RPGMTranslate

RPGMTranslate is an open source and simple translation tool for RPG Maker games. Among its main features are an exceptional performance and plain text file format.

The application itself is a portable binary. Everything that the application writes tries to stay beside it - settings, lock file, etc. Application data directory is changed by the RPGMTRANSLATE_DATA_DIR environment variable, see Installation.

Getting started

To start translating anything, you just need to open a directory that contains RPG Maker game. More specifically, it should contain data (or Data) directory, or an RGSS archive (Game.rgssad, Game.rgss2a, Game.rgss3a).

The first time you open a new project, a Read options dialog pops up before anything is parsed - pick your options (or just accept the defaults) and click Apply. See Rvpacker > Read for what each option does. After that, the application decrypts the archive if needed, pulls text from the data directory files, creates an .rpgmtranslate directory, and opens the project.

From here you can start doing things. Don't know where to start? Installation and Text Editing are the best places to begin.

Pages

	Page	What's there
	Installation	Getting a release, requirements, where RPGMTranslate keeps its files
	Text Editing	The translation table, linting, keyboard shortcuts, batch select
	Search Features	Search, regex-powered replace, and put
	Batch Processing	Translating or scripting many files at once, custom JS scripts
	Tasks	How the background task system works: what can run in parallel, what can be aborted
	Settings	Every setting in the settings window, explained
	Glossary	CAT term glossary: creating, matching, and linting terms
rv	Rvpacker	How reading, writing, and purging translation files actually works
	Git	The built-in git client: what it can and can't do yet
	Asset Inspector	Browsing images, code, audio/video, and fonts from the project
	Development	Building from source: dependencies, CMake options, per-platform notes

The icon column shows the toolbar button that opens each feature, where it has one, so you can match a page to a button at a glance.

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