What

Fallout dialogs automatically parsed by simple scripts (no neural networks or manual adjustment).

Check generated for files for offline or other use (I don't own content itself but whatever is generated outside of it is WTFPL).

Why

Overall the idea was to rewrite the content in some more textual and less scripting format and move away from fallout way of doing it. But the bigger project that would use that is not moving consistently.

But

Only obvious connections that do not depend on any random or other calculations are made. So some information is lost and fuller extraction is possible with more demanding tools like GPT for example. Technically popups with code could provide some hint about such lost information but it looks like they are more useful to see conditional logics behind the scenes.

I didn't check the data too much so feel free to create an issue in case of issues.

How

If you want to have this generated for specific version/translation then here are the steps:

NOTE: some rake commands should work in specific directories in generated/ if they are prefixed like this WHICH=en-f2-gog rake output but this is later addition and is not very tested.

1. have ruby installed

2. have graphviz installed

3. run bundle here nearby to install dependencies (may need install bundler by gem install bundler before)

4. find master.dat among your Fallout files

5. extract all files from master.dat somewhere (I used Windows, DatExplorer for FO2 and undat for FO1, these should be downloadable from nma and/or teamx.ru, also some tools may error unless things are placed shalowly like c:/FO2)

6. decompile scripts/*.int into .ssl files using some other tools (I used Windows and int2ssl)

7. put resulting .ssl and dialogs/*.MSG files (from text/english/dialog) into the input/ directory here nearby

8. run rake -T to see the menu of possible commands (I tested stuff from this step forward on linux)

9. (this command moves files inside input directory) run rake segregate to see result like this

   Moved 970 irrelevant files Moved 50 .ssl files with missing .msg file Moved 50 .msg files with missing .ssl file Moved 3 pairs of files because .ssl file is empty or unconforming Moved 1 pairs of files because .ssl file is empty Remaining are 400 pairs of files for visualization

10. run rake messages_yml (in rare instances there is encoding problem inside the file, opening it with vim and saving back was enough to fix it for me) (during these parsing steps it may fail to parse some code and then fixing it by hand may be needed like adding "end" where procedures have "begin" but lack "end")

11. run rake codes_yml, it parses scripts (if it tells that error is at some line then the line 1 is assumed to be the line before the first "begin")

12. run rake nodes_yml, it collects from yml files info about connections between nodes and messages that is on the surface (it is not exhaustive)

13. run rake viz, this generates mainly svg diagrams (slowest command but it should not fail if graphviz is installed and is available)

14. run rake output, this generates the website to explore diagrams

15. run rake preview, to optionally explore what was generated locally at (http://localhost:3000)

Also

• I may try it on other mods as well at some point (Nevada, Sonora, ...).

• Also sometimes there is warning saying "ids collision" when it comes to messages parsing and maybe it looses some information there

• Possibly sorting svgs by size is the way to select most informative ones, also showing number of nodes and connections near the name could be of use

• I used Fixed Editions for Russian F1,F2 and older generated English F1 is possibly GOG

• I got same content for F2 GOG and Restoration Project, probably there is no error

• added node names to code

• to have html files as independent as svgs (remove jq,underscore dependencies)

• do I need code popup being paused and scrollable?