Resource Editor: 4 Creating A Translation File

To begin creating new Translation Files, double click on the "Res Edit" icon in the Tools folder of the WORLD directory of the original-language version of Ensemble 2.0.

This brings up a dialog box which gives you three choices:

Create New Translation File
Open a Translation File
Import an ASCII Translation File

Choose the "Create New" option. Another dialog box appears, allowing you to select the localization (.vm) file for the geode you wish to edit.

The first time you start the Resource Editor, it assumes you will be editing geodes in the GEOS20.NC directory, or whatever installation of GEOS you started in. Once you have a Translation File open, you can change the top-level directory by clicking on the "Set source directory" in the Project Menu. This setting is saved in your .ini file, so the next time you start ResEdit, it will automatically set the top-level source directory to what it was when exited.

To create a new Translation File for a geode that is not in the GEOS20 installation (or whichever installation is currently set as the top-level source directory), change the top-level source directory first--because you cannot access the Project menu with no Translation File open, you may need to create a new Translation File and keep it around until you can access the Project menu to change the Source directory.

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