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Okay so I have try'd for day's to get my Diary entry's to work, I got my notes to work, but my diary's won't. I have look at all the basic tutorials and have found nothing to help me with my problem, I also have dug threw the Main game's Extra_English.Lang file to figure out how to do it but its not working. This is what my .lang Files looks like.

<LANGUAGE>
<CATEGORY Name="CustomStoryMain">
<Entry Name="Description">A test Description.</Entry>
</CATEGORY>

<CATEGORY Name="Journal">
<Entry Name="Note_Test01_Name">Letter to Alex</Entry>
<Entry Name="Note_Test01_Text">16th of September 1465[br][br]Dear, Alex[br][br] It must be hard being that thing. I try'd to help you, but you betrayed me! Even after I saved you from them people down by the village, and gave you shelter for the night, and you repay me like this?[br][br] Alex, I'm sorry, but I couldn't have that monster inside of you running lose, I had to take action. I have locked you in the library quarters, and drugged you. I need time to find a cure before its to late![br][br] Sincerely, F.D. </Entry>
<Entry Name="Diary_ch01Dre_Frankin_Name">Franklin's Diary Entry (1/24)</Entry>
<Entry Name="Diary_ch01Dre_Frankin_Text">5th of August 1465[br][br] Today, I have taken a man by the name of Alex into my home. He was hidding in a barn after the towns people chased him away. I am not yet sure why he has chased away, but I am very curious, and I want to find out.[br][br] He will be staying in my home until I can talk to him. He seems to be quite shook up. I will continue these logs with continued reasearch on him.</Entry>
</CATEGORY>
</LANGUAGE>

So if you see any error's please help me, I also have the notetext = ch01Dre_Franklin. If there is anything I need to change please help me.

Sincerely, Vandyke.

Did you recompile the scripts/language files in game after you edited them?
Otherwise everything you have is fine.

(10-30-2010, 09:19 PM)mastersmith98 Wrote: [ -> ]Did you recompile the scripts/language files in game after you edited them?
Otherwise everything you have is fine.

How would I do that? I am using notepad?

When you're in game and the debug menu is up, click recompile scripts and config files and that should do it.

(10-30-2010, 10:41 PM)mastersmith98 Wrote: [ -> ]When you're in game and the debug menu is up, click recompile scripts and config files and that should do it.

The debug menu never opens.

If you havent set up debug mode then read this tutorial.

If/when you have just press F1.

Edit: Now that I think of it, it might also be the case that it never reads your "extra_english.lang" file because you are in debug mode and not running a custom story.
It might also be that you havent dont have any voice narration (or whatever it is called), which diaries might need. This is however untested and only a theory.

(10-31-2010, 12:00 AM)Someone else Wrote: [ -> ]If you havent set up debug mode then read this tutorial.

If/when you have just press F1.

Edit: Now that I think of it, it might also be the case that it never reads your "extra_english.lang" file because you are in debug mode and not running a custom story.
It might also be that you havent dont have any voice narration (or whatever it is called), which diaries might need. This is however untested and only a theory.

Thanks for the tut, but it does read my Extra_English.lang file because my notes work. It was just the diary entry's that were being a pain, I will try out this tutorial, and see if it helps, and thanks taking the time to help me, Much appreciated.

It didn't help, I really think I am just doing something wrong, I want to work on my story, but not until my notes are working correctly.

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(10-31-2010, 09:38 PM)Vandyke Wrote: [ -> ]It didn't help, I really think I am just doing something wrong, I want to work on my story, but not until my notes are working correctly.

<LANGUAGE>
<CATEGORY Name="CustomStoryMain">
<Entry Name="Description">Play as Alex, in a mysterious castle. Find out who you are and what happened to you, and around you.</Entry>
</CATEGORY>

<CATEGORY Name="Journal">
<Entry Name="Note_Test01_Name">Letter to Alex</Entry>
<Entry Name="Note_Test01_Text">16th of September 1465[br][br]Dear, Alex[br][br] It must be hard being that thing. I try'd to help you, but you betrayed me! Even after I saved you from them people down by the village, and gave you shelter for the night, and you repay me like this?[br][br] Alex, I'm sorry, but I couldn't have that monster inside of you running lose, I had to take action. I have locked you in the library quarters, and drugged you. I need time to find a cure before its to late![br][br] Sincerely, F.D. </Entry>

<Entry Name="Diary_ch01Dre_Franklin_Name1">Franklin's Diary Entry (1/24)</Entry>
<Entry Name="Diary_ch01Dre_Franklin_Text1">5th of August 1465[br][br] Today, I have taken a man by the name of Alex into my home. He was hidding in a barn after the towns people chased him away. I am not yet sure why he has chased away, but I am very curious, and I want to find out.[br][br] He will be staying in my home until I can talk to him. He seems to be quite shook up. I will continue these logs with continued reasearch on him.</Entry>
</CATEGORY>
</LANGUAGE>

and I have NoteText = ch01Dre_FranklinAmnesia

Are you running the game or have you modded it to be a dev account? insta open map, display health, sanity and everything in numbers, etc that kind of stuff.

When i ran my dev account diary entries never showed, when i played the game normally they did.