Betrayal at Krondor Translation Tools

Development moved to https://github.com/old-games/bak-translation-tools

This project is a set of tools for manipulating the resources of the Betrayal at Krondor video game to enable translation of the game to different languages (it was created to make a Russian translation, but may be used for other languages).

The project is not affiliated with the original authors of Betrayal at Krondor, not the developers of the xbak port.

Requirements

Python 3.10 or later
poetry for dependency management (see https://python-poetry.org/docs/)
Tcl/Tk for GUI tools (Font Editor) - on Windows it is bundled with Python
- On MacOS you may need to install it with brew install tcl-tk and brew install python-tk
C++ compiler for building Python C extensions (on Windows you can install Visual Studio with Python support enabled, including the "Python native development tools" component)

Installation

Run poetry install to install the dependencies.

Command Line Tools

poetry python -m baktt.resources - extracts/archives resource files from/to krondor.001 / krondor.rmf
poetry python -m baktt.fonts - Operations on the font files (.FNT)
poetry python -m baktt.book - Operations on the book files (.BOK)
poetry python -m baktt.images - Operations on the image files (.PAL, .SCX, .BMX)

Use --help flag to see the available options.

The Font Editor

Run the font editor with poetry python -m baktt.gui.font_editor

Building the Font Editor for Windows

Make sure you have all requirements installed and have the project set up (see above).
Install PyInstaller: poetry run python -m pip install PyInstaller
Build the executable file: poetry run python -m PyInstaller --noconsole --onefile .\tools\src\baktt\gui\font_editor.py
The .exe file is saved to dist folder.