Editing ingame text : CSF & STR

Prolong - Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 8:02

Ah I should have mentioned ages ago - your method to convert a CSF file into a STR file will never actually work because it doesn't account for the '=' character in the game's tooltips, so every STR file you make with it will have syntax errors around those tooltips. I don't remember them all but they include the Fortress upgrade tooltips Burning Forges, Eregion Forge, Excavations (or at least two of those)... and I think there's others as well. You'll basically have to manually fix all of these after converting the file, which means starting and crashing the game for the next error message many times until it works.

borbak trufa - Friday August 8, 2008 - 11:34

Thanks for this tutorial, it's really useful, I would never have found the ingame text without it. Now I've got one question: Do I have to activate subtitles or do anything other than changing them to get them working? Cos I dunno how to activate subtitles, there ain't an option in BFME settings menu. Or do they activate themselves automatically after being edited?

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Thanks for this tutorial, it's really useful, I would never have found the ingame text without it. Now I've got one question: Do I have to activate subtitles or do anything other than changing them to get them working? Cos I dunno how to activate subtitles, there ain't an option in BFME settings menu. Or do they activate themselves automatically after being edited?

Acronos - Thursday February 7, 2008 - 18:55

If I installed patches for BFMEII, do I have to change the text in those .str files too?
Or can I just change lotr.str?

Medicleous - Sunday February 3, 2008 - 3:14

Ok done, that helped. However some hundreds of lines failed to convert properly, I had to go in and manually add the " and END commands. Works now though, thanks.

m@tt (Team Chamber Member) - Saturday February 2, 2008 - 3:55

The Hex Editor has a replace function (under the search menu), just fill it in and hit Replace All.

Medicleous - Friday February 1, 2008 - 17:37

I also don't understand this rediculous tutorial. I've spent ten minutes staring at this hex code and don't know where to start. There's heaps of 0D 0As throughout the code, do I replace all of them? If this is the best the 3rd Age community can do then god help us all.

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I also don't understand this rediculous tutorial. I've spent ten minutes staring at this hex code and don't know where to start. There's heaps of 0D 0As throughout the code, do I replace all of them? If this is the best the 3rd Age community can do then god help us all.

Maereandil - Monday October 22, 2007 - 2:26

May I add that for some languages for Bfme2 and Rotwk the game still uses CSF files. Maybe you can add that.

Bart (Administrator) - Sunday August 19, 2007 - 2:22

yes

CNCM_BLITZ - Saturday August 18, 2007 - 19:55

I cant understand THIS part.

Bart (Administrator) - Saturday August 18, 2007 - 17:38

you just need to find the 'find and replace' function, which is of course different depending on what hex editor you use

in Notepad++ it's Ctrl+H