Retrieving all dialogue from JSON/Flat file

[leeto]

Hey folks,

I have been working on developing processes to work on a project that would include heavy localization requirements without requiring localizers to touch game code. My goal with this workflow is that all dialogue changes can live independently from my game code and python/screen language code. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with attempting to (or if this is a documented feature of Ren'py that I am missing) interpolate ALL lines of dialogue to be read from a json file or other format.

For a pseudocode example, in my scene1.rpy I would have code somewhere that would look like this

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python:
     dialogue = json.dumps(scene1_english.json)
     renpy.say(dialogue[0].who, dialogue[0].what)

And I would have a scene1dialogue.json file that looks like

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[
     {'who': 'j', what: 'index 0 text'},
     {'who': 'k', what: 'index 1 text'},
]

Then in a multi-language environment I would have a dialogue file for each language and a language option check determining which dictionary of dialogue I should be pulling from for my say statements.

[philat]

I've seen others do something like this, so it should be possible, but it's not really a documented feature and it's pretty rare. I mean, at that point, why use Ren'py? The main strength of Ren'py is the readability of the script, and moving it all into a json or xml file kind of defeats that. That said, the first few posts here discuss the issue. https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=site% ... e&ie=UTF-8

[Ocelot]

What is wrong with RenPy own localisation framework?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translation.html

[leeto]

What is wrong with RenPy own localisation framework?
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translation.html

Oh I think this aligns more with what I was looking for. I don't know how I missed this in the online documentation, I think I read "translation" and my brain kept associating it with the word in the math/animation sense. Just generated some tl files and this looks like something I can definitely use.