Premades and Precepts » text http://channtastic.com sims 3 musings and occassional tirades. breaking down the simulated façade. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:33:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Today’s shameless plug: the STBLizer (TS3 String Importer) http://channtastic.com/2009/07/31/todays-shameless-plug-the-stblizer-ts3-string-importer/ http://channtastic.com/2009/07/31/todays-shameless-plug-the-stblizer-ts3-string-importer/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:36:39 +0000 chann http://channtastic.com/chann/2009/07/31/todays-shameless-plug-ts3-string-importer-tool/ So recently I’ve been delving deep into the the game’s localisation String Tables in hopes of reworking some of the game’s worst writing.I don’t know about other players, but to me a lot of the writing seems stilted and strangely-worded, as if EA outsourced the job of writing the English text to some foreign country.

Funnily enough, the recent 1.3 patch claims it corrects “several spelling and grammar mistakes”…it fixes exactly five! It also removes “Amanda” as a male name, if that counts as a grammatical error…

Anyway, I wrote a little C# program to make editing large chunks of game text slightly easier. It’s called the STBLizer and it lets you work with the strings in a CSV spreadsheet format, and simply import and export them to/from the STBL without needing to make changes one at a time in the other STBL editors currently available. You can download STBLizer from Mod The Sims. I thought that while I’ve been posting links to it on various sites, I might as well plug my shiny new tool on my personal blog while I’m at it.

There are a few better . Then again, AwesomeMod now has its own solution for that (custom name lists)

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