Oldunreal Localization Project

Unreal is very easy to translate as most strings in the maps and all of the menus are stored in plain text files with file extensions relative to the language of the game. New translation can easily be added and modified with any tool, even the simplest notepad - they are in fact regular .txt files. However, a lot of time is needed to fully complete a translation of the game. OldUnreal can use all the help you can give.

Language index

Currently, the project has support for 14 languages:

English	German	French	Spanish	Italian
Russian	Polish	Portuguese	Hungarian	Czech
Swedish	Catalan		Dutch	Norwegian

In addition to the individual files, every language page has a "language guideline" page with common names for repeated entries, as well as a general guidelines page with things to bear in mind when translating.

If you are fluent in these or know someone who is, take a look. Again, no advanced knowledge is required to participate. Only some basic knowledge of the game is needed.

• 226 new localizations Project: Localization of the 226 version, for new languages or fixes for the existing ones.
• Custom Maps Localization Projects: Localization of custom maps.

Useful tools

• OpenOffice and Libreoffice have an extension for Wiki's WikiPublisher, which can export any text into wiki formatted text files. Give it a try if you plan on adding your translation or modifying an existing one.

Return to Na Pali notes

Cutscenes with subtitles

• Crashsite2
• End
• Inter1..14
• InterCrashsite
• InterIntro
• Intro1

Important Changes

Gender support has been added to Polish and French. If you are localizing Unreal for a language where articles and verbs are neutral (such as English, where "a" has no gender and verbs do not show the gender of the subject/object), this is irrelevant to you. If the verb changes depending on the gender of the subject, as in Polish or certain situations in French, consult UnrealI.plt and UnrealI.frt, and look at the lines which have a "Fem" variation, as in UnrealI.plt:

[fell] 
AltName="spadł" 
FemAltName="spadła"

Since 227j every RTNP cutscene map contains a new actor called TransitionGenderEvent. This event is using different Hud types to draw the subtitles (UnrealHud, TransitionNullHud, CSHud). You can set up your subtitle text for both, female and male or only female or only male in your localization file. The settings are depending on the genders written and spoken output in some languages. The index value is the same if you are using FemaleText and MaleText. Here is a example:

[TransitionGenderEvent]
CommonText[0]="CommonText" is drawn used by female or male with sound output without written and spoken verb differences.
MaleText[1]=Use "MaleText" if your verb only typically for male
FemaleText[1]="FemaleTExt" this is for the ladies ;)
CommonText[2]=...
CommonText[3]=..
CommonText[4]=.

Unreal Tournament notes

Audio packages with spoken lines

There are eleven packages with spoken lines in the game: Announcer, BossVoice, Female1Voice, Female2Voice, Male1Voice, Male2Voice, OpeningWave, TutVoiceAS, TutVoiceCTF, TutVoiceDM and TutVoiceDOM. These packages are located in the Sounds/ folder of the game. In the english language they just have the default .uax extension, however, other languages use the .<lng>_uax extension. For example, while the Announcer pack in english is located under the filename Announcer.uax, its equivalent in spanish is located under the filename Announcer.est_uax. Ditto for the rest of the languages.

While english, spanish, deutsch, italian and french languages have translated voicelines, other languages must have packs created for them. Check this link for how each package is structured and for which lines. These, then, should be used, and their filenames and assetnames respected, in order for people to create newer packages for the languages that require them. Also, be aware that all lines are required to be translated since, even if no official assets in the game proper may use them, there are definitely mods which rely on them.

Linux

Linux users need to encode the files in unicode (UTF-16) format to make it work.

It is also possible to create or modify localizations for the original Unreal in its 226 version. Because great changes have been done to some files and some have been completely restructured, 227 and 226 files should not be mixed up. A dedicated page for legacy localizations has been set up. Feel free to create a new localization or modify the original one there too.

Adding new languages

Main article: Localization

If you want to add your own native language to Unreal, please use a two-letter code of your language from the ISO 639-1 list + a "t" at the end of the file extension as an acronym for the translation file.

For example:

Native Language	ISO-639-1 language code	File extension
Bulgarian	bg	.bgt
Greek	el	.elt
Korean	ko	.kot

A special note regarding Core.int and its equivalents: the file contains a field called Language wit the following format:

[Language]
Language="English (international)"
LangId=9
SubLangId=1

The Language= field can be replaced with its translated equivalent (i.e. Spanish = Español in Core.est and German = Deutsch in Core.det). As for the LangId and SubLangId, during the setup phase, the installer calls the function GetUserDefaultLangId. This document contains all the LangIds and SubLangIds; the way to recognize those is by looking at its bitfield: the first 10 bits mark the language ID, while the rest is sublanguage ID. These are the currently implemented languages in Unreal/UT:

Language	Translated name	ISO-639-1	Extension	LangId	SubLangId
English (International)	English (International)	en	.int	9	1
German	Deutsche	de	.det	7	0
French	Français	fr	.frt	11	0
Spanish	Español	es	.est	10	0
Italian	Italiano	it	.itt	16	0
Portuguese	Português	pt	.ptt	22	0
Polish	Polski	pl	.plt	21	0
Russian	Pусский	ru	.rut	25	0
Hungarian	Magyar	hu	.hut	14	0
Czech	Čeština	cz	.czt	5	0
Swedish	Svenska	se	.set	29	0
Catalan	Català	ct	.ctt	3	0
Dutch	Nederlands	nl	.nlt	19	0
Norwegian	Norsk	no	.not	20	0

Credits

Epic Games/Digital Extremes/Legend Entertainment: Original English/German/French/Spanish/Italian localizations Neon_Knight: Project coordination, Spanish maintenance. Buggie: Language templates. Smirftsch: German, additional contributions. EGo: German, additional contributions. Ividyon: German, additional contributions. Hellkeeper: French, fixes and maintenance. Rackover/Louvenarde: French, fixes and maintenance. rarsonic: Spanish, additional contributions. UBerserker: Italian, additional contributions. TaglesMalsto: Italian, additional contributions.

u.HighPriest: Russian, localization author. Skaarj ZR: Russian, additional contributions. Delacroix: Polish, additional contributions. Nahand: Portuguese, additional contributions. Naruto_9: Portuguese, additional contributions. Relaks: Hungarian, localization author. MakeMeUnreal: Hungarian, additional contributions. Gabor Kovacs: Hungarian, additional contributions. tomcat: Czech, localization author. Nikola: Czech, additional contributions. ElectricIce: Swedish, additional contributions. Excalidar: Norwegian, additional contributions.

Links for more information

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
• http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
• http://www.mathguide.de/info/tools/languagecode.html

See also

• Localization, for an in-depth overview of how the Unreal Engine handles localization.