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Translating Dawn of Man

By martiño

Learn how to create Dawn of Man translations and upload them to the Steam Workshop

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Workshop

Languages: English

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Jan 21, 2019 @ 10:39am

Apr 6, 2020 @ 3:40am

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro

Translating the game

Uploading to the Steam Workshop

Comments

Intro

Dawn of Man supports user translations through the steam workshop, this guide explains how to do it.

Translating the game

Download the current English strings from here: http://madrugaworks.com/dawnofman/files/strings.zip
Rename the files replacing "en" by your language 2 letter ISO code, for example for Russian this would be "ru_main.xml", "ru_tutorial.xml", "ru_help.xml" (if your language doesn't have an ISO code, just use any 2 letters).
Translate the files, note that the "language_name" string in "en_main.xml" is what your language is going to be called in the settings screen
Make sure you save the xmls as UTF8
Put the files in "My Documents/DawnOfMan/Strings"
Now the new language should appear in the settings menu

Uploading to the Steam Workshop

Once you've tested the translation on your machine, you can upload it to the workshop for other people to use, by using the Workshop Uploader, see instructions here:
https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2040934323

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SkyF_CZ Jan 9, 2024 @ 2:09pm

Are those translate files still up to date? Thank you!

Nazgul Gold Thief Jul 23, 2021 @ 11:47am

Hi. I'm working on the Slovenian translation. I have the xml files in the Documents/DawnOfMan/String folder, but the game doesn't give me the Slovenian option, only English, Spanish, French and German. Then it just rotates back to English.

When I downloaded the xml files, the file names looked like this: 'en_main.lng.xml'. I deleted the '.lng' part from them, before I did this I was getting a xml formatting error.

Any advice?

赤色冬瓜 Mar 26, 2021 @ 11:10pm

Hi. I'm a chinese translator, i have found some strings not included in strings.zip yet, i mean "Armor" and things related to this tech and the other two following, "cheesemaker" not contained also. Could you update the strings.zip soon?

Vhodnoylogin Mar 15, 2021 @ 3:38am

Thats good.
But why do you place al string in one file? I have an old localication (before Cheese update) and try to compare - and can't.
Plese, give before-cheese eng string. I find new entities and translate them,

Я не русский человек. Oct 15, 2020 @ 8:24am

can change to any font? and change font size?

martiño [author] Nov 24, 2019 @ 12:08pm

We've increased the space, could you now try again? thanks!

nautie Jul 17, 2019 @ 4:34pm

Sweet. I didn't realise it was this easy. I might try an Esperanto translation!

Elydion Apr 15, 2019 @ 4:10am

Thanks! I'm going to make a dutch translation.

PhDoctor Mar 23, 2019 @ 4:11am

Can someone explain how to edit the ingame text and map description text? First time uploading a mod and opened workshop_item.vdf file and not exactly sure how to edit the files there so it uploads properly to Steam. Thanks

teddydyrda Mar 21, 2019 @ 2:39pm

I've started the POLISH translation. Hope I'll finish it :D

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