🌎 How to translate the game

[VerMishelb]

@InterAction_studios If the translator’s name field ended up being unused, why is it still in place?
(And is the translation of demo texts and game description going to be used?)

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After having some discussion in CID, can the highlighted text from the player itself be yellow, even for CIU and even if the high-contrast mode is on? Yellow is very visible by itself and this

is quite unnoticeable. Besides, it seems to confuse people, as every other highlighted text was yellow.
I was also mentioning an issue with the current default font colour having too little contrast with default buttons by definition, so either of these should probably be changed.

Just to prove the point, compare the contrast from v5 with the current one:

Summary

[InterAction_studios]

@VerMishelb

even though I edited the entire CI5 section, some of those lines that didn’t have any text at all before I wrote them were shown as “Approve the existing translation” the next day

I’m assuming you were logged in using the same game account both times?

If this happens again, do not make any changes, but rather DM me immediately so I can have a look.

@VerMishelb

The space should not be there, in the beginning

Fixed in v.140

@ordinary_ryxt

i’d prefer to have official translators for these

@ans1382

can the main translators be selected

I’m working on this

@VerMishelb

This section doesn’t mention the brackets [[thing]] to highlight text that’s not highlit in the original translation

I’ll add this

@VerMishelb

how much time do we have to work on episodes translations

A couple of months, at least. I’ll notify well before the translations are “frozen”.

@KnockoffFeline

There shouldn’t be an “a” before the length value

Fixed in v.140

@VerMishelb

If the translator’s name field ended up being unused, why is it still in place?

It might be needed in the future, when official translators are selected

@VerMishelb

And is the translation of demo texts and game description going to be used

I’ve removed some unnecessary upsell text, but the rest will be used. There will be changes to that section until CI2U comes out, so don’t bother too much with it yet.

@VerMishelb

can the highlighted text from the player itself be yellow

Changed in v.140 Idea

@VerMishelb

current default font colour having too little contrast with default buttons by definition

Changed in v.140 Idea

[VerMishelb]

@InterAction_studios

I’m assuming you were logged in using the same game account both times?

It was entirely my fault. I broke the formatting, therefore the line didn’t save, then it decided to show me the “Approve existing translation” button, perhaps because the existing translation is empty.

[VerMishelb]

@InterAction_studios

Changed in v.140 Idea

Give the medal to Madder, he is the one who had issues with highlighted text, trying to understand why it is not yellow.

[ans1382]

@InterAction_studios

I’m working on this

Best news I’ve read.

[InterAction_studios]

@VerMishelb

Give the medal to Madder

Who?

[VerMishelb]

Madder, that’s his in-game callsign. He is in CID only.

[InterAction_studios]

Ok, done.

[InterAction_studios]

I’ve also created a separate post about official translators here: 🌎 Official translators wanted

Questions/discussion about that should be posted here.

[Viola]

i seem to have found a few bugs currently present in the translation menu:

• on the “Recently seen (all)” menu, if one makes a translation for a string that wasn’t previously translated, scrolls to another page, then scrolls back, the newly translated string will have the “Approve existing translation” button next to it as if it was created by another player. This doesn’t appear to happen with any of the other menus, although I haven’t tested it for the Related menu
• when opening the translation menu during a mission, upon closing it the player ship gets teleported to wherever the cursor was upon closing the menu, potentially causing a lost life
• highlighting text seems to be buggy, and often doesn’t work at all, though I’ve been unable to figure out any patterns to when it works and when it doesn’t or how to cause the bug

[KnockoffFeline]

@Viola

the newly translated string will have the “Approve existing translation” button next to it as if it was created by another player.

It is possible that you have not included the exact amount of |, $ and ^ characters in that phrase. See if there is any error below the translated phrase’s field after clicking on it, and follow its instructions.

@Viola

when opening the translation menu during a mission, upon closing it the player ship gets teleported to wherever the cursor was upon closing the menu

Known. Pause the mission beforehand.

@Viola

highlighting text seems to be buggy, and often doesn’t work at all

Also known:

@InterAction_studios

you can make custom text bold by enclosing it in double brackets [[bold text]]. Note that not all phrases support this (for example , quips do, but button captions do not). There’s no way to tell in advance – experiment.

[VerMishelb]

@Viola

will have the “Approve existing translation” button next to it as if it was created by another player

The last time that happened to me it was a formatting error, I put an incorrect amount of the pipe | characters. Check your lines for this.

@Viola

the player ship gets teleported to wherever the cursor was upon closing the menu

Pretty sure this was a known thing. There is also that annoying issue that “capture mouse” doesn’t let you move the mouse all the way down to the bottom field. It’s still clickable, however.

@Viola

highlighting text seems to be buggy, and often doesn’t work at all

Do you have the high contrast mode enabled?

[VerMishelb]

I don’t know how I was missing that all that time and I could not find whether it was reported because “the search item is too short”, but apparently you can’t translate kg and km.

[Viola]

@VerMishelb

The last time that happened to me it was a formatting error, I put an incorrect amount of the pipe | characters. Check your lines for this.

oh yeah, that might be it, tried doing it again and it only happens on strings with $ and | characters

@VerMishelb

Pretty sure this was a known thing. There is also that annoying issue that “capture mouse” doesn’t let you move the mouse all the way down to the bottom field. It’s still clickable, however.

i think i remember it happening with the regular pause menu at some point in the past too, don’t think i’ve seen it reported for the translation menu as well though. it’s not on the known bugs list at least, but i haven’t looked through all of the replies in this thread

@VerMishelb

Do you have the high contrast mode enabled?

i don’t, but by highlighting i meant highlighting text with your cursor to copy-and-paste it between different strings, not bolding it for ingame appearance - i guess the bug could just be on my end though since i haven’t found any ways to cause it

[VerMishelb]

Oh, so selection is broken. I thought that was my mouse acting up, because it’s a bit broken and I could not select a part of some line in the past.

[Viola]

oh alright, that confirms it’s not just on my end then. how or why is still unknown though - for me sometimes it works just fine and sometimes it doesn’t work at all

[ans1382]

@InterAction_studios Is it possible that main translators have a special logo like CHL?

[VerMishelb]

Is the fact that you are displayed in the credits not enough?

[ans1382]

It was just an idea… But I agree with you.

[InterAction_studios]

@VerMishelb

you can’t translate kg and km

Fixed in v.140.3

@Viola

if one makes a translation for a string that wasn’t previously translated, scrolls to another page, then scrolls back, the newly translated string will have the “Approve existing translation” button next to it as if it was created by another player

Fixed in v.140.3

@Viola

highlighting text seems to be buggy, and often doesn’t work at all, though I’ve been unable to figure out any patterns to when it works and when it doesn’t or how to cause the bug

Ensure that the field has focus first – selection won’t work otherwise.