I'll ask straight ahead - what is the purpose of localized strings? At first I thought, to adjust proper strings to a levels ( missions ) according to a language the game is set to. I'm not so sure about it though ...

I've recently started experimenting with localized strings, so I opened a simple file and added following code ( to make it clear, I have "POLISH" language of my game ):

REFERENCE           TEST
LANG_ENGLISH        "English"
LANG_POLISH        "Polish"

ENDMARKER

When I run it, "Polish" string came out. That's good ... I guess. But then I changed the order of entries like following:

REFERENCE           TEST
LANG_POLISH        "Polish"
LANG_ENGLISH        "English"

ENDMARKER

... and now the string "English" showed up ... I figured out, that the game picks up a string that is at the end of a single reference ( in this case - "TEST" ) and applies it to a level. Is it supposed to be this way? Do I have to make separate versions of "*.iwd" files to make it playable by Polish users and the English ones as well? Do localized strings work the same way in other CoD games, like 1, 4, 5 etc. ? I just ... want to make sure, because it makes no sense to me ...

Tomalla

I do believe you have to have different versions of an *.iwd file. I say this because if you look at any "main" folder, you have files named "localized_[language]_iw*.iwd" which has the localized strings and sounds for that language. However, I am not fully sure about this, but that's how I see it. Sorry if this poses an inconvenience for downloading (such as auto download on a server or similar things)