.bat file mass decompilation of .dlg > .d using WeiDU

[cmorgan]

Hey - I have used NI to export all of EasyTutu's dialog into a separate folder.

 

I now want to decompile them using the c:\Black Isle\BaldursGateTutu chitin.key, dialog.tlk.

 

I want the information to be as complete as possible.

 

I ran a variation of the following on the full export of the BGII-SoA/ToB vanilla installs, and it worked (though I had to do a second step):

 

decompile.bat

FOR %%A IN (BG2_DLG\*.dlg) DO BG2_DLG\WeiDU.exe %%A  --out BG2_DLG\%%~nxA

This resulted in everything but MONK 8.DLG being batch processed, overwriting the original files. I moved MONK 8.DLG out, and finished off the run, no problems;

 

then changed to the command prompt, browsed to the directory, and

ren *.DLG *.D

cleaned it up.

 

 

Voila - full vanilla set of 4000+ .d files availale for textsearches and context. Cool.

 

Two questions, though -

 

I want more data, and now need to specify the directory to look for the materials. How close is

 

EayTutuDecompile.bat

FOR %%A IN (EASYTUTU_DLG\*.dlg) DO EASYTUTU_DLG\WeiDU.exe %%A --game (c:\Black Isle\BaldursGateTutu\) --full-from --transitive --out BG2_DLG\%%~nxA

 

and can I get the darned mass-read to output with the .D extension?

 

 

Follow up question - I tried

FOR %%A IN (BG2_DLG\*.dlg) DO BG2_DLG\WeiDU.exe %%A  --out BG2_DLG\

and it threw a truncation error, failing to process the files. Since

weidu scarles.d --out BG2_DLG\

should handle this, can someone step me through why my .bat construction logic is failing?

[Taimon]

and can I get the darned mass-read to output with the .D extension?

Try

FOR %%A IN (EASYTUTU_DLG\*.dlg) DO (
 EASYTUTU_DLG\WeiDU.exe "%%A" --game "c:\Black Isle\BaldursGateTutu\" --full-from --transitive --out "BG2_DLG\%%~nA.d"
)

(Parentheses after DO not really necessary, unless you specify a group of commands)

You do know that --transitive is potentially dangerous, don't you? (endless loops)

 

Follow up question - I tried

FOR %%A IN (BG2_DLG\*.dlg) DO BG2_DLG\WeiDU.exe %%A  --out BG2_DLG\

and it threw a truncation error, failing to process the files. Since

weidu scarles.d --out BG2_DLG\

should handle this, can someone step me through why my .bat construction logic is failing?

Not sure. Maybe it's the backslash after the directory.

[cmorgan]

(Parentheses after DO not really necessary, unless you specify a group of commands)

You do know that --transitive is potentially dangerous, don't you? (endless loops)

Heck no, I didn't know that - so the --transitive , while potentially providing more info, is probably overkill anyways, and is possibly dangerous to boot. I don't think I'll go down that route!

 

Not sure. Maybe it's the backslash after the directory.

 

urk - I had better also check to see if a .bat file on WinXP SP3 will allow spaces in filenames...

 

\Black Isle\

 

might choke it up, the same way

 

MONK 8

 

did...

[Taimon]

(Parentheses after DO not really necessary, unless you specify a group of commands)

You do know that --transitive is potentially dangerous, don't you? (endless loops)

Heck no, I didn't know that - so the --transitive , while potentially providing more info, is probably overkill anyways, and is possibly dangerous to boot. I don't think I'll go down that route!

I haven't tested this recently, just remembered it from the readme.

 

urk - I had better also check to see if a .bat file on WinXP SP3 will allow spaces in filenames...

 

\Black Isle\

 

might choke it up, the same way

 

MONK 8

 

did...

That's why I put quotes around the variables/parameters.

[cmorgan]

Got it!

 

Well, almost. The darned .bat is still looking for the wrong dialog.tlk

 

 // creator  : EASYTUTU_DLG\WeiDU.exe (version 20800)
// argument : EASYTUTU_DLG\_ALBERT.DLG
// game		 : C:\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA
// source	 : EASYTUTU_DLG\_ALBERT.DLG
// dialog	 : C:\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA/dialog.tlk
// dialogF  : (none)

 

results from using

 

FOR %%A IN (EASYTUTU_DLG\*.dlg) DO (
 EASYTUTU_DLG\WeiDU.exe "%%A" --game "c:\Program Files\Black Isle\BaldursGateTutu\" --full-from --out "EASYTUTU_DLG\%%~nA.d"
)

 

so somehow, I must be incorrectly setting --game. WeiDU is reverting to the registry entries for SoA. The output is perfectly set up, but ends up being a shell of Invalid Strrefs.

 

EDIT\ I cheated it by dumping the dialog file folder and the output folder into the BaldursGateTutu game directory, and running

 

decipher.bat

FOR %%A IN (EASYTUTU_DLG\*.dlg) DO (
 EASYTUTU_DLG\WeiDU.exe %%A  --full-from --out TEMP_DLG\%%~nA.d
)

 

but I would still like to check this out. I strongly suspect my lack of skills, but just in case there is a hitch somewhere else...

[Mike1072]

Edit: Never mind, looks like you got it.

[Taimon]

There is also --tlkin to specify the tlk, but --game should have worked as well.

 

/Edit:

WeiDU checks if you have a chitin.key in the game path.

Also try without the trailing backlash and with slashes instead of backslashes (just in case).