How do I customize kill messages.

Ace_Azzameen_5 · Post by **Ace_Azzameen_5** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:43 pm

I think it was in the T/I vs Couch movie, I noticed a customized kill message, where KILLED was replaced by PWNED. Was this movie editing or are there some files I can edit to do the same? OR, is this a setting that is munged with maps, and is not global?

Saturn_V · Post by **Saturn_V** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:54 pm

It wasn't any fancy "Hollywood magic" type movie editing, I used the language tool to edit the kill message to say "pwned". Best mod I ever did, lol. Easiest way is to do it on a map by map basis. Have a look on Psych0fred's board for the list of localisation keys.

Rippentuck · Post by **Rippentuck** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:31 pm

Hey Saturn,

How do you get into these localization strings? I'm trying to remove the word "the" from the captured CP message for example, "The Empire has captured THE command post"). Can ya give me an idea how to do it?

Rip

MutantMonkey · Post by **MutantMonkey** » Fri May 27, 2005 7:08 am

I really want to know about the "THE command post" issue aswell, if ne1 ever gives u an answer Rippentuck - can u let me know. Thanx.

Saturn_V · Post by **Saturn_V** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:18 am

1. Download the localisation string list from Psych0fred's board.
2. Open it in a word processor and search for what you want (eg, search for captured)
3. Use the Localize button in BFBuilder to launch the Localize tool to add the scopes and keys for whatever you want to change.

Right click to get a menu to add a scope or a key. The key is the last part of the string, which you type a name for in the box in the middle (ie, not the comments box).

So for the CP "The", a quick search for captured shows:

game.infomsg.captured "%s captured The %s"

game is a Scope.
infomsg is a scope.
captured is a key.
"%s captured The %s" is the string displayed, so change it to %s captured %s

Then change the corresponding key for losing a CP (game.infomsg.lost)

Post by **Qdin** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:11 am

WOW!!! you are FANTASTIC!!!

man, there is NOTHING like learning from the best

C ya - and I could use this knowledge too...

Rippentuck · Post by **Rippentuck** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:23 pm

Hey Saturn,

Believe it or not I never saw your reply about this until today. I've read it and I'm still a bit cloudy. Where do you actually go in the game to change the text? Yes, I see the localization strings on Fred's page, but where are the strings in the game itself, so I can go there and change it?

Rip

Post by **SteveK14** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:28 pm

Rip,

Use the localization tool to make the changes.

Steve

Saturn_V · Post by **Saturn_V** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:52 pm

Rends made a great tute on how he did the bounty hunter localization too:

index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=971

Rippentuck · Post by **Rippentuck** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:13 pm

Thanks for the replies guys, but I'm not sure I'm making my question clear enough. I'm not simply trying to rename CPs. Let try putting it this way:

What do I do with the localization strings that I can read from Fred's site? I can certainly read them and edit them, but how do I get the changes into the game? That's my question. Yes, I know it involves the localization tool, lol. But I can't find any menu for editing the word "the" out of the capture text as Saturn explained in that earlier post. That's what I'm trying to do. Rends' tutorial doesn't say anything about it.

Rip

Post by **SteveK14** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:11 pm

set up the scopes and keys and put the words you want in the right pane, and SAVE. Click on the disk icon or go to the file menu and save. That's about it.

Saturn_V · Post by **Saturn_V** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:29 am

the localisation string,

game.infomsg.captured "%s captured The %s"

breaks down as

scope.scope.key "<string>"

%s is a placeholder for information fed to the string by the game engine depending on what's happened.

So you right click in the left hand pane, add a root level scope and name it game. Right click on that, create another scope, call it infomsg, then rc on that and create a key, name it captured. The key level of the tree is where you type your required text into the text box in the middle. Select the key and enter the text you want to see in the game in to the middle text box (the comments box changes to match the middel box, it seems), in this case

%s captured %s

This removes "The" from the CP capture message, so if you have a CP called The Barracks (like in the default setup), you'll see the game is now saying <team> captured Barracks, so you can rename the CP to The Barracks to correct it.

Now you'll want to add the complementary message string for losing the CP, searching the string list you'll see

game.infomsg.lost "%s lost The %s"

You already have the scope game, and you already have the scope infomsg, so create a new key under infomsg and call it lost. In the text box enter

%s lost %s

Here's a pic of the tree setup for a bunch of the death messages:

Rippentuck · Post by **Rippentuck** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:33 am

Saturn,

Thank you! This is just what I was looking for.

There is a problem though. I did what you said (added scope/scope/key), and in the pane where you have "Leeeory" I put in the name of the CP (Luna's Rest). I saved and munged, tried it in game. Now whenever any CP is captured, the text that pops up just says "Luna's Rest" and nothing else, as if this is what it will say for every lost/captured CP. So obviously I can't just put in the name of the CP in the text, I know I need to add a capture text. The problem then, is how to confine all this to that one CP. I want this CP to say "Empire (or Rebels) captured Luna's Rest," but I wanted the text for the other CPs to remain as it was before. Is that possible? What do I need to do further?

Hope you can help. I'll tinker with it in the meantime.

Rip

EDIT:
Hey Saturn, I got it working. Seems I wasn't following your instructions closely enough (duh). The CP texts now work as they should. Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to help!

DeadEdJ · Post by **DeadEdJ** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:43 am

You dont put the name of the CP. For what you want to do, you need to put text which says

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%s captured %s

and %s will be replaced automatically with Rebels etc. and then Command Post etc, to give "Rebels captured Command Post".

This will apply to all CP captures, so you will have to name all except Luna's Rest with a "the" in front.

Meanwhile, I've been messing around with the F5 to F12 commands, to make them more "proper". Eg, F10, "WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO DISPENSE ME SOME AMMUNITION, OLD CHAP?".

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Rippentuck · Post by **Rippentuck** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:03 pm

Ed,

I got it working, thanks. Sometimes you read the first few sentences of someone's instructions, a light bulb immediately clicks on :idea:, and you go try something while you completely forget that there's more instructions.

<shakes head>

Yeah it does sound like maybe I could mess with other things now that I get the basic idea of the localization strings. I assume it works in the same format (scope.scope.key)? If so lots of things could be changed. :twisted:

Rip

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:07 am

I think this procedure works only with custom maps. Nevertheless, is it possible to change some messages of shipped worlds, without using hex-editing ?

fruitymarshmallow · Post by **fruitymarshmallow** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:05 pm

oooo! that would be nice! ... well, I can't figure it out.

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