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s10k

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Translate the subtitles?

Hello,

I have searched but found nothing.. Wich files should I extract and edit, to I translate my oni subtitles to my native language?

I tried extract SUBT files but no sucess at editing (4 kb only each?)

Thanks.

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

What did you extract them with? OUP? The point is that the text strings are stored in the RAW part, pointed to from the DAT.
If you have the Edition, you'll find SUBTmessages.oni and SUBTsubtitles.oni in [Oni\edition\GameDataFolder\level0_Final]
The respective sizes are about 10 and 50 kB. The 4kB you mention are probably the size of the DAT part alone.

Note that it's not straightforward to edit the SUBT in hex, because you have to update the pointers to the strings.
I developed on the underlying problems here: http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/v … 1558#p1558
Clearly, you're better off processing the SUBT file into an ASCII file and back, with some pretty simple program.
I haven't written that program yet, and Neo has no -extract/-import support for SUBT, either. That may change.

Last edited by geyser (02/29/08 18:02)

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s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

I used OniUnPacker, not sure if I extracted them correctly.

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

Actually the latest version of OUP should let you edit the SUBT in-place with a nice dialog and no hex-editing. Checking...

EDIT: Nope, no dice. Alloc planned to add that feature to the "Meta-Editor" but looks like it's still broken at the moment.

Last edited by geyser (02/29/08 18:02)

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s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

So any ideas to edit them currently?

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

No. I'll bump this thread when we have something you can use.

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s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

No. I'll bump this thread when we have something you can use.

Ok. Thank you.

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

Here's a new version of OniSplit that lets you export SUBT files as text files and reimport them: http://geyser.oni2.net/TEMP/OniSplit.exe
You extract the subtitles, e.g., by going to Oni\edition\GameDataFolder and typing:

..\install\OniSplit.exe -extract:txt SUBT level0_Final\SUBTsubtitles.oni

This places the output text file into Oni\edition\GameDataFolder\SUBT\SUBTsubtitles.txt
Once you're done editing the text file, you can type (from Oni\edition\GameDataFolder again, for example):

..\install\OniSplit.exe -create:subt SUBT SUBT\SUBTsubtitles.txt

This places the new .oni file into Oni\edition\GameDataFolder\SUBT\SUBTsubtitles.oni
You can then use that file to replace the original one (in the level0_Final folder) and then rerun step9999.bat

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s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

Nice, I will try translate them, I can put it here then, if you are interested.

s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

Hello,
I tried extract/edit and recompile and I did it sucefull.

However, I have one problem.

Seems my oni doesn't support the follow accents:

´`^etc..

Did you have any oni.exe file that support them? Thanks.

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

The "standard" English version of Oni is actually Japanese, and treats upper ASCII as control sequences for hieroglyphs. Accentuated Latin characters or Cyrillic text won't work with that engine (the strings will be broken at the first offending char).
There are a few versions of the engine that were shipped with European localizations: French, Italian, German, Hungarian. Those recognize upper-ASCII characters, but they are not supported by the Daodan DLL or even Ian's anti-blam patcher.
The Russian version supports upper-ASCII and comes with a Daodan DLL. However, a few engine-resident messages wil appear in Russian ("Save Point", cheat code confirmations, etc) and the Dev Mode will fail to display some useful information.
So if you really want to use accentuated characters (think again), you probably want to get the Russian engine: http://geyser.oni2.net/EXE/pc.buka

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s10k

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

I tested russian version and seems it recognise some but not all chars. And deform others.

I think I will translate it without accents.

geyser

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Re: Translate the subtitles?

If you want us to investigate, please make a list of unrecognized and "deformed" characters.

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