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The Dialogue System can import and export several formats:
The Dialogue System Extras page has a free addon that can import individual linear conversations from Excel spreadsheets.
To import a different format, copy Templates ► Scripts ► ConverterWindowTemplate.cs and customize it where the comments indicate.
The Dialogue Editor's Database tab has an Export foldout that lets you export dialogue database data in these formats:
| Export Format | Description |
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| Chat Mapper XML | XML file in Chat Mapper format. For import steps, see Exporting XML To Chat Mapper. |
| CSV | Comma-separated values that can be imported into a spreadsheet application such as Excel. |
| Voiceover Script | Exports the lines of dialogue in CSV format. |
| Language Text | Exports text dumps into separate files for each language. |
This option exports a copy of your database to a CSV file that you can open in spreadsheet applications such as Excel or Google Sheets. This is a useful format to prepare a spreadsheet for translators. If you're exporting to make a text-based backup copy, Chat Mapper XML is the preferred format.
This option exports the lines of dialogue in CSV format that you can open in spreadsheet applications. If you use multiple languages, each language will be in a separate column. This is a handy format to provide to voice actors and animators because it includes the dialogue text and associated Entrytags that your voice director can use as the filenames for the recorded dialogue.
You can also specify an optional dialogue entry field to export with your VO script. You can use this field to record whether the entry's audio has been recorded, or the filename of the audio file, etc.
If you use this optional dialogue entry field, you can update it in the main CSV file and reimport that field value from the CSV file back into your database.
This option exports the database's conversations in standard screenplay format for interactive dialogue. For maximum flexibility, it exports one text file per language and uses tabs to ident properly. To match the most strict screenplay formats, use these settings if you load the text file into a word processing application:
—page—This option exports text dumps into separate files for each language. You can use this to check which characters your language-specific fonts require.
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