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Title: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 21, 2012, 05:04:47 pm
Hello. I wanted to inform you that me and a fellow translator are procceding with the WCS:DD translation into spanish. I wanted to officially ask you, WCS developers, permission to continue with this translation. Once it's finished, and again if you give us permission, we'll publish this translation (not the mod itself) here in HLP and in a spanish webpage of translators, Clan DLAN. So, do you agree with this?

If your response is possitive, I have an inquiry. I'm going to translate the cinematics too, add some subtitles to them... But the problem is I can't understand everything they say. So I wanted to ask you if you had the scripts around there (I mean, the cinematics lines in txt the voice actors had to read while recording), and if you could share them with me in order to expedite this translation. Thank you.

AGH! I didn't notice you had a forum in the wcs webpage. I'm going to post there too.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: karajorma on August 22, 2012, 07:54:39 pm
Are you translating the missions themselves or the strings.tbl?
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 23, 2012, 03:49:37 am
Missions, strings, weapons, ships... Everything except tstrings, because WCS's tstrings is the FreeSpace one  :confused:
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: MatthTheGeek on August 23, 2012, 03:57:33 am
I'm not surprised WCS doesn't use TStrings.tbl. Honestly I cannot name a single mod that does.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 23, 2012, 10:19:40 am
Yeah I know... It doesn't matter much anyway.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: karajorma on August 23, 2012, 09:02:34 pm
I'm not surprised WCS doesn't use TStrings.tbl. Honestly I cannot name a single mod that does.

How many mods do you know that have been translated?
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: MatthTheGeek on August 24, 2012, 12:35:38 am
Exactly.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 24, 2012, 12:44:27 am
Well, actually during the times of FSO 3.6.10 I translated FS2, FSPort, Cardinal Spear, Blue Planet: AoA, JAD, ST:R, Op Templar and ASW  ;)

And BTRL...
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: karajorma on August 24, 2012, 04:49:44 am
Well that's good. But if you don't translate using strings.tbl it's largely a wasted effort because as soon as they release updates your work becomes outdated.

Exactly.

You're getting cart before the horse. Mods aren't translated because no one goes to the 10 second effort of preparing a strings.tbl.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: MatthTheGeek on August 24, 2012, 05:00:02 am
Or noone goes to the 10 sec effort to prepare a strings.tbl because there is not enough interest in the community for translations to begin with.

I know that, as a French, I wouldn't want to even download and play mods translated from English to French.

EDIT: Just to make myself clearer, I am not saying that it is a bad idea to make translations. What I am saying is that, the fact noone here can name a mod that uses a strings.tbl, shows of how little interest the community seems to have for translations.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: karajorma on August 24, 2012, 05:20:52 am
Well BtRL had both tables. And Diaspora will too.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 24, 2012, 03:14:01 pm
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But if you don't translate using strings.tbl it's largely a wasted effort because as soon as they release updates your work becomes outdated.

Yeah, that's my nightmare. Fortunately, main campaigns have one.

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And Diaspora will too.

Can't wait :D
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Lorric on August 28, 2012, 09:08:10 am
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But if you don't translate using strings.tbl it's largely a wasted effort because as soon as they release updates your work becomes outdated.

Yeah, that's my nightmare. Fortunately, main campaigns have one.

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And Diaspora will too.

Can't wait :D

Oh no, it's Alex Navarro. Please tell me you're not the review guy from Gamespot. I hate that guy for trashing Dynasty Warriors.
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Alex Navarro on August 30, 2012, 01:51:53 pm
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Oh no, it's Alex Navarro. Please tell me you're not the review guy from Gamespot. I hate that guy for trashing Dynasty Warriors.

lol I think they asked me the same question four years ago. No I'm not that Alex Navarro :P
Title: Re: Spanish (Spain) translation
Post by: Lorric on August 31, 2012, 05:02:56 pm
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Oh no, it's Alex Navarro. Please tell me you're not the review guy from Gamespot. I hate that guy for trashing Dynasty Warriors.

lol I think they asked me the same question four years ago. No I'm not that Alex Navarro :P

Phew. Hello! :D

Hate that guy...  :hopping: