Hi guys from Modsonline,

I hope someone can help me with the following issue:

I am working on a mod (my first one, not a big thing), and I have to edit many localized strings. Everything okay, I compiled those strings into a fastfile (.ff) using the correct method, but when the game is loading the mod the following error appears:

Exceeded limit of 10240 'localize' assets.

I also had this problem in CoD4, I hoped this limit was removed in WaW.

I don't know a lot about the engine, but is it possible to solve this?

The error doesn't appear when I compile small string files (.str), but the big ones like menu.str contain to much assets.

What can you guys say about this thing?

I hope there is a solution, I don't like such limits. It limits the possibilities for mods.

These limits (xmodel, menufile, localise assets) can't be changed by anyone but Treyarch by releasing a patch for the mod tools, but there is almost no way that will happen.

Thanks you Dobby for answerring my topic.

I want to make a translation for CoD:WW. In COD2 it was possible because I could simply edit the IWD files. But in CoD4/WW I get this problem.

Is there another way to make a (Singleplayer) translation?

Not that I know of

This problem was also present in COD2, and is caused by having too many string references in one (1) .STR file.

Solution: break up your single string file into many more smaller
ones.

You are limited on how many .STR files you can have in total, but I doubt you would hit the limit.

NB: All .STF files must be compiled into fast file. You cannot run them in an IWD file.

Tally writes...Tally, thank you!! You have helped me a lot!

I will try out how far I can go. When my mod is ready I will post it also in this topic.

I know I have to compile the .str files into .ff files. ;) Thanks Tally!

Hm, I found that the limit is approximately 60 kb of total .str files.

For example:

I splitted credit.str in credit.str (57 kb) and credit2.str (11 kb) and I only loaded credit.str. It worked!

But now I loaded:

localize,credit
localize,ui

ui.str is 7 kb but the error appeared.

So it looks like it is not possible...

Do you have another hint for me?

Again it failed.

I found that the maximum allowed filesize of all .str files together is around the 60 kb.

For example, I splitted credit.str up in credit.str (57 kb) and credit2.str (11 kb).

localize,credit

I succesfully compiled and loaded credit.str.

localize,credit
localize,ui

But after compiling credit.str and ui.str (7 kb) together, the error appeared.

So it looks like it is not possible to load almost all .str files, just a little part of it.

Do you have more hints? Is there an alternative way to make a translation mod?

Not that I know of - so much for Treyarch getting rid of the modding limitations...