[QUESTION] Spell.dbc and languages

[Twentynine]

Well... first, i'm sorry for my english, now... to the point here.

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=4177

its something similar to that post there, the problem is, i have my own server, the DB is kind of double, first the english one, and inside that one its and spanish one, so that everyone that enters the server with any of those languages can see every npc or spell in their own language, now the problem is first:

wich one should i Mod to create and modify spells, and... is there a way to put the two of them in a MPQ archive?

 besides this, the dbcutil and csved and all that doesn't seem to work, i've read that this problem is resolved using this, but didnt work, so i'm tryng to see what am i doing wrong.

when i edited the english spell.dbc only people with the game in english could see everything well, spanish was all wrong, every spell lost their descriptions and names and everything, when i edited the spanish one, nothing happened (probably because of a mistake i have to retry this) so... what am i doing wrong, or what do i do to make this work for both languages, thats all, thanks to everyone

[schlumpf]

Prior to Cata you can have all languages within one DBC by just filling out the additional columns, which are empty otherwise. If you do not have translations for that specific language, just add the English one as well, so that the game at least contains something in case a user of an unsupported locale joins. Tell them to give you their spell.dbc in order to add the translations to your multi-language one.

[Twentynine]

is there an easy way to do that?

is there any way to fix dbcutil and csved so they can work as they should? cause aparently to most people that was a solution to  this problem...

[Ascathos]

.csv is excel-readable.

[stoneharry]

.csv is excel-readable.

Spell DBC cannot be converted to CSV using DBCUtil.

[Ascathos]

.csv is excel-readable.

Spell DBC cannot be converted to CSV using DBCUtil.

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Sorry to say that, but I think I am doing it wrong then  :shock:

[stoneharry]

.csv is excel-readable.

Spell DBC cannot be converted to CSV using DBCUtil.

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Sorry to say that, but I think I am doing it wrong then  :shock:

What is your version of DBCUtil? The public version is not able to and when I have asked before people have just said "this is my private version". This led me to write my own spell DBC editor.

edit:

Apparently I can convert it... What. I always got buffer overflow errors before, and people I spoke to had the same issue. Weird.

[Ascathos]

nneonneo's DBC <-> CSV Converter
1.3.2.0

No idea where I got it from. Don't think I got it privately though.

[deep6ixed]

When I merged German and English Dbc files I used myDbcEditor.

Mind you I'm not at my computer, but the general steps are the same, but the wording might not be.

1.) Open the English DBC file and click the menu option for export strings as patch, save this file .
2.) Open the Spanish dbc file and select apply patch, using the the one you extracted from the previous step.