Is there a text dump of the game?

[Thedkm]

 

Hello, 

 

For the purpose of translation, is there a text dump of Blades of Avernum or at least Blades of Exile?

I know there is for the original Exile trilogy and the old Avernum versions, but I can't find any info on Exile/Blades of av.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited May 26, 2022 by Thedkm

[Kelandon]

Each Blades of Avernum scenario has scripts that are ordinary text files. If you wanted to do a translation, you'd go into the scripts to edit or extract the text there.

[Thedkm]

Excellent news, thank you for your answer. 😀

 

By any chance I can't find the introduction text for each of the official scenarios, this last one remains untraceable in the folder.

 

You wouldn't know where it is?

[Kelandon]

The introduction text is in the bas file itself. You have to use a scenario editor to access it.

[osnola]

Hello,
concerning Blades Of Exile, the project Classic Blades of Exile https://github.com/calref/cboe allows to dump all the text of a scenario in a file. 
Regarding doing a translation, it is possible to use the BoE scenario editor to translate the text of a scenario (or to unzip/untar the new scenario format and edit the text files directly) ; there remain two/three main problems ( that I have tried to fix in my fork which diverged strongly 😒, in the floor branch )

• the code uses basic strings, so if you need to use non-ascii characters : à, é, è, ñ, ... 😒
• there are a lot of strings that are hard-coded in the code; so without changing the code, it is not possible to translate them,
• the provided fonts allow to display only some basic characters, most of them western characters ( I haven't solved this problem, but it seems possible to replace the provided fonts with others ).

[Thedkm]

Thank you very much for your help.