Editing .lng files

[Rocketz]

Hey i'm new!
Since you can't save your custom vehicle names in OTTD i wanted to change them in the .lng file. How can you edit them? which tools are needed?
Yeah i know there's an original vehicle name.lng file but it's in english and i'd like to have german language with the real vehicle names.
I'd also like to use the original models instead of sets. Can anyone help me with this?

[Gremnon]

You can't actually change the .lng files, but if you get the source instead of a precompiled, you can edit the .txt files that get turned into the .lng ones.

[DaleStan]

Or you can create a GRF; then you don't have to keep updating it and/or make sure it never gets overwritten.

[Rocketz]

thx for your answers...but what's the easiest way to create a grf just for vehicle names? all that grf stuff looks complicated just for changing names.
thought that grf was for graphics only

[DaleStan]

thx for your answers...but what's the easiest way to create a grf just for vehicle names?

Same way you'd create any other GRF. Read the tutorial, read the relevant spec pages, download grfcodec and nforenum, open Notepad, and go for it.

Not necessarily in that order, though.

[Rocketz]

unfortunately the "nameyourvehicle" tutorial isn't ready yet
isn't there an easy way like creating a txt file:
[VehicleID] [VehicleName]
00 Train1
01 Train2

then some nice tool with which you can select the txt file and convert it to .grf or something.
or does anyone know if the save custom vehicle name feature will be fixed in the next ottd version?

[LordAzamath]

It can't be fixed because the saving of custom vehicle names is not implemented..
The buttons that give that option are only for legacy I guess.. Anyway, it's pretty easy to do it via newGRF.

<Sprite-number> * <Length> 04 <feature> <language-id> <num-ent> <offset> <text>

So for a SH '30', it would be

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-1 * 00 04 00 7f 01 17 "My new awesome train" 

-1 is the sprite number.. Renum will put it correct..
* shows that it's a pseudosprite
00 shows the count of bytes in the sprite.. it's actually a lot more, but Renum will fix that too
04 shows that it's Action4
00 shows that the it's changing a train name
7f shows that it changes the name for all languages. Unless you want to make it language specific, I think it's good to use 7f.. Not sure
01 means that we want to change only one string.
17 is the ID of the train so it knows what to substitute
and the last one is the string itself..
@DaleStan, Does the string need 00 added too to end? And if I made some mistakes explaining, please correct them Or anyone else

[Eddi]

i would assume the 00 is missing at the end.

[DaleStan]

@DaleStan, Does the string need 00 added too to end?

What does NFORenum say?

[LordAzamath]

I just pulled it out of TTDP wiki and a bit from my memories.. Don't even have any [*]TTD[*] installed atm. Nor I had any renum downloaded..
Generally I could of just got them too, but I really don't think I'd do any coding in next few months (even not lua scripting), so I just wrote what I knew without making too big investments into backing it up.

[Rocketz]

ty very much it worked

i just had to add
0 * 4 0D 00 00 00
1 * 8 08 06 "TW" 03 05 00 00

in the nfo file also to be able to activate the .grf i hope no graphics will be messed up using the first line...but it doesn't work without it

now i just have to change the names

[Eddi]

the first line tells how many lines you have in your NFO file (you can leave that on 00 00 00 00 and grfcodec will tell you what it thinks it should add there), in the second line you can give a name and a description for your grf. none of these "mess up" anything

[mohomed imam]

I want to create a lang file in my mother language and generate to the game. is there have any ways to do it? pls

[jfs]

I want to create a lang file in my mother language and generate to the game. is there have any ways to do it? pls

Please see this thread: viewtopic.php?t=86894

Short answer: It's a lot of work starting a new language translation up. It can be done, but on your own it's hard.