Ignis Text Database

Introduction
This plugin allows you to save any text from the game on JSON files, this allows some big advantages over storing them on the RPG Maker editor:

* MUCH easier for translating (You can have multiple files and swap them with plugin commands)
* Easy for others to review and edit your game's text without needind the RPG Maker software
* Easy for you to review your game's text
* Better control over the texts of the game
* Better control over the vocabulary of the game
* Easier to work on the game without actually opening the game, like working outside or other occasions.

How to Use
Just insert the plugin and read the help section.

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Plugin
Ignis Text Database by Raizen

FAQ

Can I use this commercially?
Yes, this plugin is available for commercial usage, check out zlib license that this plugin is under to know more about.

Credit and Thanks
- Reisen (Mauricio Pastana)

This is great. It helps me a lot, because english is not my native language. Texts are easier to find, and easy to edit in a text editor. So I can easily keep track of which texts I still have to adapt (translate).

Looks simple! This is so cool, you can have volunteers to translate your game without needing them to purchase the engine, also it's even safer, you can upload the text files on github then just download them and replace the text files.

Just a question, how will this behave with a word wrapping plugin? It'll work good?

Thanks friend! I used a lot on MV from lavra, so it was very useful for me back then! :yhappy:

Thanks friend! So about the word wrap, it should work, but it depends on where the coder of the wrapper makes the "wrap". So if he somehow makes it before I replace the text with the one on the json file, it might not work, I tried the best to replace it early. If there is a word wrap that doesn't work with it, you can link me the word wrap that I'll probably be able to adjust it to work :ywink:

I really needed a plugin to translate my games, which is why I tested this one with interest. And it really delivers on those promises. For fun, based on a freshly created game, I was able to translate:

• Actors (name, nickname, profile)
• Classes (name)
• Skills (name, description, messages)
• Items (name, description)
• Weapons (name, description)
• Armors (name, description)
• Enemies (name)
• Troops (name)
• States (name, messages)
• System (game title, currency)
• All types
• All terms
• And even the map (name, displayed name)

Even if I could, I didn't test the animations and tilesets... which doesn't really make sense in the end.

With all this, the only issue detected is with the title of the game. Indeed, the title is saved in the tag <title> of the index.html file. And as the plugin script is loaded afterwards, it is not transformed... as you can see on this screenshot.


@Raizen
I have prepared a complete template with all the translatable texts indicated above. Maybe I can share it with you so that you can add it in the opening post as an additional resource (along with the JSON files of the corresponding data). Maybe this will facilitate the translation work of the developers who will use this plugin in the future.

Nice work Zaven! You can share if you wish for the ones that want to use it :yhappy: .
Oh, okay I'll check the title part, I think its something not so hard to fix, if there is anything else to adjust, you can send it here that I'll try to help with it o/

Perfect, I'll share all this as soon as I'm done with the translations of the texts generated by default when creating a new game.

On the other hand, I discovered a new issue, more complex this time I think. Apparently, the text evaluation doesn't take into account texts with regexp parameters to be replaced. Example below with the texts (in French) corresponding to the messages Message.expTotal and Message.expNext. The parameter %1 is not replaced by the text of the corresponding term.


And yet another problem with the escape character used to display currencies: the texts don't load anymore.


In the end, these are just problems with system messages that we could get around with a little manual work. Otherwise, this plugin works great for the remaining 98% of the game texts. :ehappy:

hey, sup?

do you know why when we are using choices with your IgnisTextDatabase plugin, have a limite of letters that we can use? I mean, if I use more than 13 letters, the word become disform?

thanks a tons for this work, looks great... i am just worried about that point now.

cya!

Hello @Raizen, @r66r helped me find a solution for the choice problem. Gonna post here how it can be fix:

Working 100%, Thanks again @r66r!!!!