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| GWFreaks offer a first of a kind, a translated tool by and for the Guild Wars community.
Anyone will be free to translate, distribute and get credit for it's hard works, because it is not only an evening job. How language pack works?A language pack is everything that can be translated, from the skills description, to the application menu to images that contains text. Everything is put into a folder and the user can choose to use that language pack from the application.
A language pack will be associated with someone (it can be affiliated with a Guild or a Fan site) and that person will be able to update it as the game evolve. How to create a language pack?Download the package, fill out all information and send us back your package via the forum. The "translator" tool is a separated download that must be copied in the same folder as GWFreaks.exe because they sharing a lots of ressource. http://www.gwfreaks.com/download/gwfreaks_translate.zip
There is required information so that the package is "valid", those information are well explained in the translator application.
You can also provide a logo as credit:
A logo that fit into 255 * 20 pixel. The background must be #3A3A3A (RGB 58,58,58) and the image must be name btn_website.jpg. The logo will be display on the top right of the application and a link will be added to your web page if supplied.
It is also well recommended to start a thread with Language as title inside this topic to informed the community, that would be bad to have 2 person doing the same translation... You should also run only 1 application at the time (GWFreaks OR the Translation manager utility), because both shared the same XML, config file and resource files). Do I need to translate everything?No, the tool is always shipped with the English version, if you forget or omit to translate something, the value will be in English. So you could only translate the skills and don't translate the equipment.
If the value is the same as English, the value will not be saved... since the English value is the fallback.The translation utility is shipped with series of Photoshop files that are the master for those images, usually you can just update the text and add them into your language pack. Image must have the same name and put into the image folder located inside your language pack. Most of the image can have different width than the English one.
Can 2 person translate the same language?Yes, even if this is unlikely, 2 persons can decide to submit the same language, there is no exclusivity over a language.
We do not grant exclusivity because someone could for example translate the tool in German and stop playing and just don't want to update it anymore. Then that would block the German language to chapter one forever...
To prevent this, multiple people can submit the same language. We will NOT accept 2 versions identical or only with minor update (copy/paste another and change few description or spelling error is not considered as a valid language pack) The only reason we will accept the same language is if we feel that the original sender have stopped or don't want to update the language pack and important section are not translated. If you only translate part of the language pack, the owner can be fair and include your name in the Authors list.
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| | hi! i get this error when i try to start the manager: An exception 'System.IO.FileLoadEception' has occurred in gwfreaksmanager.exe what should i do? thank you |
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| | The version was old and not compatible with GWFreaks 3.0. I've update the package with all the updated manager. You can try again.
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