Don't wait for my next update! Although the date is near it's not set. And: You can always start a new game...
Looking at the VIP:R 0.4 release there are an additional 304 pictures available to be used by events. I can't tell you if all of these are actually used, but they do add some variety.
thank you! And I'm look forward to next upload!File re-uploaded
Files uploaded on filefactory are deleted if there are no downloads for 3(?) weeks. Happens for my other mods regularly. For VIP:R this is a first IIRC. Players seem to be eagerly awaiting Victoria 3.
The next upload should be ready next weekend...
i understand. I speak french and play to vic french. Many mods are in english so for me this mod is great. This is so good to have modders like you for this old game. I play only to vic and eu3 with the mod eu3plus. I did a translation of this mod (not the events because too much) for eu3 because this is the best. It is really borring to do a translation! I will never do again. And I know that I will play these 2 games for many years. Thank you for all the time you spend to this job.You're welcome. I'm glad you like it.
But, to be honest, I'm just keeping VIP:R alive, credit goes to the original mod team which has built one of the largest Paradox mods od all time.
By the way, if you click on CREDITS in the main menu, you can see the list of contributors to VIP:R, which is quite impressive.
I fully understand you. Originally I always played games in German, but often the user interface didn't fit, because menus, pop-ups and buttons are usually designed with regard to the English language, i.e. that these don't fit for languages which have "longer" words.
yes. For EU3 i have 2 instalations. One in english (translate but with : language= 1_english in setting.txt) for play to EU3 Plus. And an other vanilla in french. For the vanilla I used Gimp for do new interface textures and I used some fonts from vic2 because EU3's fonts are too small. After that I did some modifications in .csv files in location folder and now its perfect.I fully understand you. Originally I always played games in German, but often the user interface didn't fit, because menus, pop-ups and buttons are usually designed with regard to the English language, i.e. that these don't fit for languages which have "longer" words.
Eventually I switched to English to avoid these issues, but also to play with mods.
VIP:R was almost entirely in English which automatically excluded players who preferred their native language. So my intention was to make VIP:R more accessible to players who speak other languages than English.
Sure, my hotfix would not have been possible without machine translations (e.g. DeepL). These are still not perfect, but do their job most of the time. So I can only encourage you to take a closer look at DeepL and do some testing. Translating large amounts of text this way is tedious, but it's worth it. So you might finally consider a full translation of EU3 Plus...
My guess is that it's just a matter of time, that most (active) major mods will be fully translated. Although it was a huge amount of work translating VIP:R (the size of the event_txt.csv file increased by 10,000 A4 pages), I'm still convinced that it was a good move to go this way.
If you use the English text as placeholder for the missing French text, you can also set EU3 (with EU3 Plus) to French instead of English.
Why did you do that? Did you try to enlarge the backgrounds of the event pop-up windows?
Using V2 fonts for EU3 is a neat trick.
When playing with a larger screen resolution, you must adhere to certain restrictions, otherwise the text becomes almost unreadable. Thanks, I'll try that, too.Although DeepL can translate entire documents, this is not recommended since it will translate as much as possible (including ALL_PEOPLE_IS_HAPPY). No, translations with DeepL are a bit more tedious:
About translation: eu3Plus works perfectly in english. If I put French in setting the game stops (not a CTD). Just stops. So I used Ctrl+Alt+delette for close the game. In a first time I translate in french but the bug was always there. I saw that there was many (beaucoup in french) translations who missed in french. So i decided to put english in settings. Then i did thousands (des centaines in french) of copy paste for put the french on the english. At this time I didnot know tha it was possible to use excel to move columns!If you use the English text as placeholder for the missing French text, you can also set EU3 (with EU3 Plus) to French instead of English.
Why did you do that? Did you try to enlarge the backgrounds of the event pop-up windows?
Using V2 fonts for EU3 is a neat trick.
Although DeepL can translate entire documents, this is not recommended since it will translate as much as possible (including ALL_PEOPLE_IS_HAPPY). No, translations with DeepL are a bit more tedious:
The .csv files are actually spreadsheets, which can be modified by using Excel (or LibreOffice) - although that is not recommended for modding. Nonetheless, for mass-translations this is a necessity. Select the English column and copy 50-100 cells over to DeepL. Keep in mind that there is a 5000 character limit, so that you might have to cut your copied cells by deleting them in the left window of DeepL. Once finished, copy the translated text into the French column of the .csv file. Start again with copying the text from the English column, starting from the point where you had to shorten the text of your first translation. ...
#1 You don't have to install the Pop Splitter at all. Simply open its sub-directory in the main menu of your game and run its exe. Then click "Select File" and go to the sub-directory "...\scenarios\save games" and select your savegame. Alternatively you can open the config.cfg file with an editor and change line 13: "GAMEDIR = ...", so that you can click "AutoSplit".
#2 Old vanilla savegames can't be used for playing VIP:R. Once you've installed VIP:R your old savegames, vanilla scenarios or other mods might work for a short time but you'll probably experience missing string errors. This happens because of a rework of the vanilla event files by VIP:R whose strings (e.g. in the event_text.csv file) have been renamed.
#3 The gfx mods (named bebro_*) can be used for playing vanilla or other mods. The Leaderpack can be used for playing vanilla and several but not all mods.
Missing (translated) text has usually a negative effect on your running game. Ricky usually has a CTD then.
The text of events gets very tiny once you increase your screen resolution beyond 1024×768. After playing for some time most of the menus are well known so that you don't have to read the descriptions any longer, but the text of events would be really nice to read at first glance. Thus I've usually played at 1024×768.
That is a good work-around, but - by looking at your screenshots - it increases the size of all text. EU3 does - similar to Victoria - dislike overly long text on buttons etc. You worked your way around this by shortening the text of several buttons. That is something which I've only done occasionally for VIP:R because it's very time-consuming.In the \interface sub-directory of EU3 you will find the menubar.gui file. If you open it with Notepad++ and search for "shortcut =" or "shortcut" you will get to the hotkeys of EU3. I haven't checked closely, but there you might change the hotkey for PAUSE, which will probably solve your original bug (which might have its cause in playing with a laptop). There are even more shortcut commands to be found in this sub-directory, which are split across several files - if you use the search function of Notepad++ to search all files in that directory. Yep, Notepad++ is a very useful modding tool! Never work without it!
