[Faldrath]

Hola,

First of all, sorry for writing in English. I'm Brazilian, I can read Spanish but I can't write in Spanish. I hope it isn't a problem.

I have just finished translating Baldur's Gate II into Portuguese (this is my website, in case anyone is interested), and now I plan to translate Planescape: Torment. However, Torment has an additional difficulty: there are very important cutscenes (like the ones with The Transcendent One) that have no subtitles, only spoken lines.

So I wonder how you solved this problem. My guess is that I'd have to add a few "DisplayStringHead" commands in the appropriate .bcs files and add some entries in dialog.tlk, but since I've never edited .bcs files, I'm unsure about what to do.

I used NearInfinity to translate BG2, and I'm pretty knowledgeable about the game's file types. If anyone has any tips or information I could use, I'd be grateful.

Oh, and another little thing: does Torment need dialogf.tlk? The Restoration Pack adds one, but I thought it would be useless, since The Nameless One is male, and dialogf.tlk is only useful for female PCs, right?

Gracias,

Faldrath

[Mhoram]

Hola

Editar tambien los bcs es una buena idea, no se nos habia ocurrido a nosotros y de esa forma podrias subtitular las escenas, en cuanto a como hacerlo, pues en vez de usar NI yo usaria weidu, de esa forma siempre puedes desinstalar, o reinstalar o asegurarte la compatibilidad con otros posibles mods...

Además es muy facil.

[Immortality]

Hi!!

Nope, Torment doesnt need a dialogf.tlk cos the main character is always male: Nameless One.

About the cutscenes... i honestly have no idea if we subtitled them or not... : s

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

[Faldrath]

Thanks for the quick replies, guys

About the cutscenes, I really feel they should be translated. The ones with The Transcendent One are very important to the plot. There are a few "flavor" lines without translation as well (like the ones when Annah and Grace first enter Fell's shop), which I'll try to translate as well, if possible. About using WeiDU, well, after 3 years using NearInfinity to translate I'm really really used to it I think it also has the advantage of allowing me to quickly search DLGs, CREs, ITMs, SPLs, etc. to know what the string entry refers to (for instance, if I can't find out who said "I don't know" in string, say, 34423, all I have to do is "search for references" and it will give me keldornj.dlg as a result. I think this is very useful).

But if you find out how to subtitle using WeiDU, please let me know. I'll report my progress using NI as well

About dialogf.tlk: that's what I thought as well. What puzzles me is that the Restoration Pack includes a dialogf.tlk - and in English. Why is that?

[Faldrath]

The research on cutscenes is going well. I think I'll soon have some results to report

But I have another little doubt: how does the game know which color to use for item descriptions? Bandages, for instance, have the standard yellow description but also white notes (about their usage). I cannot find anything in the .itm file nor in the string ref to set the colors. Or is the word "NOTE" hardcoded? Or is it something else?

[Faldrath]

[double post, sorry]

Este post ha sido editado por Faldrath: 12 September 2005 - 01:39 PM

[Faldrath]

Yay, it works



I still have some more testing to do, but things look promising

[Mhoram]

Great work!, by the way, i think the Note word is hardcoded, instructions not, but the Note Word yes.

[Faldrath]

Thanks

So, cutscenes work. I've just tested the little one when Annah and Morte bicker about Grace joining the party, and everything went smoothly. Now I need to edit the other .bcs files, and make a couple more tests (with the Transcendent One).

The next step would be to add subtitles to NPC banter (those little lines NPCs say to each other, or their comments on different locations, etc.). But I still haven't found out how to do it - I don't even know if it's possible.

[Faldrath]

Cutscenes definitely work Now I'm working on party banter, which is more complicated, but I think that in a week or so I may have some good results.

Would you be interested in these edited cutscenes? All you'd need to do would be to add some entries to dialog.tlk (and maybe edit the string numbers in the cutscenes, if they're different from mine - I'm using the Restoration Pack).

[Mhoram]

of course we are interested, thanks. And there´s no problem, weidu will add the new strings and put the correct ref without any problem.

Can you send us the cutscenes strings inm english as well?? Is easy to extract them with NI

[palafoxx]

Wow, Faldrath, we thinked on those elusive cutscenes since translation was over. We have not able to locate some banters that were off dialog.tlk If you could solve both big problems, translation's game will be improved at maximum. Goooood work

[Faldrath]

Well, the cutscenes are ready and mostly tested. Where should I send them to?

As for the banter, I've sort of given up on them for now. It'd be a bit complicated to write new .bcs's for them, and, during my recent playthrough of the game, I really didn't hear much banter at all. So I don't really know if it'd be worth it... who knows, if I get in some sort of translating frenzy in the future, I might give it another go

[Mhoram]

I´ve never ear a lot of banters too.

mhoram@clandlan.net for the cutscenes, thanks faldrath, anything special for the credits??

[Immortality]

Wow, Faldrath, thats a great discovery!
Thanks a lot!!