Civ4 XML Text

Description

These files control the text that is shown in the game.

Tag Reference

Tag - the tag that's used to reference the text by the rest of the game, in the form of TXT_KEY_SOMETHING

English - the text in English

French - the text in French

German - the text in German

Italian - the text in Italian

Spanish - the text in Spanish

Gender - Male or Female, used with languages that assign each noun a gender.

Plural - 0 = singular, 1 = plural. Many text keys have 0:1 to include both singular and plural. Usually used where the plural is something different than an 's' added to the end.

Example

 <Civ4GameText xmlns="http://www.firaxis.com">
   <TEXT>
     <Tag>TXT_KEY_IMPROVEMENT_PASTURE</Tag>
     <English>Pasture</English>
     <French>
       <Text>Pâturage</Text>
       <Gender>Male</Gender>
       <Plural>0</Plural>
     </French>
     <German>
       <Text>Weide</Text>
       <Gender>Male</Gender>
       <Plural>0</Plural>
     </German>
     <Italian>
       <Text>Pascolo:Pascoli</Text>
       <Gender>Male</Gender>
       <Plural>0:1</Plural>
     </Italian>
     <Spanish>
       <Text>Pastizal:Pastizales</Text>
       <Gender>Male</Gender>
       <Plural>0:1</Plural>
     </Spanish>
   </TEXT>
 </Civ4GameText>

Text Files

Unlike other XML files, these files can have any name and still be recognized by the game. Most epic game files are Civ4GameText_*, but a file could be named anything. For example, Assets\Text\XML\Buildings.xml would be recognized by the game without any SDK changes. This can be done with no other type of XML file.