Converting Twine source to .rpy files

[saguaro]

I recently became interested in using Twine to storyboard so I could take advantage of node maps for branching stories. This tool is for building a story in Twine with Ren'py code (except using Twine's macros for jump/call/etc. to utilize the node map), testing as needed, then exporting to an .rpy with the macros converted to the Ren'py equivalents. See the examples in the .zip.

twine2rpy converts PassageTitle to label, internalLinks to jump, <<display>> to call, <<choice>> to jump, <<set>>, <<print>>, and if blocks. It doesn't convert multiple variable assignment or multiple conditions (using ;) or ternary operators.

Run the script from the command line: twine2rpy.py source.txt

The .zip includes a sample .tws, .txt, and .rpy.

Update: v 1.1 replaces tabs with 4 spaces. Ren'Py doesn't like tabs. If you already converted using the previous version you can fix it yourself by using your editor's replace function to replace "\t" with four spaces (check the regular expression field).

[chronodekar]

Haven't checked out your tool, but Twine looks interesting. Thanks for sharing !

-chronodekar

[Kessie]

Thanks heaps for sharing!

I just know a little twine is going to help me go a long way from my usually disorganised script writing xD.

[saguaro]

Yeah, I think it's definitely helping me stay organized on my current project.

The only two issues I've encountered so far are copy-pasting from a word processor without converting to utf-8 first (Twine won't export non-Unicode, so you have to find/replace) and the fact that Twine exports the nodes left-right top-bottom, so you need to set up nodes that way if you want the exported labels to have any kind of order.

[Kessie]

Oh I see
Thanks for explaining that because I was considering copy and pasting and wouldn't have figured out those technical issues ^^;
Appreciate it

[monstergrin]

This seems like a terrific tool, but I can't get it to work! Is it still supported?

[jesusalva]

This seems like a terrific tool, but I can't get it to work! Is it still supported?

In December 2014, Twine released a new version, Twine 2.

This is the version which Twine gives you by default, and it only exports HTML documents.
This script was made for Twine 1, which is still available to download as of writing, but doesn't receive updates since 2016 (according to github).


You can try Twine 1 to make use of this script at your own risk.

A small experiment I did:

I actually wrote in about 40 minutes a quick python script which will read the HTML file and extract the most relevant tidbits from it.

It is not meant for production; Currently it can only make simple narrator texts and simple menus. (If you go past page 2 of Twine Quickstart this script will give up).

Do note that I was only tinkering to see if it would be possible to make such tool (the answer is: Yes, it is possible), so I did not even bother to try it on Python3. (So yep, another short-lived utility script).

twine2rpy_2.py

A simple script for simple things

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[prestristan]

Wow I didn't know Twine can do that :O
All I know is that Twine can only export to .html Ha HA
Thanks for sharing! @saguaro