SDT Dialogue Editor – Write, Manage & Import Dialogues with Ease 1.2

I’ve always loved the dialogues created by the SDT community, especially the ones that feel dynamic — reacting to player actions and story beats. But when I tried writing my own, I quickly realized how painful the process is:

• The built-in editor is very limited
• Editing `.txt` files directly is tedious and error-prone
• Debugging mistakes is frustrating, since small typos or extra spaces can break things

To put it in perspective: the dialogue SinCity (by sorrowww) contains 1000+ variables, 5000+ line types, and 7000+ dialogue lines in a file over 12,000 lines long. Managing something like that with just a text editor is borderline impossible.

So… I decided to try to build a solution.

Introducing: Dialogue Editor for SDT

A tool designed to make writing and managing dialogues simple, structured, and far less error-prone.

Key Features:

• Dialogue Writing – Clean, structured editor for new dialogue lines
• Line Organization – Sort by type, style, conditions, and more
• Variable & Trigger Management – Define and reuse data without hunting through text files
• Import/Export – Bring in existing `.txt` dialogues or export ready-to-use game files
• Project Saves – Save your work as a project file (`.json`) and continue later
• Error Highlighting – Color-coded import with warnings, errors, and comments clearly marked
• Preview & Play – Instantly preview dialogue or simulate in-game delivery with a typewriter effect
• Templates– Reusable blocks of conditions/settings that can be inserted into your dialogue
  

Bonus:

• Import existing dialogues and review them instantly with automatic color-coding
• Built-in condition editor to handle complex branching logic

Install

• Download and unzip the release
• Run `Dialogue Editor.exe` (will prompt to install .NET if missing)

How to Use (Overview)

The app is divided into tabs, each focusing on an area:

• Project – Save/load projects, set metadata, import/export dialogues
• Dialogue – List, filter, edit, and create dialogue lines
• Line Types – Manage built-in and custom line types
• Variables – Define variables, set default values, and initialize them
• Triggers – Create and manage triggers
• Mods – Enable/disable mods located in the new `mods` folder
• Templates – Define reusable condition or setup blocks for faster writing (mods can also define templates)

Modding Support

All default settings are loaded from `.json` files located in the json folder.
You can now extend the editor without editing these defaults directly — instead, create or install mods in the mods folder and enable them in the Mods tab.

With this system you can:

• Add more Triggers
• Define new Line Types
• Define additional Variables
• Add default Dialogue lines
• Provide Templates through mods

This makes it possible to tailor the editor for different workflows or community presets without modifying the source code.

Included Mods

Out of the box, the editor comes with:

• MoreMoods – adds more moods to the game, by sby.
• DialogueActions – a loader mod that exposes more game-actions to dialogue writers, by pim_gd (incomplete).
• MoreTriggers – An addon for DialogueActions, by DrZombi.

Feedback & Community

I built this tool mainly because I could, and I thought it would help creative people write dialogues more easily.
If you find bugs or have feedback, feel free to share them — just keep in mind:

• I don’t plan on actively developing this further
• Small or critical issues might still get fixed if reported
• I encourage the community to create new mods and help expand the ones I’ve started.