There are a lot of custom campaigns that are made in other languages than english, there are a lot of ways to translate things nowadays but i havent found one that can work natively in game without having to do a lot of work, does anyone know of anything that could help?
It would be nice if the devs could implement a translate option but i get that it may not be on top of priorities
Like, a translate option im the Campaign editor? You’d need to connect the gsme to google translate or Chat GPT. Or do you mean something else?
You can use the string mod files if what you want is display localized strings in game.
“A veces…lo extraño”
like translating custom campaigns that are made in other languages than english in real time, there are so many i’d like to play but i dont know the language, i also have no experience in modding except for downloading them lol so idk if theres already a way to do so through the files somehow.
ive been thinking about using google translate but then i’d have to copy and paste in to it or use my phone camera, it’d be nice with a faster option that automatically translates whats on screen
So, you want something like a “Translate button” but in the game.
I suppose you could use AoE2scenario parser to extraxt all texts from the scenario, translate them with Chat GPT, then create the string mod files for every language, tell Chat GPT to fill those files and then, use AoE2scenario parser again to make the scenario load the String ID’s from the mod string files.
If you know Pytho and the string files, it should’t take more than 10 minutes per scenario
I’ve made a comprehensive guide explaining how to do this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/1uo60md/translation_of_campaigns_using_ai_tools/
Also, all the campaigns I made available within the last 48 hours were translated in this way. I found a bug in my prompt, which resulted in that certain things were not translated. But I will update the affected campaigns this week. Also there is still a lot of campaigns I haven’t uploaded yet, since it is quite tedious to fill out the information about the campaigns.
My next goal is to use AI to convert Age of Empires 2013 campaigns from AOKH and the Steam Workshop to DE, as there are still many beloved campaigns which has never been converted. If anyone are keen on helping with this, let me know here on in DM.
Oh that sounds really promising, i checked out your uploads, looks like i have a few more campaigns to play, hopefully this leads to more campaigns being translated, i will try it out myself at some point too, thank you! looking forward to more campaigns