Extracting Strings

See Extracting Resources before proceeding. You must have gameresources.resources extracted.

A string is a sequence of characters (text) that appears literally.

Extracting Tools

BlangJsonGeneratorUI by PowerBall253 - DownloadModifies BLANG files and exports the changes as JSON.

BlangJsonGenerator by PowerBall253 - DownloadExports BLANG files into JSON, a format that can be edited with raw text editor, such as Notepad++.

BlangParser by proteh - DownloadDirectly modifies BLANG files with a simple GUI.

Currently, there are no released packages for BlangParser.You will either need to find a compiled version in the 2016+ Modding Discord serveror compile it with a C# compiler.

Each BLANG file usually range from 1.5 MB to 2 MB of storage.

Finding BLANG files

As of Update 6.66 - Rev 1.1, the highest-priority string files are located in gameresources_patch1\strings from your resource output directory.

Copy any language BLANG file of choice and paste is somewhere safe. This will be the string file that you will modify.

Extraction Instructions ( BlangJsonGenerator )

It is recommended to create a folder containing both "BlangJsonGenerator.exe" and the unmodified BLANG file.

Run "BlangJsonGenerator.exe".

Select option 1.

Input the name of the .blang file. ( ex: english.blang )

Input the language name. ( ex: english )

Input the name of the output file. ( ex: english.json )

Close the executable.

You may now edit each string value. See Creating String Mods for more information.

The output folder must end with .json

List of Resources

Resource Name

Information

english.blang

Contains strings for the English language

french.blang

Contains strings for the French language

german.blang

Contains strings for the German language

italian.blang

Contains strings for the Italian language

japanese.blang

Contains strings for the Japanese language

latin_spanish.blang

Contains strings for the Latin American Spanish language

polish.blang

Contains strings for the Polish language

portuguese.blang

Contains strings for the Portuguese language

russian.blang

Contains strings for the Russian language

simplified_chinese.blang

Contains strings for the Simplified Chinese language

spanish.blang

Contains strings for the European Spanish language

traditional_chinese.blang

Contains strings for the Traditional Chinese language