Editing dialogue?

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Editing dialogue?

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Hi everyone!

I wanted to make my own little personal mod where I change the dialogue of my own player race for fun.
So, I unpacked the locale files with Sporemaster and located the text for the dialogues but I found this:

# WARNING: This is a conversation string table. It is auto-generated.
# Any change you would do in this file will be overwritten by the script.
# If you need to modify any of the text, please modify the file with the same name under
# Data\GameplayConfig\SpaceGame\SpaceConversations\.
# That file has the same name but different (.cnv) extension.

I tried to look for this file and found the folder in Sporegame.package but none of the cnv files have the same name as the lines I want to modify.
And if I open the cnv files with either Sporemaster or an online cnv editor, then there will be a bunch of gibberish that I cannot possibly understand or modify.

So how could I go about editing the dialogues?

Thank you for the help!


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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Umm, I'm not a modder so excuse me if this doesn't help at all. Have you tried editing that file with SporeModder FX or with the Spore ModAPI SDK?
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Hello and thank you for the reply!

I have just tried SporeModder last night and it does open the cnv files far better than Sporemaster with more details present but sadly I still cannot find the actual dialogue text that needs to be modified. I even made a search for some of the dialogue words but it cannot find it.
I might take a look with Spore ModAPI. Maybe it will show more.
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Hmmm, maybe rob55rod, emd and others can help you. Try talking with them on Discord
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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You're looking in the wrong place, try extracting the locale packages. The .cnv files only point to them.
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Do you mean everything in this path?
...Steam\steamapps\common\Spore\Data\Locale\en-us
Not just the text file but everything else?

They dont really contain anything I need. There is only a name generator and information about the UI.
I already extracted the text file but they all have that warning at the top.

# If you need to modify any of the text, please modify the file with the same name under
# Data\GameplayConfig\SpaceGame\SpaceConversations\.


They all say I have to modify something within the SporeGame package (or at least this is what I think it wants) but it contains no actual dialogue anywhere or the source of it.

Or are they trying to mislead us?
Or is this outdated information and I can just modify the dialogue by editing the locale files within Text.package?
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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I think that warning is only for developers, something with their tools, not for modders.
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Ah alright.
I shall test it out and see if it works.

Thank you for the help! I really appreciate it!
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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So, did it work?

Btw, I see you're Hungarian too!

Helló!
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Indeed xD
Szia!

I think it did. One of my changed dialogues actually showed up.
I just didnt realize that some options that were written the same had a fix place and a fixed dialogue attached to them.
So just because I edited 'I want to ask something else...' it didnt mean it would appear everywhere it came up. It just appeared at a certain conversation.

God I feel stupid...
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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#modding-discussion or #modding-research has something about exactly what you're doing: https://discord.com/channels/3681982186 ... 5549283339
You can also ask for help there. The modding gods are there (Mrs. White (Snekky), emd, rob55rod etc).
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Re: Editing dialogue?

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Alright. Thanks!
I will make sure to check it out.
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