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gumball135

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New language?
« on: April 03, 2009, 03:20:04 pm »
Hullo again. I've decided to make my own playable civ, the Lizardmen. I have the creature file almost done but I don't want to give them one of the default speech files like I've done in the past, but I don't want to spend hours manually changing EVERY word in the language files, either. So, my question is: does anyone know of a faster way to create a new one? A random language generator, or something similar? Or am I doomed to giving up those many hours of my life...?

Thanks anyways.
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Re: New language?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2009, 03:33:46 pm »
Hate to break this to you, but you ARE doomed. Unless...

a) Someone can make a program that randomises language, taking some words from elves, some from dwarves etc.
    This will essentially mix languages together.

b) You use a generic Human or Elf language.

c) Change all words to Carp, making 'Atoth Skillsharpened' to 'Atoth Carpcarp', could work well for primitive
    languages.
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Re: New language?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 03:41:10 pm »
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=463

Mephansteras's command line DF language file generator. Personally, I can't stand it, so I started a GUI language generator a while ago, but I haven't worked on it in a while.
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Re: New language?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2009, 03:52:56 pm »
Ooops, forgot all about that thingy...all hidden up in DFFD...

Well it's not like that is meant for everyday, regular use, so no GUI shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Only prob is you will have to experiment with diffrent settings and try many times just to know how to use it.
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Quote from: Thief^ on July 24, 2010, 04:39:15 am
I loaded up my save in the new version, spent a minute trying to find my archery range before figuring it was the room with Xs down both sides: bins of ammo and archery targets.
Urist McCrossbower cancells practice crossbowery: Unsure of which end of the room to shoot at.

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Re: New language?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2009, 04:04:38 pm »
Thank you. I'll give it a shot. What can be worse than manual labour? :D
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Quote from: Jingles on February 27, 2011, 07:09:32 am
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Re: New language?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2009, 04:16:43 pm »
Quote from: gumball135 on April 03, 2009, 04:04:38 pm
What can be worse than manual labour?

Dumb dwarf labour :P
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Quote from: James.Denholm on July 24, 2010, 08:41:14 am
Quote from: Thief^ on July 24, 2010, 04:39:15 am
I loaded up my save in the new version, spent a minute trying to find my archery range before figuring it was the room with Xs down both sides: bins of ammo and archery targets.
Urist McCrossbower cancells practice crossbowery: Unsure of which end of the room to shoot at.

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Re: New language?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2009, 04:19:15 pm »
Quote from: gumball135 on April 03, 2009, 04:04:38 pm
Thank you. I'll give it a shot. What can be worse than manual labour? :D

Upon reading the Wiki, I retract that statement.

Manual labour it is, then :P
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Quote from: Jingles on February 27, 2011, 07:09:32 am
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Re: New language?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2009, 06:02:54 pm »
If you only want different translations, and not different words, I can create a language file for you really easily.  What would you want it to sound like?

When I say translation and not word, I mean change STONE:lam to STONE:whatever.
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Re: New language?
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2009, 12:29:50 am »
would be great if someone converts this i an intuitive gui as exe or something :>
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Re: New language?
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2009, 11:17:42 am »
Wow, phi2dao, that'd be great. I don't really know what I'd like it to sound like. I'm going for a kind of tribal/aztec feel with these.

If it isn't any hastle, would you mind making 2-3 samples for me? Thanks a bunch.
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Quote from: Jingles on February 27, 2011, 07:09:32 am
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Re: New language?
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2009, 08:51:23 pm »
Okay, so I created two language files.  If they're not what your looking for, or they don't sound right, just tell me.  I not really sure what you meant by "tribal".

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=951
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=952
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Re: New language?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2009, 05:19:09 am »
Thank you. That's brilliant :D
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Quote from: Jingles on February 27, 2011, 07:09:32 am
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Re: New language?
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2009, 10:56:51 am »
Glad to have helped.
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