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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Black Wolf on October 01, 2002, 12:11:55 am

Title: Quick Question
Post by: Black Wolf on October 01, 2002, 12:11:55 am

What does tStrings.tbl do? It looks important.

Title: Quick Question
Post by: CP5670 on October 01, 2002, 01:22:42 am

It contains various generic text strings that are used throughout the game. Strangely enough, the file also has all of the mission briefing/message/etc. text, the tech room information and everything in both english and german, but I think the game only uses a small part of it.

Title: Quick Question
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 01, 2002, 02:23:08 am

Sometimes seems like :v: made the whole thing up as they went along...


What?:nervous:

Title: Quick Question
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 01, 2002, 03:38:48 am

Dude, they did[/i] make it all up as they went along! ;):lol:

Anyway, the point was to make it easy to convert FS2 into the European (read "German") release.  Ever notice those funny numbers after the text strings in the ships.tbl and the weapons.tbl and the briefings and debriefings and so on?  Those refer to which string they are in the tStrings.tbl.  For each string number there is an English version and its German equivalent in that table.