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Hello everyone.
I am a Spanish player and I would translate the texts of the game into my language, but I do not know how to do this. In Sins of a Solar Empire it was very easy because the texts were in txt format (in the folder "Strings"), but here it seems more difficult.
Can anyone help me? Do I need a specific program?
Thank you all.
You could try notepad ++, Im using it all the time since it is very userfriendly and it is free. Just open up the .xml files with it and you`ll see ^^
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Texts for menus and similars are in the installation folder of the game, more precisely: Elemental/data/English/elemental.str
Plus all the .xml files there that inlude the names of objects, descriptions...
Notepad++ is enough to work with the .str and the .xml files.
In Elemental\data\English you'll find a file names english.str (str means "string")
Copy english.str in Elemental\Mods\data\English\ (you'll have to manually create the data and english folders)
Then edit english.str that lies in your mod folder.
Don't forget to enable mods in the game 
Enjoy !
PS: it's a good thing to always work on copy of original files and put the copies in the mods folder with the same path as in the game root directory.
It's true! Here is the .str file. Thank you all for the help, guys! You are great. 
I have a new question. I have already translated all text from the file "Elemental.str" but I don't know what words should be translated into XML files.
I have tried to replace the words that are among <DisplayName> codes. For example:
</ AIDifficultyLevel>
InternalName="AIDiffLvl_Easy"> <AIDifficultyLevel
<DisplayName> Fácil </ DisplayName>
<AIEconomicRatio> 0.90 </ AIEconomicRatio>
<AIFOWCheat> 0 </ AIFOWCheat>
<AIHPRatio> 1.00 </ AIHPRatio>
<AIStartingFundsRatio> 1.0 </ AIStartingFundsRatio>
<AISovereignPointsRatio> 1.0 </ AISovereignPointsRatio>
<AISovereignHPRatios> 1.0 </ AISovereignHPRatios>
<AIIntelligenceFactor> 0.50 </ AIIntelligenceFactor>
<AIUsesCombatMagic> 0 </ AIUsesCombatMagic>
However, this change is not reflected in the game. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much.
Do you changing the core xml files? If so just copy them to your C:\Users\*USER*\Documents\My Games\Elemental directory and edit them there, the changes should take place there.
Changes to the Core files in the English directory would require to... recompile? the data.zip file, which is used instead of the XML files as a way to load faster the game. I'm not sure how it does work as I don't mod core files but some threads here talk about it (something about a command line to do it). Maybe one of the resident experts will post here about it.
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