Extracting Dialogue

A small portion of the data from Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is used for demonstration purposes on this website. In order to play around with the full dialogue graph from the game, you’ll first need to obtain a legal copy of the game on a platform that can run either AssetStudio or AssetRipper.

Below you’ll see the steps for extracting dialogue from the Steam version of the game on a Windows PC (screenshots are actually taken on macOS using Parallels using AssetStudio).

Step 1

Download and extract AssetStudio, then double-click AssetStudioGUI to run the application.

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Choose File > Load Folder from the menu bar.

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Navigate to the directory where the game files are stored on disk and select the folder for AssetStudio to load the asset bundles.

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After loading, switch to the Asset List pane and choose to sort by the Size column from largest to smallest. The dialogue graph should be the largest asset with the name Disco Elysium.

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Right-click on the asset and choose Export selected assets from the context menu. Choose where to save the dialogue graph on disk. It will be named Disco Elysium.json and in a folder titled MonoBehavior.

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