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Mods & Development / Utilities to edit bin@tbl files

« on: May 04, 2015, 05:11:51 PM »

So, you unpack mpq archives and have many text and dialog files (located in rez mainly).
You want to edit that file for some reason, how to do that?

Here are these 2 utils: binedit and tblpad.
I just tried and they works for me.

Also note that these extensions doesn't guarantee compatible file format (for example ai.bin is not the file to open with binedit). Also some files with improper extensions could be opened by these utilities. Appreciate if you post some additional details about how to open other files.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Multilingual server

« on: May 04, 2015, 04:47:51 PM »

k the goal is to have war2combat in spanish (with spanish unit sounds)

Sure, the goal is to have combat totally in spanish: all dialogs, names, messages, sounds, videos, etc...

i need to extract what and send you what?

I'd say you need to extract everything and check which files are language-dependent.

Unit sounds is the easiest thing: it's war2dat\Gamesfx directory grouped by units.

Lots of dialogs are located in war2dat\rez. That is a directory with the text data, so i think would be easy to replace it totally for spanish version.
If you have plans to fix some grammar errors, your should edit that files.

Not sure about war2dat\art. Probably need to replace some files from there.
Some pictures have words (in english). You should replace them to the same spanish files.

Another interesting question is about hotkeys.
It is a question to spanish-spoken people, but i think everybody knows english hotkeys, but spanish version have spanish ones.
You probably need to replace hotkeys to english. That is much manual work (we changed hotkeys for russian combat to well-known english).
(Someting like to replace "y
CONSTRUIR AY
UNTAMIENTO" to "h
CONSTRUIR AYUNTAMIENTO (H)")
That is file war2dat\rez\stat_txt.tbl

As i remember we used someting like tblpad to edit stat_txt.tbl file, but i'm not sure...
I'll create new topic to attach tbl utilities...

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Mods & Development / Re: Make your own icons for war2!!!! Add my icons iL!!

« on: May 03, 2015, 05:36:59 PM »

I don't recommend using the icons.bni tupac uploaded iL, it still needs some work.

Yes, just opened that with bniiconbuilder.
"Proper" file should at least contain all the existing icons (with the same tags). Can be easily donwloaded using bnftp from current server.
Then you should append it with several useful icons.
I can replace that file if you check that file to be compatible with war2 and war2 shows icons properly. Also the question is how we will use these icons.

I don't think we should care of our time spent on icons (it really takes several minutes to upload and apply), but icons should be checked and to be useful.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Multilingual server

« on: May 03, 2015, 05:15:50 PM »

i remember i need to edit hotkeys and some unit names cuz in spanish are badly coded.
(like the paladin cuz the unit its called paladan but you train it in barracks as 'clerigo')

Nice to see you re downloaded it already.
If you have plans to make the list of resource files (with files are important for which language thing), would be great to share that info between the community.
That will help future releasers to make multilingual builds. Otherwise one will have to do that himself.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: I have a suggestion

« on: May 03, 2015, 05:10:54 PM »

I have a facebook page dedicated to war2 that currently has 2,600 people following thanks to burnt's help. I never post on it. Burnt is an admin on it also and has stopped posting on it as well.

Great idea! I hope Burnt have enough time and wish to do something with that.

I also hope you are still interested to advertise that page too, tk. Would be great if you continue that your project.

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Mods & Development / Re: FB Insights/Multiple Languages

« on: May 03, 2015, 05:05:27 PM »

I'm amazed by how many Brazilians have liked the War2 Tides of Darkness page.

That's nice!
We will add brazil to our plan also.

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Mods & Development / Re: Make your own icons for war2!!!! Add my icons iL!!

« on: May 03, 2015, 05:01:33 PM »

Have fun it's easy as hell!!!

Did you keep current icons on the same places?
I mean MAST, PROFI, etc?

Will current people keep their custom icons if i replace current file to this one?

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Mods & Development / Re: SID_READMEMORY packet

« on: May 03, 2015, 04:59:00 PM »

SID_READMEMORY is in plans, far future. Now lastest pro is unstable and crashes in several hours after start.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Google ranking rapport for http://en.war2.ru/

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:44:35 PM »

it has to not look like spam, like "download free warcraft 2" it will get deleted.

It looked like "last active war2 server in the world" or "currently active war2 server". It was truth, but they deleted that link...
I'm not experienced in wiki editing, so i have no idea how to do that properly, but i agree such link would be great.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: locate the .pcx screenshot

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:23:44 PM »

Here, made short links:

http://en.war2.ru/ss
http://en.war2.ru/ss/#uac

We also have short links: war2.ru/ss and war2.ru/hosting
Let me know if i should redirect them to similar en.war2.ru pages also.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: 19 years ago today

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:18:37 PM »

Wow, only half a year later than war2 td? War2 td release date is December 9, 1995

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Google ranking rapport for http://en.war2.ru/

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »

Links from Wikipedia are rel="nofollow" and doesnt affect the rank

I'd say even a link with "nofollow" could be useful for people who read wikipedia and follow the links from there.

Another problem we got several years ago with russian part and russian wiki:
Russians tried to add the link to war2.ru, but wiki's moderators removed that link quickly. No idea how to add that link to wiki to keep it permanently.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Only admins cann add icon tag on wc2 ?

« on: April 30, 2015, 05:04:28 PM »

Nothing is preventing us. IL is the only one with direct access and he is busy. Don't worry one day he will do it. Just wait....

Direct access is not the main problem in that question.

I don't pay much attention to icons, i have no much time for that, but that problem is resolvable easily.
If someone (admin?) give me icons.bni file to replace, i'll upload it as soon as i get it.
If someone (admin?) ask me about an access to bnet directory, i'll try to do something.

Yes, i have no time to work on icons, but don't think i'm the one who slow that down. I'm ready to assist an icons job when anyone else will do another part of that job.

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Support Requests / Re: possible cmd

« on: April 30, 2015, 04:54:32 AM »

listening to channel means to read the main channel on the game screen during playing? Looks too noisy, isn't it?

I had some thoughts about to show the main channel on the site or w/e...

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Server.War2.ru / Re: locate the .pcx screenshot

« on: April 30, 2015, 04:44:10 AM »

i know this been said a million times i have searcehed my whole comp have no idea where it is. nvm somehow it has showed up in the folder.

Here: http://en.war2.ru/support/ -> screenshots -> If you already saved a screenshot with UAC Enabled…

Navigate to your User folder at C:\Users\YourName
If hidden files are not visible, follow this short tutorial to show them
Navigate to the folder AppData > Local > VirtualStore > Program Files > War2combat
Your screenshot(s) should be saved in this directory. (They will have a .pcx extension)

Also ss from chat asks you about the location and name (documents by default).
Also ss from game should be saved in game folder by default.