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Creature NamesEdit

Hello, I've got one question, how do you find out these creature names? I don't find out a possibility to view the names of my enemys in Shadowkey. --Scharesoft 12:54, 4 March 2009 (EST)

Wow! A question about Shadowkey! My work is not completely useless :)
Okay, there's no direct way in the game of finding out what's what because creature names don't appear. You can, of course, get the names from the items they drop, although since many of those are random, it can be tricky. I've been getting the names by looking at the game's data files. To give you one example, there's a file called "Monsters\Umbric_Rat.s", that contains the line "SetName(2146);". The number 2146 is a lookup into the language-specific StringTable file, and in this case you'll find it's the code for "Umbric Rats". The other data works in similar sort of ways.
That's how I know they're right, but in-game you just have to rely on item drops. I hope eventually to get images so it's possible to relate the data to a picture, but that's non-trivial for exactly these reasons. –RpehTCE 13:58, 4 March 2009 (EST)
Thank you very much for your answer :) It's a pity that we can find just the english names in the date file. Here I'm working on a list of the Shadowkey creatures for the german community. --Scharesoft 17:38, 7 March 2009 (EST)
Actually we can get English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The game comes with translations for all those plus UK English. Take a look at this file (450K). If you want to find out what the German for "Horrid Wormmouth" is, search for the English text then read off the German: "Grausiger Maulwurm". –RpehTCE 03:06, 8 March 2009 (EDT)
Oh, that's great :) Thank you very much! --Scharesoft 06:58, 8 March 2009 (EDT)
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