Change messages on dedicated servers

ROCK · Post by **ROCK** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:42 pm

Is there a file somewhere that has all the messages that are sent to the screen? I've looked all over the code to find a mess of cout statements but couldn't find them, so i'm wondering if its just infield from the Language packets. Though my changing them seems to have no effect on ouputs. I'm betting lucifer know that answer to my question... He AAALWAAYYS Does.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:53 pm

lol.

Yes, but I don't know where to point you to find them. aa supports translation, so somewhere there's a few files with all the messages translated for various languages. I know they're stored in /usr/local/games/armagetronad-dedicated, but underneath there, I don't know. (I only know that because I gave the wrong argument to --datafiles a few times and got a bunch of really weird messages that were fixed when I fixed that argument)

Post by **dlh** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:56 pm

Since Armagetron is localized for other languages, you will find what you need in the english.txt language file (or deutsch.txt). You can change every message the server outputs to the clients. For example, player_win_frag in english.txt is set at default as "\1 core dumped \3 for \2 points.\n", where \1 is the player doing the killing, \3 is the player that is now dead, and \2 is the number of points. You could change it to whatever you want, just keep the \1 etc...

ROCK · Post by **ROCK** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:16 am

hey hey, I found the right language files, in /usr/local/games/armagetronad-dedicated/language... thanks for your help, I can do some fun junk with this.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:54 am

I found them too. Not all the strings seem to be getting replaced. How many of the english strings are still actually hardcoded, anyway?

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:07 pm

If I'm right, none of the strings a normal user should ever see are hard coded any more. What's left are error messages, debug messages and diagnostics. If you find one, it's a bug.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:41 pm

I think the team kill one might still be hardcoded

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Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:58 pm

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