🌎 How to translate the game

VerMishelb · May 6, 2021, 6:19pm

Weird pi is here because in Teko font (even in original) it’s modified, so the game takes it from there. Other characters are being taken from standard system font (most likely Arial).

Are these all the characters you need?

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TWEL · May 6, 2021, 6:29pm

Yeah they sure are, although the rest of the characters in greek look fine. Not as clean as the latin ones but good enough (probably because it’s just Arial), and they are consistent. It’s just π that looks weird, surprisingly.

VerMishelb · May 6, 2021, 6:32pm

I might try making Teko versions of these and putting them in the font later.

TWEL · May 6, 2021, 7:28pm

Let me know if you’ll need help with that

InterAction_studios · May 7, 2021, 8:26am

I’ll remove this letter from the font in the next update, so the engine will fall back to Fira Sans for all Greek letters (making them consistent – numbers will still look off, though)

I can’t get directly involved, however to help out I’m linking to the original CI4 Greek (and other) translations to use as a reference. I’ve also added this section to the instructions:

SAMPLE TRANSLATIONS FROM PREVIOUS GAMES

To help with getting started and to use as a reference for consistency (a lot of the phrases are common), here are the CI4 and CI5 translations (note that the translation rules for these games were different, so only use them as guidelines and not as hard-and-fast rules):

TWEL · May 7, 2021, 11:31am

Okay this helps a ton, thank you!

TWEL · May 7, 2021, 12:26pm

Now, as a general rule of thumb, is it better for us to refer to these translations or should we use our own, if we think we got something better (particularly in regards to some of the wordplay)?
ˢᶦᵈᵉⁿᵒᵗᵉ: ᴵ ᵃᵖᵒˡᵒᵍᶦᶻᵉ ᶦᶠ ᴵ’ᵐ ᵐᵃᵏᶦⁿᵍ ᵗᵒᵒ ᵐᵃⁿʸ ʳᵉᵖˡᶦᵉˢ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵛᵉʳʸ ᵘˢᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᶠᵒʳᵘᵐˢ.

VerMishelb · May 7, 2021, 12:30pm

If you think something looks better than in episodes’ translation, use the better variant. If other translator won’t be ok with your version they’ll provide their own.

Francis · May 7, 2021, 12:41pm

iA, do you happen to have the CI5 Italian one? Just for archivial purposes.

InterAction_studios · May 7, 2021, 12:55pm

If you think you have a better translation, then by all means use it. Refer to CI4/CI5 only if you get stuck, or if you want to see how a particular wave/weapon/enemy/etc was translated in previous games.

I’ve added more languages to the list. However, Excel files may NOT exactly match the text in the actual game (because they undergo a transformation before the game can use them, and also because translations change constantly and I might have made minor corrections to the game text without updating the Excel).

Randomkodude · May 7, 2021, 1:45pm

didn’t know CI4 doesn’t have a balkan translation. Is there a way to change that by chance?

InterAction_studios · May 7, 2021, 2:43pm

No, I can’t justify any effort to arrange, QA, and integrate new languages.

Also, CI1-CI5 characters are textures, so it’s very painful to add new alphabets/codepages.

InterAction_studios · May 7, 2021, 2:44pm

Current translation stats:

100.0000	tr
100.0000	pl
100.0000	bg
100.0000	he
100.0000	vi
100.0000	ru
100.0000	it
99.9539	sr
99.7232	zh
99.5849	ro
95.7565	fa
91.1439	es
85.3782	fr
79.7509	hu
77.4446	id
73.8930	el
63.8838	ca
56.8266	de
51.5683	bs
45.2491	pt
38.6070	lt
35.6089	th
31.5037	ar
31.4576	ja
23.5240	sk
16.8819	tl
15.4982	cs
13.2380	ur

Piotrek1113 · May 7, 2021, 3:05pm

You just didn’t count the untranslatable stuff this time, right?

InterAction_studios · May 7, 2021, 3:11pm

I made some adjustments to keep OCD people happy

The table is already outdated anyway, since v81 has added more new phrases.

Piotrek1113 · May 7, 2021, 3:15pm

snaps fingers
I’m ready for this

TWEL · May 8, 2021, 10:35am

Quick bug report: text goes off screen in the fleet customization screen under “Exhaust additive magic”
(Probably only a big issue for the greek language because of how wide the letters are)

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hale · May 8, 2021, 2:32pm

hmmm, interesting. BG is 100%.
It’s kind of weird, since I just logged in to translate the new additions. I haven’t done them myself. :Д

I can’t wait to see the satellite tutorial after the fix.

@InterAction_studios is it possible to tell me what was added in this update, so i can double check it? sorry to trouble you, but I can’t find it myself.

Also, is it possible to add a sorting criteria which indexes new text additions? even if they are translated
It’s not complex: new additions need to be tracked until new stuff gets added. the previous text gets unindexed, since it is considered old, therefore it does not appear anymore. If there are no new additions, do nothing (by that I mean nothing gets changed).

It’s gonna be annoying to sift through the entire text base on the off chance I remember i haven’t seen something before.

InterAction_studios · May 9, 2021, 9:06am

Fixed in v.81

I don’t keep a history of text changes, so I don’t know.

AmirMohammad.as · May 10, 2021, 1:05pm

1.link is not working!

2.can we have our language for other games?
(we’ll translate it again)