Official Localization System

Hi,

Since I haven't found any thread or card on this topic, I'd like to suggest the implementation of a localization system in the game, so multiple languages are supported.

There's a great tutorial on how to implement one very easily, and I've actually tried it in my own project and it works:

This is a good way to show that this is a "worldwide" project and, therefore, it supports other languages and not only English.

Since I am from Portugal, I can provide localization in Portuguese.

Translators from other languages are welcome to provide their own localization.

 

There's official preview package for Localization:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@0.8/manual/index.html
I think we would use it

 

Dapper Dino actually has a tutorial on how to implement the official Localization System, but apparently it is only available in Unity 2020.2 or later.

 

Well, that's good news, I suppose. But it's still a preview package, right?

 

Well, I did put this in the public domain, it's simple and quite flexible. It allows to localize text (including TextMesh Pro) and images: https://github.com/DFTGames/UnityLocalization

 

Sound designer here, if we do multiple languages I could gather some friends to record dialogue lines in french!

 

I'm from German, so I can translate the texts into German.

 

I like the idea, but ImHo we should stick to written dialogue. You being a sound designer means you probabily know how to get good audio quality and stuff, and that's good, but I'm afraid it isn't enough. Unless you and your friends are all good actors (which could be, I'm not assuming anything) the performance will likely be pretty bad, and bad acting is far worse than no acting at all. And it's no just a matter of performing, but also of chosing the right voices for the characters (also not as easy as it sounds).
And assuming that we can do all this, that's just ONE language. Repeat for how many languages we want to translate the game into.

Again, feel free to disagree with me on this, but I don't think we should take this path. Written text is a medium just as valid as voiced dialogue, at least for the scope of this game (if we wante to portray powerful emotions like regret or love a good acting choice might make the difference, but I don't think that this is the case). I think that just some "Hey" 's and "Hi" 's when approaching or leaving the characters like in BoTW will do

 

I'd also love to see the game support multiple languages, and I'll most likely offer help later (unless the amount of text becomes unreasonable). I'd be careful about voice acting, too; unless it's planned better than ‘I could gather some friends’ and it's made sure the voices really fit the characters, just like NicknEmart said. If that can't be done, no voice acting is absolutely fine, too.

About this; it's quite common to voice only the "main" one or two languages, and have subtitles available for the rest, so this specifically wouldn't be a big issue.

 

I can help with the texts in Spanish.

 

@NicknEmart ah, I assumed there was spoken dialogue for the english version, I must have misunderstood. In that case I completely agree!

 

I am ready to help with the translation into Russian.

 

I am from India, can translate to Hindi

 

I've wrote earlier a localization system where we were able to write all the strings in a google spread sheet and exported it as csv. Then put the csv as a resource in Unity and the system was parsing it. By attaching a component to each Text Control and assigning the specific key, the text was then replaced by value of the selected language.
This is maybe something i can offer to contribute

 

It sounds pretty well. The google spreadsheet easy way for many peoples to participate in project localization.

 

I can help translating into Chinese, both Mandarin and Cantonese!

 

I can help with the texts in spanish too along with @derera199

 

Rather than google spreadsheet, how if we:

1. make the default English string file in a specified folder for localization
   
2. from that English localization file, we can make a different file for any language localization
3. then we can input it to the game, better if the filename is the language localization id.

Let me know what you think about my idea. I'm ready for the Indonesian localization.

 

Per the last live stream, we’re using the localization package now, is this necessary anymore?

 

The localization package can also handle textures, I was counting on it for the boots on the cooking festival (hoping people might come up with plays on words in other languages, especially French).

 

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a little contribution to the localization system about Font Localization

Here is the idea:

The problem:

I added the locale “Chinese(Simplified)(zh)” then I added the Chinese line and Chinese flag to the tables. The Chinese characters are missing in TextmeshPro because of font missing:


So I download a Chinese font from Google font, and create the Textmesh Pro font asset (dynamic) and assign it to the TextmeshProUGUI, we have this:

The Chinese font downloaded:


The result:


The Chinese words shows but the other fonts changed too, which it’s not what we want.

(To be continued..)

 

The Solution:

Since we are using the localization package, we should localize the font according to the game language.

Here are the steps:

1. Create a font asset table.


2. Create the entry with the key ‘font’ and assign different font to different languages.


3. Go to TextmeshProUGUI, right click and hit “Localize String And Font” button. By doing this, two components will be added to the gameobject. One for string localization and the other for font.


By default, everything on the component “LocalizeTMProFontEvent” is already set up. It automatically finds the table entry with the name key “font”(so make sure you set the key ‘font’ at the previous step)

The only thing we need to set up is the string entry. Here I will choose the ‘beach’.


4. Final result:



So my little contribution contains two scripts:

A monobehaviour script for the component “Localize TMPro Font Event”
An Editor script for the right click context menu “Localize String And Font”

Is it good to create a pull request like this?
I am not too experienced so please let me know how can we improve this!

Thank you!
Brett

 

Certainly localizing the font is a good thing. We might have difficulties to find a font that works for all the possible scripts, like for example arabic.

But actually I like the playful font that you have in your error more for our game. It's intended to be a fun game, not an official letter from the tax office or something.

Are we free to use the it from copyright point of view?

 

It's just from GoogleFonts so I think they are all open source fonts.

 

How can we watch record? I followed link in tweet and register to zoom but zoom says " You can't watch. No permission".

 

Here you go:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/localization-package-beta-webinar-and-q-a.1016074/#post-6665065

 

Hello everyone,
I need some help with the Localization package. I used it to create a very simple text translated in English and French (en, en-GB, en-US, fr). But I don't understand how I can use the locale selectors in the settings to automatically select French at launch (my system is in French). Each time I launch the game, the language is English, even with the SystemLocaleSelector. These are my settings:
I would like to use the CommandLineLocaleSelector, but I have no idea about how to insert the argument dynamically (and what argument to give). And I don't understand why the SystemLocaleSelector does not returns French.
Could you please help me ?

 

This is only about the package, I guess I'm not in the right thread? I only found this one talking about the Localization package.

 

Thank you, I created a new thread in the correct forum to answer. Sorry for asking here! And good luck to all of you working on this open project!