Dialog, dialog, and some more dialog...

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Fallout1FTW

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It's time to get back into my private TC mod after a couple of months of partying ;)

I have a question for writers.
The only things remaining to do are the dialogs and scripts. I have to write hundreds of dialogs so I'm wondering what would be the fastest ways to do it? Do you write your dialogs directly into some sort of editor or are you using a different approach? I'm interested because if I pick a wrong method, I might burn out before finishing them all.
 
Glad to know you're back !

I'm not a writer but the only dialog editor for Fallout2 that I know of is the FMF dialog editor.

You can grab it here :
http://www.mediafire.com/?fvndjdqn8aslq8e

Other than that the notepad + FSE seems to do the job :



But some more experienced modder may have some better advices...

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Aguirre
 
Fallout1FTW said:
I presume most of you type the dialog directly into the editor then
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That's right. I for one prefer Notepad-written dialogues to any and all editors. For instance, the FMF editor offers the possibility of converting a dialogue directly to a ready-made .ssl file. But going through all the nodes and trying to guess what conditions should be set up where, it's a pain in the arse, and setting the FMF tool to automatically program the conditions and checks is risky at best (ask Dude101 about it, he's had some bad experiences with that one).

I found it easier and faster to write dialogue directly in the editor and script it from scratch afterwards. A good practice is to have a complete design document for an area first, then write all dialogue and only then proceed to scripting. That's what we try to do at MR at the moment and have obtained very good results (scripting an entire location in less than 4 weeks).
 
It really depends. By now, I like it much more to use a dialog editor, because you just have a much better overview about the stuff. Sadly, you can't really use the FOnline dialogue editor for Fallout 2 (well, I can't, because it doesn't save german umlauts).
 
You can set up custom languages for Notepad++ with little effort. It's an amazing editor for structured text files like this.
 
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