Strings.bin - Revision history

Makanyane: trying to fix title

2007-09-25T20:20:47Z

trying to fix title

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE: .strings.bin}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:strings.bin}}
	[[M2TW]] and the [[Kingdoms]] expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translation files are the ones in '''data/text''' that in RTW had format		[[M2TW]] and the [[Kingdoms]] expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translation files are the ones in '''data/text''' that in RTW had format
	{internal_name} In Game Name		{internal_name} In Game Name

Makanyane at 20:20, 25 September 2007

2007-09-25T20:20:17Z

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:.strings.bin}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE: .strings.bin}}
	[[M2TW]] and the [[Kingdoms]] expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translation files are the ones in '''data/text''' that in RTW had format		[[M2TW]] and the [[Kingdoms]] expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translation files are the ones in '''data/text''' that in RTW had format
	{internal_name} In Game Name		{internal_name} In Game Name

Makanyane: unpack link

2007-09-25T20:20:04Z

unpack link

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	thus providing translation between the internal name used by the engine and that displayed by the game.		thus providing translation between the internal name used by the engine and that displayed by the game.

	To access the strings.bin files at all you first have to [[unpack]] your M2TW installation.		To access the strings.bin files at all you first have to [[Pack Extractor\|unpack]] your M2TW installation.
	The strings.bin files in M2TW can be opened with notepad and contents are decipherable to an extent but are not readily edited.		The strings.bin files in M2TW can be opened with notepad and contents are decipherable to an extent but are not readily edited.

Makanyane: New page: {{DISPLAYTITLE:.strings.bin}} M2TW and the Kingdoms expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translatio...

2007-09-25T20:17:11Z

New page: {{DISPLAYTITLE:.strings.bin}} M2TW and the Kingdoms expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translatio...

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:.strings.bin}}
[[M2TW]] and the [[Kingdoms]] expansion use '''.strings.bin''' files instead of normal .txt files for most of the text translation files. The text translation files are the ones in '''data/text''' that in RTW had format
{internal_name} In Game Name
thus providing translation between the internal name used by the engine and that displayed by the game.

To access the strings.bin files at all you first have to [[unpack]] your M2TW installation.
The strings.bin files in M2TW can be opened with notepad and contents are decipherable to an extent but are not readily edited.

[[Alpaca]] has produced a tool that converts the .strings.bin files into the equivalent normal .txt files similar to those used in RTW. The converter may be found [http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=75229 here]. It can not convert battle.txt, battle_ed.txt, shared.txt, strat.txt or tooltips.txt.

The general principle for using the converter is run the program as instructed to obtain .txt version of the files, edit the .txt files as you would their RTW equivalents, if just altering the ingame text you can use
{internal_name} New Name
and ''New Name'' will appear in game.

If adding regions, events, character names etc you have to also add new sections to represent the internal name inside {} brackets in format to correspond with existing entries.

If you then launch game with only the .txt file available and not the original strings.bin file the game will read the .txt file and in most cases regenerate a new .strings.bin file from the .txt file.

[[Category:M2TW Modding]]