Human and also when i open a new company???
Not yet.
At least not within the game itself - but there is way to do it.
EDIT:
(check this part of the archives (http://archive.forum.simutrans.com/topic/06294.0/index.html#msg57068) where I explained how to do it in the past.)
thank you.but i tried,i can't get any XX_su-01_players.tab in folder "text"
p.s.i am using 101.0
What do you mean you "can't get any" ? Just download the file from my (linked) posting there, rename it (to whatever you want, as long as it starts with your language's signature characters - e.g. "en" for english - and put it into simutrans\pakxyz\text . It doesn't replace any existing file there, if you're looking for that.
Then open it (use wordpad or another good editor - but not standard windows notepad!) and change the names inside to whatever you like. It's simple.
Uhmpf. The file Dirk offers will also remove all other texts.
First, take your language file (XX.tab) and make a backup. Obviously any name works as it is preferably in another folder ;)
Now edit the original translation file in an editor that saves correctly with linux-style line endings (LF only) and locate names of players. For example, search for "player -1". Format of translation files is one line original, one line translation, so change just the few lines with player names, save and you are done.
If it breaks this translation, either your text editor messed up line endings, or you managed to delete a line.
If it works, congrats, you just customized Simutrans! :)
No! This is not true! The normal texts will stay in (let's keep that example for the english setting) in the already existing en.tab. That file will
not be touched and so nothing is going to be lost! As I said: we're not replacing any files! The new file will simply be added into the same folder. And it only contains new text strings for the company names (and these will replace the original ones since those are loaded from simutrans\text - and everything from simutrans\pakxyz\text overrules those settings - so will this file.
Use this one, replace the "xx" with your language's characters and then edit it - that's all.
EDIT:
The advantage of this method is, when you download a newer version of your pakset, all standard language files will be overwritten - so you'd have to do it all again, every time you update. By using a separate extra file, all you have to do is copy that over - and you're ready to go again. (That's why I came up with this method instead of editing the normal text files.)
Either you replace with new file and lose all pakset translations, or add the file and create a new language, and lose all pakset texts too (since the file contains just players).
Simu reads just xx.tab in simutrans/text and xx.tab in simutrans/pak/text. Nothing else.
Here's where you are wrong. It reads
everything starting with xx - just try it, I'm working with this all the time. If it didn't work for me, I wouldn't tell people to do it, would I? ;)
Well then, it does not work here. I am sorry, just do try your file renamed to "en" as you suggested, with latest nightly. I'm looking at the code and it does not do that.
Interesting. ??? In Czech or English?
Just to make sure:
1) you downloaded the file I have posted here in this thread ("xx_company_names.tab")
2) you renamed it to "cz_company_names.tab" (or "en_company_names.tab")
3) you put into simutrans\pak128\text
4) you restarted simutrans
5) your player list was not different from what it usually is?
English.
And now I feel like an idiot - it works, despite the fact that the file language is loaded by taking the section between last / or \ and four characters from end (.tab)
EDIT2: ARGH ARGH ARGH! The languages are taken as whole file name, but compared just hteir first two letters! That's why it works!
works for me ever since 99.14 and before - up to the r2293
Sorry for confusion. Would you believe that I copied the file to wrong Simutrans instance? Well and the code is not particularly clear, either ::)
spm: Dirk was right. You can just add a file xx_blabbityblah.tab and it modifies the parts of translation that are in it.
Oh yes, I believe that! ;) The same happened to me just a few days ago on another issue. ;D
This would also allow to supply add-on pak files with translations, if I understood this right.
thanks all,i put en_su-01_players.tab in pak128\text,but nothing changed.......did i use the wrong .tab file name?
@Whoami:
Yes, that's exactly right.
@spm:
Just to make sure - you play with English a language, right? Make sure you follow the 5 point checklist I asked VS about above.
...now i am at home,it works!!!Thanks dirrrtydirk!but i don't know why nothing change in my office's computer...thanks all again!!!!!!!
DirrrtyDirk:
oh no,when i use your file "xx_company_names",after i rename it to "en_company_names",its work!but after i change your name,A...>......co.
B..>....co.
then i restart the game,it retrun to default"Human"....
What program did you use to do these changes? Some editors cannot handle the required line breaks correctly (like windows' notepad, for example). My guess is the file got "corrupted" in some way by your attempt on editing it.
i use wordpad to change the .tab
Hmmm... I think I remember that it worked with wordpad - I just checked, and it does not work (anymore), sorry.
Ok, you need something else then... Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/) is a good choice
Its Work!!!!!!!Thank you for details!!!Thank you very much!!!!!!!
is there a simpler way to change name from 'human' to anything else other than: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1432.0
Sorry (somethings gone wrong here..)
That is good to know. Just a few days ago I tried to explain someone how to edit en.tab to add new building descriptions ... much easier with a separate file!
Nothing went wrong, there was just no reason to start a new thread, so I merged your thread here. :)
Ah :)