- Feb 23, 2018
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TLDR:
Want another person making patches that fix bad grammar and cheesy "NOT" incest dialogue?
Great! Please hold my hand like an ignorant child and show me where to go to learn to do that, and I'll do it.
INFO:
Part of my problem is not being sure where to post. So, General Discussion it is!
I see a lot of potentially useful info about programming, cracking, modding, etc., but I can't find any sort of "guide to the guides" or general introduction thread.
I just want to make a dialogue patch. I have no interest in making major modifications to the functionality of anyone's game (for now). I'm not 100% clear if there is any significant difference between the terms Mod, Patch, or Translation in regards to how one would go about doing those things.
The thread "Modding Ren'py 101" basically just says how to download and use the tools that rip the files out. There's not really any other advice for newbies in the topic post, and the discussion beneath it rapidly descends into throwing around terms I'm not familiar with.
It seems like just editing dialogue ought to be relatively simple, and I do have some familiarity with programming, but I'm not sure where to look for the tools or ask questions.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS:
1. Are the tools listed as "Mod Tools" the same tools I would need for simply editing dialogue, or is that overkill?
2. Is "Modding Ren'py 101" the correct place to ask for help with writing dialogue patches? If not, where is?
WHAT I'M UP TO:
Due to my upbringing, I have a low tolerance for poor grammar. I've seen some I wanted to fix.
Also, every time I see a story that starts with,
"my mother is dead, so I'm living with an old friend of hers, but she is certainly NOT my own mother and her daughters are definitely NOT my actual sisters,"
it makes my eyes bleed.
Artistic freedom has intrinsic value regardless of the subject matter or format it takes. Frankly, if a big red dot, a drawing of a soup can someone else designed, and smears of feces on a canvas are "legitimate art," than so is everything on this website.
...
Okay, almost everything, but you get the idea.
Want another person making patches that fix bad grammar and cheesy "NOT" incest dialogue?
Great! Please hold my hand like an ignorant child and show me where to go to learn to do that, and I'll do it.
INFO:
Part of my problem is not being sure where to post. So, General Discussion it is!
I see a lot of potentially useful info about programming, cracking, modding, etc., but I can't find any sort of "guide to the guides" or general introduction thread.
I just want to make a dialogue patch. I have no interest in making major modifications to the functionality of anyone's game (for now). I'm not 100% clear if there is any significant difference between the terms Mod, Patch, or Translation in regards to how one would go about doing those things.
The thread "Modding Ren'py 101" basically just says how to download and use the tools that rip the files out. There's not really any other advice for newbies in the topic post, and the discussion beneath it rapidly descends into throwing around terms I'm not familiar with.
It seems like just editing dialogue ought to be relatively simple, and I do have some familiarity with programming, but I'm not sure where to look for the tools or ask questions.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS:
1. Are the tools listed as "Mod Tools" the same tools I would need for simply editing dialogue, or is that overkill?
2. Is "Modding Ren'py 101" the correct place to ask for help with writing dialogue patches? If not, where is?
WHAT I'M UP TO:
Due to my upbringing, I have a low tolerance for poor grammar. I've seen some I wanted to fix.
Also, every time I see a story that starts with,
"my mother is dead, so I'm living with an old friend of hers, but she is certainly NOT my own mother and her daughters are definitely NOT my actual sisters,"
it makes my eyes bleed.
Artistic freedom has intrinsic value regardless of the subject matter or format it takes. Frankly, if a big red dot, a drawing of a soup can someone else designed, and smears of feces on a canvas are "legitimate art," than so is everything on this website.
...
Okay, almost everything, but you get the idea.
