jcompton-notathome, on Nov 3 2002, 10:03 PM, said:
hey JC, you ever hear of testing BEFORE release? if yo u don't commit the strings to the .tlk you cannot test the mod, if you cannot test the mod then you will have to make lots of patches to fix the bugs later on, something that most people would rather not have to do3. You don't commit strings to your .tlk file until you're ready to release. You create a TP2 for "DL-Alpha Build" and when you're putting it together, you run Setup-DLAlpha.exe atop the core stripped down .tlk.
and I think this feature whould have been included from much earlier, I mean, have you actually looked through the TLK of bg2? I have and I have found that there are many many instances where there are 4, 5 or more strings that are almost exactly the same aside from a word or 2, a complete waste...even in the so called "stripdown" core tlks there are many strings that are duplicate and sshouldn't be in there, when I did the tlk for the TotSC stripdown I cut nearly 300kb from it from duplicate or nearly duplicate strings...and this was from the 'STRIPPED' tlk
