Dr.Mario Asset Localization Worksheet (汉化制作表)

Message Text Translation

• input: assets/mes/*.mes
• output: assets/mes/*_zh.mes
• notes:
  • translate the text in between double quotes, preserve the rest of the texts
  • preserve all special characters preceded with "~"
  • preserve letters A, B, C, Z, L, R

Character Font Glyph

• input:
  • assets/mes/*_zh.mes
• output:
  • assets/font/font_c.bmp, assets/font/font_c2.bmp (12x12 font glyph bmp)
• tools: Photoshop, Yongzhi's character generation tools
• notes:
  • use assets/font/font_c.bmp & assets/font/font_c2.bmp as example
  • for each unique Chinese character used in the *_zh.mes files, generate a font glyph at size 12x12
  • the output bmp files should be indexed 8bit bmp, use the same color index table as the ones in assets/font/font_c.bmp & assets/font/font_c2.bmp

Texture

• input:
  • assets/texture/*/*.bmp
• output:
  • assets/texture_zh/*/*.bmp
• tools: Photoshop
• notes:
  • translate the bmp files that have English text in them, generate the corresponding Chinese texture bmp files
  • keep color schemes consistent
  • keep the original dimension of the images

3D Models & Animations (TBD)

• input: assets/story_bmp/*
• output: tranlsated 3D models and animation sequences
• tools: Maya, lightwave3D (?)
• notes:
  • there are a few animated 3D models in Dr.Mario (such as Dr.Mario splash screen, "win", "lose", "congratulations"...), they were originally produced using LightWave3D
  • if we can use Maya and convert the models to the LightWave3D format, that would be great
  • if not, we need to have LightWave3D