SC2Mapster

It's happening to my map! How can I fix it? (I know it has something to do with localization, but please explain it to me as if I don't know anything about it [which I don't])

If your map uses localized strings for only one language, it will automatically use that for all languages. If you added multiple languages, it will only display each string to its respective language, everything else shows as Param/Value.
This usually happens, if 2 people using different editor language versions edit the same map.

To fix this, follow these steps:

• Open your map in the Galaxy Editor
  
• Save it as a component list (File -> Save As -> Data Type: Component List)
  
• Close the Galaxy editor
  
• Go to the folder containing your component list
  
• You will see multiple folders containing localized strings. They are named according to the language, for example enGB.SC2Data for european english or enUS.SC2Data for american english
  
• Merge all text files contained in those folders (there are multiple files, for example GameStrings.txt or TriggerStrings.txt). If some files are present for multiple languages, copy&paste the content of one file to the other.
  
• Decide for one language to keep (you probably might want to use your own editor language version) and put all merged files into your desired language folder
  
• Delete the other language folders completely
  
• Open the ComponentList.SC2Components file with a text editor
  
• Find all lines resembling the language (they look like this: <DataComponent Type="text" Locale="enGB">GameText</DataComponent> ) and delete all of those lines, except the one holding your desired language
  
• Save everything and open the component list in your SC2 editor
  
• Save it as a map file again (make sure you keep a backup!)

I got all the way to the last step, but when I tried to open it in the editor, it said:

Unable to load file (XML: mismatched tag): ComponentList.SC2Components

What did I do wrong?

The error message suggests, you have a syntax error in your component list. Post the text of your component list here, please.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> <Components> <Optimized/> </DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="info">DocumentInfo</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="mapi">MapInfo</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="trig">Triggers</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="terr">t3Terrain.xml</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="plob">Objects</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="gada">GameData</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="text" Locale="enUS">GameText</DataComponent> <DataComponent Type="regi">Regions</DataComponent> </Components>

Code- tags would be nice :D

Try this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?> 
<Components> 
	<DataComponent Type="info">DocumentInfo</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="mapi">MapInfo</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="trig">Triggers</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="terr">t3Terrain.xml</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="plob">Objects</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="gada">GameData</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="text" Locale="enUS">GameText</DataComponent> 
	<DataComponent Type="regi">Regions</DataComponent> 
</Components>

I removed: <Optimized/> </DataComponent> , probably your second or third line.

Quote from Kueken531: Go

Code- tags would be nice :D .

Sorry man xD

I'll try this and post my results. Thanks in advance.

IT WORKED!

THANKS SO MUCH KUEKEN! I WUV YOU as a friend

@DarcZaFire: Go

http://www.sc2mapster.com/assets/sc2-localizer/ I just used this and everything is working fine. Need to use it always when any text is modified in the editor though.

sc2localizer is long ago broken, if you read the comments on that thread.

My localizer works.... maybe it's not the same localizer then...

Localizer works for some maps, for mine it didn't. Also, localizer copys the text to all available languages, which unnecessarily increases map size by a huge amount.

@Kueken531: Go

oh ok thanks for info about map size. Can I just delete unneeded language stuff from components? Works with old maps right?

Quote from BloodClud: Go

oh ok thanks for info about map size. Can I just delete unneeded language stuff from components? Works with old maps right?

If you used the localizer before, you can indeed just delete all but 1 language files from the components list, since all these files will have the same content.

@DarcZaFire: Go

as far as I know fixing localization errors is easy if you know what localization your partner uses and which one you use.
After getting the map back from your partner, you open it with a mpq editor/save it as a compenents list. then go to the localizations directory.
go into the folder with your partners localization, open the files there.
next go into the folder with your localization, open the files there and copy the data from your partners files into your files.
and there you go, you added his changes to your changes. now all you have to do is remove his locale from the map and he should also see the correct values until he starts editing again.