dual language versions of a game

[kuroi]

Hello out there in Renpy Land.
I'm working on creating an updated version of one of my previous games and I was hoping to make the distribution simpler by having a dual-language english/japanese release. However, I can't seem to find any more elegent way to do this than to simply do an if statement for every single line of text in the game such as this:

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    if lang == "e":    
        main "Good Morning!"
    else:
        main "おはようございます！"

This seems like a terribly inefficient way to do things so I figure there must be some better way to do this which I haven't seen yet.

Ideally I'd really like for the player to be able to simply go into the options menu and switch their language at any time, however, I realize that this may not be possible within the renpy engine as it is right now.

So, does any have any ideas?

Thanks so much
~Kuroi

[fortaat]

I don't recall how Renpy is supposed to to do it, but the simplest way is to have a screen before the main menu, asking which language to play in:

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    if lang == "e":   
        jump to ENGLISH_GAME.RPY
    else:
        jump to JAPAN_GAME.RPY

Each option leads to a different file, with a different language.

[PyTom]

There's a pretty good writeup on this in the Ren'Py wiki:

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... ge_Support

[kuroi]

Oh. Wow... That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Pytom!