Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded

Subject: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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M.A.X. Reloaded supports now full locale support for iso-8559-1, iso-8559-2, iso-8559-3, iso-8559-4 and iso-8559-5 (that are all common languages in the western world). Means translationfiles for these languages "could" be written. However a translation isn't useful without the fonts providing all the special characters and ties for each language.

So now we need the fontgraphics for all these languages :-)

6*16 signs for all special characters needed for every latin charset
5 latin charsets (iso-8559)
3 different fonts (big, normal, small)

Makes 6 * 16 * 5 * 3 special characters to draw. If I got this right we need now 1440 fonts drawn.

Who wants to volunteer? :-D

Note: It would be a big help if you'd just volunteer for _your_ locales. That would only be around 288 signs. You should have some knowhow about image manipulation. Task is like that: You get provided with the basic font images containing default MAXR-fonts. Now your job is to write your locals depending on a provided ascii table by using a grid below the basic font using a font similar to MAXR fonts. Now you make the fonts a little bit "max'ish". The shadow and all that. Depending on how good your image manipulation skill is this can be a very easy task for you. When done you simply send me back the image without changing the colourmap of the image.

BTW: iso-8559-1 is almost completed and iso-8559-5 needs finetuning since I'm not really familiar with cryllian signs and so I confused some and mixed them a little bit up :rolleyes:

Languagelist of theoretically supported languges:

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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Hi!
I'm new here and I'd REALLY like to translate M.A.X. Reloaded into Serbian Cyrillic (srp). }:-)
Of course, I have no prior experience in character coding or font design.
So, here's the initial problem: I don't know that Serbian Cyrillic was ever successfully coded to ASCII (I had no luck finding any "official" coding table). Thus I'm not sure that any of the ISO encodings work with Serbian Cyrillic. We mostly use Unicode (or windows-1251, or cp-1251).

So do you have any suggestions?

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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aw.. now that's old. Don't worry about the encoding. utf8 is fine for me. I can convert this easily and it really doesn't matter to much.

What you will have to do is draw your cyrillic characters yourself. I can't help you on this since this looks like random pixels to me

here can you read how to create a language file.

I'll try to dig out the ascii table for you. I saved this stuff somwhere on my disc.

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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NP!
Now I just need those "basic font images" to get cracking with it...

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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This is it.. as you can see offers the iso-8559-5 set most cyrillic characters. Some may be missing. You have to deal with the existing.


(Source: click)

Check maxr's root dir fir the folder "fonts". Here you'll find images names "somewhat-iso-8559-5.pcx" representing your cyrillic characters that are simply added to the basic set all iso-8559s have in common during loading of the language file.

Add your missing characters at the proper places according to the image above using a pixel manipulation programm like gimp. Do not change the image type, palette or colour depth.

The image above uses a slighly different sorting: an empty field at the beginning. skip this one and start counting from the first character both images have in common when adding new characters to the image. Do so for all font types if needed. The small fonts only cover capital letters. Feel free to fix misplaced characters as well (I know of at least 2).

When done with the translation send me the file. I'll try to convert if for you. With this you should have something to start from Feel free to ask.

Edit: Oh.. and welcome to the bbs

dang.. I really need some coffee

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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Great, thanx!
I feel stupid now for not exploring the game folder more thoroughly, but I just found about M.A.X.R. last night. }:-)
Excuses, excuses.
I'll get on it and contact you as soon as I finish.

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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no big deal

you may show up for some test gaming on the IRC

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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I might, but I have to get back into form first. I haven't played for helluva long time! };-)
Tnx for the warm welcome though. }:-)

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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We play for fun and for debugging

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Subject: Re: MAXR now supports different charsets for translations. NEED VOLUNTEERS

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alzi overworked the font system to utf8. You can now simply write your language file in utf8

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