How to reedit game texts

[Domi]

I guess it shows how little can a person know after being involved into trivial modding for a long time...

 

Here goes the question:

 

What I WANT to do (in PS Torment game):

 

I want to reedit many dlg files texts, arbitrarily rewriting the lines, sometimes adding new options etc

 

What I DID and SCREWED UP:

 

I extracted a few DLG files with weidu --text and went over texts putting in corrections and added in one case a couple of new STATEs

COMPILE resulted D into override

That resulted in messed up dialog.tlk - the CRE in the games started giving me wrong dlg lines

 

Now HOW may I do it properly (the work is too humangous imo to do it all in NI line by line)?

 

-If I do not add new STATEs, will I still screw up the dialogue.tlk by re-compiling the existing files and adding new strings in the end of it?

-Will it help if I reCOMPILE ALL files in the game (I dimly remeber DECOMPILE-COMPILE routine) - if that could help, please, please, show me a sample code snippet!

 

Thnak you in advance!

 

Domi

[Domi]

OK, it looks that if I do not add new states, it works Cute So as soon as I have time to read/correct 871 flies...

[SimDing0]

It'd probably be easier to go through the entire TLK spotting and mass replacing text, than it would decompiling each dialogue one by one.

[Domi]

I want to be sure that the replacements make sense for each character...