[SOLVED] Translated Description / Thumbnail Image for SpawnRegions

[stuck1a]

Hi there,

 

I have a map mod with multiple map directories.

However, I would like to define my own collection of spawn points as several spawn regions, so I've added three more Map Directories which each represent one of such spawn regions.

The spawn regions are displayed and basically works, but neither the description text nor the thumbnail are displayed in multiplayer. But it works fine in single player.

 

I was at least able to translate the titles with a custom solution. But I guess, this should be possible by the core logic itself.

 

This is my folder structure:

 

 

map.info

title=Green Zone
lots=Muldraugh, KY
description=Initial Description Green Zone
fixed2x=true

description.txt

Übersetzte Beschreibung für grüne Zonen

title.txt

(1) Starte in einer grünen Zone

objects.lua (shortened for better readability)

objects = {
  { name = "", type = "SpawnPoint", x = 10916, y = 10133, z = 0, width = 1, height = 1, properties = { Professions = "all" } },
  { name = "", type = "SpawnPoint", x = 10803, y = 10073, z = 0, width = 1, height = 1, properties = { Professions = "all" } },
  { name = "", type = "SpawnPoint", x = 10919, y = 10132, z = 0, width = 1, height = 1, properties = { Professions = "all" } },
  -- ...
}

spawnpoints.lua

function SpawnPoints()
  return {
    unemployed = {
      { worldX = 36, worldY = 33, posX = 116, posY = 233, posZ = 0 },
      { worldX = 36, worldY = 33, posX = 3, posY = 173, posZ = 0 },
      { worldX = 36, worldY = 33, posX = 119, posY = 232, posZ = 0 },
    }
  }
end

 

DebugServer_spawnregions.lua

function SpawnRegions()
  return {
    { name = '(1) Green Zone',  file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = '(2) Yellow Zone', file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = '(3) Red Zone',    file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone/spawnpoints.lua' }
  }
end

 

 

Rendered Result:

 

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My workaround to get at least the names translated

I've added an file spawnregions.txt to my map mods Translate dir as follows:

return {
  ['EN'] = {
    GreenZone = '(1)  Start in a green zone',
    YellowZone = '(2)  Start in a yellow zone',
    RedZone = '(3)  Start in a red zone',
  },
  ['DE'] = {
    GreenZone = '(1)  Starte in einer gr\195\188nen Zone',
    YellowZone = '(2)  Starte in einer gelben Zone',
    RedZone = '(3)  Starte in einer roten Zone',
  }
}

 

 

And modified my DebugServer_spawnregions.lua as follows:

function SpawnRegions()
  local activeLang = getCore():getOptionLanguageName()
  local sGreenZone = '(1) Start in a green zone'
  local sYellowZone = '(2) Start in a yellow zone'
  local sRedZone = '(3) Start in a red zone'
  local translationTable = {}
  if getActivatedMods():contains('GartenEdenMaps') then
    local file =  getModFileReader('GartenEdenMaps', 'media/lua/shared/Translate/spawnregions.txt', false)
    if file then
      local scanline = file:readLine()
      local content = scanline and '' or 'return {}'
      while scanline do
        content = content .. scanline .. '\n'
        scanline = file:readLine()
      end
      file:close()
      translationTable = loadstring(content)()
      if translationTable[activeLang] ~= nil then
        sGreenZone = translationTable[activeLang].GreenZone or sGreenZone
        sYellowZone = translationTable[activeLang].YellowZone or sYellowZone
        sRedZone = translationTable[activeLang].RedZone or sRedZone
      end
    end
  end
  return {
    { name = 'Muldraugh, KY', file = 'media/maps/Muldraugh, KY/spawnpoints.lua' }, -- just as reference
    { name = sGreenZone, file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = sYellowZone, file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = sRedZone, file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone/spawnpoints.lua' }
  }
end

 

 

So I was able to get this result:

 

 

 

 

In singleplayer it looks like follows:

(just borrowed image of bedford to ensure the image file isn't the problem)

 

 

 

 

So what the heck do I wrong?

 

Thanks in advance,

stuck1a

 

 

Edited December 21, 2022 by stuck1a
prefixed [SOLVED]

[EasyPickins]

DebugServer_spawnregions.lua should look like this, where name is the map folder:

function SpawnRegions()
  return {
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone',  file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone', file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone',    file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone/spawnpoints.lua' }
  }
end

Then add one folder for each map containing description.txt and title.txt to media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/ as you did in the translate/DE/ folder.
media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/title.txt would contain "(1) Green Zone" for example.

[stuck1a]

On 12/15/2022 at 8:11 PM, EasyPickins said:

DebugServer_spawnregions.lua should look like this, where name is the map folder:

function SpawnRegions()
  return {
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone',  file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone', file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsYellowZone/spawnpoints.lua' },
    { name = 'GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone',    file = 'media/maps/GartenEdenSpawnsRedZone/spawnpoints.lua' }
  }
end

Then add one folder for each map containing description.txt and title.txt to media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/ as you did in the translate/DE/ folder.
media/lua/shared/Translate/EN/GartenEdenSpawnsGreenZone/title.txt would contain "(1) Green Zone" for example.

 

How embarrassing... I could have figured that out myself, the Java code is pretty clear. Thanks a lot for your help!

Now everything works as excepted.