Au Francais
Would you like to read SA in French? This guy is doing a translation. The advantage of the CC license!
He's starting with the quickstart and moving on from there.
Au Francais
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SA in French.
I've put a temporary version of the demo pdf online : http://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2009/11/15/ix458n4/
Titles are still not translated, the main font is temporary, et the text still need several editions.
Still one or two months before it's ready….
Very cool! I need to remember to send you the original files for the headers and border.
I've worked, so far, with images extracted from the originaly pdf…
For fonts, I don't really want to use Optima, which is a bit too classic (it reminds Classic Traveller).
I'd like something stylish, possibly with nice ligatures… I'm still making tests.
Hey, Colin, don't forget us !
The French demo is almost ready, we just need your "naked" borders & headers (so we can write frogspeak on them).
Thank you for the reminders. I've put a TIFF version up at this location. Let me know if it doesn't work; I can change the encoding settings until you have something readable.
I can take the titles off. Give me a few days. You'll want something on the order of GIMP or Photoshop to put the titles back in; many of them have layer effects.
Ok, never let me use the phrase "a couple days" again.
The civilization headers without text can be found at this location. They're all in TIFF format. If you need help with the patterns that are used on some of them (like the Masquerade) just ask.
By the way, here's the changes we've made in the Demo version :
- We've added complete technical information about the Cargo Cults, and general information about all major Civilizations
- We plan to add some more damage rule from the complete rules (especially x2 success = +1 damage…)
We also planned to add an introductory adventure (something I've run at a convention, and will run again in a few days), but it will be a separate file, finally.
This project is abandoned.
If someone wants to restart something, I'll give them the passwords to re-start the forums.
Colin, I've put the latest translated (and not completely finished) pdfs online.
Latest version (beginning of 2010) : http://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2010/01/24/l124ql2/
Tell me if you want to erase them from the web.
No, please keep them up! Maybe someone else will want to pick up the project and continue with it. I'll ask around on Story Games and similar places.
Thank you for all the work you did with this.
"En français", you mean ?
So far, we're preparing the French demo text, which we hope to finish in December.
We still have issues over a few translations (we've finally chosen "prisme" for "lens", but we're still debating about "mesh").
Sorry. I studied Russian. :)
I don't know if it helps, but the actual physical structure of the mesh is a network of wires throughout the entire brain.
I know what a mesh is supposed to be, but we have to find a name which sounds cool in French !
So far, we're using "implant" (by the way, in a few places in te rulebook, especially when dealing with the Union, the English word "implant" is more-or-less synonymous wish "mesh").
Litteral translations of "mesh" ("maille", "entrelac"…) do not sound very good…
Let's ask a few translation questions in this thread !
- What is a "Arbitrary Frequency Doubler" ? (from the Transcendentals chapter)
- What's the minimum CV to get a +2 bonus. Is it 6 (according to the Quickstart Rules Reference) or 5 (according to the Conflict chapter) ?
The AFD is the behind-the-scenes device that makes most of the Stringtech in the game possible. In the real world, you can apply a frequency doubler to an infrared laser to make a green laser (this is how all handheld green lasers were made until recently - the frequency doubler was a type of nonlinear optical crystal if I remember right). The conversion is not very efficient, but you can actually turn two infrared photons into one green photon. The Arbitrary Frequency Doubler is a hypothetical device that does this with superstrings instead of with photons. Since the frequency of a superstring is everything, this would let you turn (for example) photon input into graviton output.
The minimum CV for a +2 bonus should be 6. Thanks for the catch.
OK. In French, the "Doubleur de fréquence" is also called "Génération de seconde harmonique", which is a cooler name but makes it difficult to put "arbitraire" inside.
Let's go for "Doubleur de fréquence arbitraire" !
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