choice" screen in screens.rpy? Because I did too and had to realize that whenever you add something to your menu entries (like quotation marks or some formatting) and want translation to work, you cannot just do:

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screen choice(items):
    for i in items:
        textbutton "» "+ i.caption + " «" action i.action

But you have to write:

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screen choice(items):
    for i in items:
        textbutton "» [i.caption!t] «" action i.action

I will try it thank you