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title: Extracting, converting, translating and reconverting Ren'Py games
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TODO: Add stuff about how to translate Ren'Py games 

You need three tools: Ren'Py SDK, rpatool.py (or any other program that can unarchive rpa) and renpy-ttk

Ren'Py games use an archive.rpa, wherein most of the game actually is. I don't believe it is nessecarry to extract the game to make translations, but that's what I do anyways. Here I use rpatool.py. See it's documentation on how to use it.

Once that is done, run renpy-ttk and generate a pot file. Once it is done, the pot file is uploaded to weblate. If there already are translations (finished or not), it may be a good idea to use renpy-ttk to get the po files for them, and upload them to weblate. For new translations, if you have a common.rpy translation, use Ren'Py SDK to generate the translation, then replace the common and then generate a po file that can be uploaded to weblate, this saves the translators time.

To update the translations from weblate. Download the po file, run renpy-ttk and use the sensible option. That should be it. Note the caveat with renpy-ttk: *something something, don't extract after update?*