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games:worldofwarships [2018-01-20 15:16] – [Replacing Steven Seagal unique commander] gabrielgames:worldofwarships [2018-01-20 15:24] (current) – [Replacing Steven Seagal unique commander] gabriel
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 I use GIMP and the DDS plugin for this: I use GIMP and the DDS plugin for this:
  
-https://www.gimp.org/ +  * https://www.gimp.org/ 
-https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-dds/ +  * https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-dds/ 
-https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-normalmap/+  * https://code.google.com/archive/p/gimp-normalmap/
  
 I will use the RN cruiser Leander as an example and replace the 2017 camo that was a campaign reward from Santa's Christmas Convy. I will use the RN cruiser Leander as an example and replace the 2017 camo that was a campaign reward from Santa's Christmas Convy.
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   - Portrait   - Portrait
-  - Name 
   - Voice   - Voice
 +  - Name
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 +==== Portrait ====
  
 Changing the portrait and voice are fairly straightforward, you can simply use one of the standard US portraits and voices.  Changing the name requires modifying the translation file and unfortunately this change doesn't survive patch updates to it needs to be made after every update. Changing the portrait and voice are fairly straightforward, you can simply use one of the standard US portraits and voices.  Changing the name requires modifying the translation file and unfortunately this change doesn't survive patch updates to it needs to be made after every update.
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 Choose any portrait and the corresponding overlay files from the same directories and rename them to overwrite the Seagal PNG files in ''res_mods\$VERSION''. Choose any portrait and the corresponding overlay files from the same directories and rename them to overwrite the Seagal PNG files in ''res_mods\$VERSION''.
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 +==== Voice ====
  
 To replace the voice files, extract the audio files for the US captain from this location: To replace the voice files, extract the audio files for the US captain from this location:
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 Next, modify the ''mod.xml'' config file you extracted to this folder and replace the ''<Name>EN</Name>'' attribute with ''<Name>Seagal</Name>''. Next, modify the ''mod.xml'' config file you extracted to this folder and replace the ''<Name>EN</Name>'' attribute with ''<Name>Seagal</Name>''.
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 +==== Name ====
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 +Finally, to change the name it is necessary to modify the text strings in the gettext translations file.  This file is not extracted, but is part of the actual game installation, and can be found here:
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 +''C:\Games\World_of_Warships\res\texts\en\LC_MESSAGES\global.mo''
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 +This is the compiled version and will need to be decompiled using gettext and can be done online [[http://tools.konstruktors.com/|here]].
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 +Once you have the ''global.po'' version of the file, you can modify it using an editor such as [[https://poedit.net/|Poedit]] by replacing the translation string for IDS_SEAGAL with another name such as [[http://ussstlouis.net/dec_7th_1941.htm|George Rood]].
 ===== Modifying custom models for individual ships ===== ===== Modifying custom models for individual ships =====
  
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