CRES.DLL

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CRES.DLL

This file is the text language file used in nolf, it contains all the conversations, objectives text, subtitles, name of objects etc. The reason why this file is a stand alone file is that nolf was released in many languages. The idea with this tutorial is to add new lines of text to the cres.dll file and recompile it.
I find VS2019 very sluggish and confusing to deal with in this case, and use notepad++ instead

Finding the strings in the source code



So let's find the text "Sleeping Gas Grenade" and its reference id as an example:

ClientRez.h is the referense file used to localize the actual language string


The defined this as IDS_WEAPON_29 and with the referanse id 4028
The name IDS_WEAPON_29 has no special significance other than that it needs to be the same in both files.

ClientRes.rc


There are 5 versions of this file German [DE], Engligh [EN], Spanish [ES], French [FR] and Italian [IT]
I went for the English one, and it tells me that IDS_WEAPON_29 refers to "Sleeping Gas Grenade"

So in a nutshell:


For example to send a missiontext to the player, you would use this id



Adding a new string

Let add a new string shall we, my creative mind came up with this:

This is a new string, containing some text

Open up the ClientRes.rc for the language you want to use, english in this case

Invent a creative unique reference, and type in your text.


Then make a referance to it in ClientRes.h


All you need to watch out for here is that you pick a ID that doesn't already exist, 33700 seemed like a good place to start. My next id would have been 33701 and so on.


Finishing up

All you need to do then is rebuild the source code (Final,x86)
and create a new (English*) CRES.DLL to put inside your mod.

For more about building the source code, click here.

Your newly built CRES.DLL can be found in:
nolf2-modernizer-master/Game/built/Final/ClientRes/TO2/

Note: If you are going all the way and making your mod avaiable in every language,
this will result in 5 different CRES.DLL files and 5 different rez files.
To create a German CRES.DLL, you would choose Final DE, x86 when building.
The source is however only set up to build Final/Debug right now.