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Jaroslav Beneš 2268334c30 Draw menu carons with the game's own typeface, per font rather than per label

The previous commit claimed this was fixed; it was not. It hooked
UIStyleManager.GetMenuFont, GetTranslatorFont, GetShipLogFont and
GetShipLogCardFont — all four of which are dead code with no callers anywhere in
Assembly-CSharp. Fonts are assigned straight onto the Text components in the
scene data, so nothing the mod did was ever consulted.

Three further things were wrong and are fixed here:

- The language check reflected into the Localization Utility for TryGetLanguage,
  which the installed version does not have, so it could only ever fail. It now
  uses the utility's own definition instead: custom languages are numbered past
  Language.TOTAL. No reflection, nothing to fail silently.
- The substitution was decided per label, from whether that label's own string
  needed a glyph, which left menus mixing two typefaces line by line. It is now
  decided per font: a face that cannot draw Slovak is replaced everywhere it is
  used. Faces that can — Futura PT for dialogue, Space Mono for the translator —
  are still never touched.
- The menu font was assumed to be Gill Sans MT. Logging the fonts actually in
  use showed the menus are Adobe - SerifGothicStd, which had been listed as a
  stylised face to leave alone. Gill Sans is the HUD prompts.

The replacement now prefers the game's own dynamic cut of the same typeface
(Adobe - SerifGothicStd_Dynamic and friends), matched by name prefix so bold
variants resolve too, which keeps the menu looking like vanilla. Bundled Cabin
is the fallback where the game ships no dynamic sibling, and the new
preferGameTypeface setting forces Cabin everywhere.

Hooks are Text.OnEnable, the Text.text setter, TextTranslation.SetLanguage and
scene load, plus a 2s sweep for menus built lazily after all of those.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-21 21:39:19 +02:00

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Outer Wilds — Slovenský preklad / Slovak Translation Mod

Neoficiálny slovenský preklad hry Outer Wilds (základná hra + rozšírenie Echoes of the Eye). Pridáva do hry jazyk Slovenčina.

An unofficial Slovak (slovenčina) translation mod for Outer Wilds, covering the base game and the Echoes of the Eye DLC.

Stav / Status: 🚧 Work in progress — the mod scaffold and translation are being built. See PLAN.md for the roadmap.

Outer Wilds officially ships in 12 languages; Slovak is not one of them. This mod adds it as a new selectable language using the community localization framework — no changes to the game's own files are required.

How it works

The mod is a small OWML mod that registers a new language through Interplanetary Polyglot / Localization Utility (xen.LocalizationUtility). All translated text lives in a single assets/Translation.xml; the utility swaps the game's strings for the Slovak ones at runtime.

Installation

Install the Outer Wilds Mod Manager.
Install this mod through the Mod Manager. Its dependency Interplanetary Polyglot (xen.LocalizationUtility) will be pulled in automatically.
Launch the game via the Mod Manager.
In Settings → Language, choose Slovenčina.
- Tip: the optional Language Swap mod lets you switch language in-game with Ctrl+L.

Until the first release is published, the mod is not yet in the Mod Manager database — see PLAN.md for how to build it from source.

Contributing / Prispievanie

Translation fixes are very welcome — the goal is natural, consistent Slovak.

Report mistranslations or awkward phrasing as an issue.
Edit only the <value> of each entry in assets/Translation.xml. Never change the <key> — it is the English identifier the game matches on.
Preserve all inline formatting exactly, e.g. <color=orange>…</color>, <i>, and speaker prefixes like POKE:.
Follow the terminology in docs/glossary.md so names (Nomai, the Eye, Ash Twin Project, …) stay consistent across the whole game.

See CLAUDE.md for the full conventions and repo layout.

License & disclaimer

The original mod code and the Slovak translation in this repository are released under the MIT License.

The bundled fallback font in assets/slovakfont is Cabin by the Cabin Project Authors, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see assets/Cabin-OFL.txt). The game's own menu and HUD fonts were never baked with Slovak caron glyphs, so those labels are redrawn with a font that has them — preferably one of the game's own dynamic fonts, and Cabin only where it ships none. See SlovakFont.cs, and the preferGameTypeface setting if you would rather have Cabin everywhere.

This is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, approved by, or endorsed by Mobius Digital or Annapurna Interactive. Outer Wilds, its story, dialogue, characters, and other assets are © Mobius Digital / Annapurna Interactive; the underlying game text remains their property and is used here under Mobius Digital's Fan Content Policy. The MIT license covers only this project's own contributions, not the source material.

Credits

Mobius Digital / Annapurna Interactive — Outer Wilds.
xen-42 — the Localization Utility / Interplanetary Polyglot framework this mod is built on.
The Outer Wilds modding community.

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