Modding?

[BunsenGyro]

Hey everyone! I'm wondering if anybody has some insights for how to mod Iconoclasts. I had ideas like a simple silly text-replacement mod, where everything is the same, just with funnier dialogue.

[konjak]

I'd be intrigued for that to be figured out, but it'd probably be harder than most games, but if not, it'd at least be very different

[YinYin]

The text is inside the "dia*" files of the data folder.

Font/animation/talking character and other instuctions are in clear text.

The text itself seems to be typed out via the letters character code with a caesar shift of 1.

For example, one of the first words inside the english ("dia") file is this:
|74|79|85|70|83|66|68|85|
Which translates to
JOUFSBDU
Caesar shift it and it becomes
INTERACT

You should be able to do your text-replacement mod that way.

[BunsenGyro]

Oh jesus, I just found the dia file. That's gonna be a lotta work.

[YinYin]

I suggest you build yourself something to automate reading and writing this ;)

[shardinhand]

Originally posted by YinYin:

I suggest you build yourself something to automate reading and writing this ;)

is that possible??

[Onnnat]

I don't know if any of you will see this thread. But I'm posting it for the citizens of the future:

I made a python tool for automating the reading and writing of the "dia" file: all the instructions are in the Github https://github.com/Squiblydoo/IconoParser

I still have plans to improve it over time. I am posting it here in case I'm unable.

As of today: it produces a CSV that can be easily edited in a text editor, and then converted back to the original format. If you have any suggestions for improvements, feel free to reach out.

[Onnnat]

Also for the citizens of the future, while I was making my tool mentioned above, someone else made a translation tool: https://github.com/Liquid-S/Iconoclast-Translation-Tool/releases/
They used it to create an Italian Translation, and it works amazing.

[Angamatsu]

Originally posted by Onnnat:

I don't know if any of you will see this thread. But I'm posting it for the citizens of the future:

I made a python tool for automating the reading and writing of the "dia" file: all the instructions are in the Github https://github.com/Squiblydoo/IconoParser

I still have plans to improve it over time. I am posting it here in case I'm unable.

As of today: it produces a CSV that can be easily edited in a text editor, and then converted back to the original format. If you have any suggestions for improvements, feel free to reach out.

I tried your python tool and seems impressive. Wonder there's a way to implemment a support to discritics signals such as ^~´`, but maybe the way the game was made of, or even the text font make this impossible.