Guide for editing NPC dialogue?

[aveskori]

first post here so sorry if this isn't the right place to ask lol

I was wondering if a guide could be made for editing/adding custom NPC dialogue. I know some of the specifics, but only for iterator dialogue. I'd be happy to help make it if someone with more experience wanted to help as well ^^

Ideally, the guide would go over code for textboxes, overriding iterator dialogue for custom scugs, and such.

[thalber]

Text files go under assetpath text/text_[yourlanguagecode]. All strings that the devs do not want a random user to read using notepad are encrypted. Notice character filters on some of them, you should be able to do the same for custom slugs i think.

If you wish to replace an entire file, you can use this mod to dump all vanilla text in decrypted form into streamingassets/decrypt. You can then place the edited version back under assetpath text/text_[yourlanguagecode]/ and the game should encrypt and load it (make sure to keep a copy elsewhere!). The mod is very primitive and i am not sure it actually dumps everything, and it definitely doesn't dump CRS pearls.

Spoilerless strings are all stored in text/text_[yourlanguagecode]/strings.txt. Since this one is not encrypted, you can use a modify file to selectively edit a line.

As for adding new dialogue, there isn't a unified system yet. EchoExtender inside RegionKit allows adding specifically echoes and CRS allows adding new pearl dialogue for LTTM, but if someone wants a new iterator they need to do it themselves. This is mostly due to the fact that iterator code is a complete disaster and it would be easier to straight up redo iterators from scratch than to fix what's already there.