Change Language

to Russian?

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Hello. I started translating the elemental.str to Russian, but the game don't react on my alterations. It's still English instead of my actions.

 I tried to follow instructions:

 

The first thing to understand about Elemental is that almost everything is put into the DATA directory of Elemental (in program files\stardock\elemental.

By contrast, things you mod should go into the documents\my games\elemental\units directory in general (eventually we’ll just put a general mods directory).

Inside the Data folder is the English directory. As its name implies, we switch this directory based on localization (so there will eventually be a German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, etc. directory).

If you change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stardock\Drengin.net\Elemental to have language be say German, I THINK you can actually create a sub-directory called German, copy everything from English into it and start making a German version but I haven’t tried this yet.
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I created new folder "Russian" in \Elemental\Data and copied all files from English to there. I changed language in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Stardock\Drengin.net\Elemental. I also switched On "Usemods" in the game, but language remained still English. And now I don't know what to try else.

 Please, give me advice about this problem..

 Sorry for my bad English... =(

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You may need to remove the data.zip and run the game with the /createxmlbinary switch. Note that doing that will cause an extremely long load time while it's processing, so be sure to let it finish. Also make sure that the use localized data option is on.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

kryo, thanks a lot!

But i don't actually understand all game's structures and options. Please, describe me: how and where I can switch "/createxmlbinary"? And tell me a little more about that "localized data option"...

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Make a shortcut to the game with the target line like (with the location you installed at of course):

F:\Games\Elemental\Elemental.exe /createxmlbinary

 

The localized data setting is just a toggle in the options screen which may also be relevant.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Still doesn't work.

- I removed data.zip

- Wrote up the target line in a shortcut to the game. ("W:\Elemental War of Magic\Elemental.exe" /createxmlbinary)

- And switch on "localized data option".

But the game still remains English. Maybe there is another file, where I can rewrite english text? For now I have only changed elemental.str, and haven't touch any other files.