Question about names

[Spartiaths]

To the eb team :
Why you wrote greek names in english? Meaning :
Spartiatai Hoplitai --> Σπαρτιάται Οπλίται (η Σπαρτιάτες Οπλίτες)

[Tiberius Nero]

It reflects the classical Greek pronunciation; if you mean why they didn't use Greek fonts, probably the engine doesn't support them and few would be able to read them anyway. Σπαρτιάτες Οπλίτες is modern Greek, so it is out of the timeframe...

[bovi]

We'd rather not use 15 different alphabets in our game. Who among us would be able to read Saka script?

[Ibrahim]

saka script? show...

[bovi]

Why? What would it tell you? Not that I have any such text anyway...

[Ibrahim]

I don't want to read-just look.

[Bacchus]

lol...talking about scripting problems...

heheh

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

The Sakae had an alphabet?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

We made the decision early on to just use the English alphabet, though accent marks are ok. So we transliterate. That's the bottom line.

[Tellos Athenaios]

We can put in the Greek characters itself, but we would lose on the ditractric signs - making this all a bit of a moot point. (We would go from something people can at least more or less read to something people can't read, as well as being plain wrong.) The reason is that despite the encoding (UTF-8) of the text files supports them; the font the game engine uses does not. Simply put: adding characters with the appropiate ditractic signs looks fine in your editor, yet it results in rectangles or question marks (as in: character not supported) in the game.

You might say: nevermind now about the ditractric signs etc.; if you put the translation there like you currently do it's already much more immersive. At least do this for the quotes where it doesn't really matter too much if anybody can actually read it... To which I must reply: not even spirita are supported in these fonts ...

Of course, if anyone happened to have a working TTF -> CUF converter half the modding folks would be most eager to know. Until then only hex-editing the files is an option, which requires you to know *what* every byte actually is/signifies.

I agree that especially for the quotes it would look much better to have the original alphabets instead of the transliterations -- but with a font that gives up beyond plain Greek characters this is simply impossible. There are fonts out there that 'wrap' all the alphabets into one package, but again -- anybody got a converter?