pylivemaker 1.0.0

Python package for manipulating LiveMaker game resources.

pylivemaker

Python package for manipulating LiveMaker 3 game resources. Specifically intended to work with LiveNovel VN’s, but extraction should also work for other LiveMaker games.

Based on tinfoil’s irl.

Requires Python 3 (3.6 and later).

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3

• Documentation: https://pylivemaker.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Extract files from a LiveMaker .exe or .dat file.

• Dump LSB files to human-readable text or XML (similar to LiveMaker’s XML .lsc format).

• Extract LiveNovel LNS scripts from LSB files.

• Compile (modified) LNS scripts and insert them into LSB files.

• Patch (modified) LSB files into an existing .exe or .dat file.

License

pylivemaker / irl

Copyright (C) 2020 Peter Rowlands

Copyright (C) 2014 tinfoil

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Python

Copyright (c) 2001-2019 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

1.0.0 (2020-07-01)

• Added lmlpb tool for editing LPB project parameters

• Added livemaker.lsb.translate API

• Added menu translation API, text and LPM (image) menus are now supported

• Standardized CSV format for translatable text

• All CSV commands now support the --encoding parameter

• Fixed old logging bugs

• Added experimental lmgraph lsb command for generating LSB file execution graphs

• Added lmbmp helper utility for generating BmpToGale compatible image + mask pairs

Known issues:

• CSV scenario script translation does not currently support formatting tags. If you need advanced tag support, you will need to use the LNS script translation method.

Deprecated:

• --mode=lines for scenario text CSV commands

• Old CSV format (CSV files generated in 0.3.x are not compatible with 1.0)

0.3.2 (2020-05-04)

This will be the final release before v1.0.0 (which will break backwards compatibility with this release).

• Added extractcsv command for extracting scenario text to a CSV file

• Added insertcsv command for replacing scenario text from a CSV file

• Added lmlpb CLI tool for manipulating LPB project settings files.

Known issues:

• extractmenu and insertmenu commands only support using system locale/encoding when reading and writing CSV files.

Deprecated:

• Python 3.5 support. Future releases of pylivemaker will require Python 3.6 and later.

• Existing CSV CLI tool is deprecated. Future releases of pylivemaker will use a different CSV format which will not be compatible with CSV files generated in this release.

0.3.0 (2020-04-30)

• Added extractmenu command for extracting in-game menus to a CSV file

• Added insertmenu command for replacing in-game menus from a CSV file

• lmpatch now supports batch/recursive patching

0.2.1 (2020-03-13)

• Added lmgraph command for generating LSB script call graphs

• Refactored CLI tools (each tool moved to its own source file)

0.2.0 (2020-02-16)

• Added support for reading LM Pro scrambled (encrypted) archives

• HAlignEnum and VAlignEnum in livemaker/lsb/novel.py have been removed and replaced with AlignEnum

0.1.2 (2020-02-05)

• Added support for split VFF archives

• Added lmlsb edit command

• Added lmlsb batchinsert command

• Added support for reading GAL images, and galconvert CLI tool

0.1.0 (2019-03-07)

• First release on PyPI.