Localization of my scenario

Age of Empires II: DE II - Modding
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Hi, I am new to creating scenario maps for AoE II: DE. I know how to place and reference sound files already. How can I localize my map? I want to translate all ingame messages into German and place German sound files in the mod as well. Subscribing the mod should give you both languages: English and German.

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ah, well, I recommend you read this section on “translating of scenario text” in my guide. It explains everything you need to know.

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I’ll add that ID’s don’t need to be numerical. You can use strings as string ID, like this
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While I know that is valid too, I am curious though
 How do you use them in the editor? (if at all.) Scenarios only seem to accept numbers. (That part always confused me.) Unless, those are AGE only use?

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I was just testing and it seems that now, you CAN’T use strings as string ID’s. It defaults to ID=0. However, I used to use strings as ID in the past. Time to take a look at my mods

Edit: some triggers do accept strings as string ID’s
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Deprecated

You copy and paste
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Yeah I see now. I tested it at the same time you were posting. Such a strange thing to limit it to only numbers if they want to use characters too. shrugs I’ll update this in my guide.

edit: Oh, ‘some can’? interesting
 Noted.

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Thx a lot. Something like HERRENBERG_INSTRUCTIONS_1 seems to work in editor only. I use it in the editor and it filled the text immediately automatically. However, when I play the map no message appears :frowning: and yes the ID is set back to 0 in the editor.

Isn’t there a nice tool which generates the new IDs? It is really confusing how this should work with multiple mods enabled.

And what about the sound files? I have placed them in resources_common\drs\sounds. What is the localization folder?

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Can you share how you place and reference sound files? What format sound files? Do you have a screenshot(s)? Thanks in advance!

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I have my sound files in this directory in my mod: herrenberg/resources/_common/drs/sounds at master · tdauth/herrenberg · GitHub

They are named like “animals.wem” and I refer them via “animals” in the transmission action.

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For the sound files I found the following file directory path for German: resources\de\scenario\sounds and it works.