README.md
Girl Life (ЭТО) [English Community Version] - github edition
Formatting comments when posting commits
Please use one of the following terms:
- fixed
- changed
- added
- removed
- text edit Added and removed are for files being added or removed, fixed is for bug/code fixes, changed is for when events are changed and text edit is for changes to the text that'll appear on screen. These are for searching to aid those working on the files. Can you also include filenames (unless its a large number of files) and include any description you feel will help. If adding content that is disabled (due to being WIP) can you comment in the file that its disabled and include your name so that it doesn't get activated in error.
Quick start (for Unixy machines)
- clone/fork the repo
- make edits to the files in
locations - run
./txtmerge.py locations glife.txt - run
wine txt2gam.exe glife.txt glife.qsp - test that it works
- commit your changes
- push and/or send a pull request
Quick start (for Windows machines)
- Double click the MakeQSP.bat
- Enjoy :)
What exactly is all this?
In an effort to make editing the text of Girl Life easier, I set up this repo. This is based on the english community version. There are two branches: master and releases. On the master branch I will keep my version of the game as I make edits, merge pull requests, etc. while the releases is where you'd get things that you expect to actually work.
Where are the images?
Not here. Shouldn't you know this already?
What is glife.txt?
It turns out that glife.qsp is not the friendliest format for this game, but if you use qgen you can export the game in what they call TXT2GAM format. This is how glife.txt is obtained. Note that this is a large text file encoded in UTF-16, so git still has some trouble with it.
What are the python scripts?
Since glife.txt is large and in UTF-16, I wrote two scripts, one that splits this file into one file per location, and puts them in locations after turning them to UTF-8, another that takes the UTF-8 files from locations and generates a UTF-16 file in TXT2GAM format.
I modified something in locations, ran the txtmerge.py script, now what?
Assuming you ran something like
./txtmerge.py locations glife.txt
you now need to turn glife.txt into a qsp file. On my system, I use wine to run txt2gam.exe, works quite well:
wine txt2gam.exe glife.txt glife.qsp