Localization (translation) - Unreal Engine 5 beginner tutorial

[@tamiryes1619]

great, brief explanation of the localization system, thanks!

[@LeafBranchGames]

My pleasure!

[@esuriddick]

Finally found a good video explaining localization. Thank you!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Glad to hear you found it useful. :)

[@KomodoBitGames]

thank you for making this tutorial, I know its a few years old but its still a good resource.

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you. :)

[@hodainium]

Thank you for the video. Saved me a lot of time with understanding the unreal docs

[@LeafBranchGames]

Glad to hear it. :)

[@TheCreator1337]

Thank you for the clear overview! The docs didn't really make it clear where to start, so this video was a godsend. Now I finally understand how to do localization and where stuff like String Tables fit into the picture. With that, I was able to localize text defined in C++ with relative ease, in addition to Blueprint-based text. This has been a topic I've put off long enough, but in hindsight, it's not so bad!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Glad to hear you found it useful!

[@EFX612]

super useful tutorial, thank you so much for sharing!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Very happy to hear that!

[@Sirhaian]

A fantastic introduction to localization, thank you!!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you. :)

[@yashkhd1100]

Great..this was very clean and to the point...!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you!

[@benoit_locu]

Very clear. Thks

[@LeafBranchGames]

My pleasure!

[@BR1.618]

Great video, thanks!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you!

[@kevinvonbriel]

Thank You very much :D it´s easier than i thought

[@LeafBranchGames]

You are very welcome!

[@muppet_rat]

Thank you for the video! Very good. You have a new subscriber. I look forward to future tutorials on localization and internationalization.

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you for your support. :)

[@imblackmagic1209]

thanks, it was very useful and to the point!

[@LeafBranchGames]

Glad to hear it!

[@phipsinator]

What a great Video! Learned a lot! Thank you so much.

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you, happy to hear it!

[@Owenfication]

Thanks for this tutorial! Do you have a video or suggest a video on introducing a menu option for players to choose the language? I'm guessing this isn't something players can choose on Steam, but need to change a setting within the game?

[@Yokitolakaka]

Very nice tutorial, but I'm having a problem, when I compile the translations (all of them) and restart the engine, the translations doesn't appear so I can select them like in your video in 13:15 Edit: I just see that I can't select an option for loading policy other than never... Edit 2: Even if I can't select that option, the localization works in standalone mode and via widget.

[@LeafBranchGames]

Have not run into that issue before, so not really sure what could be the cause.

[@touchpadplayer]

had the same problem and you just need to restart your pc (that fixed the problem for me)

[@özgilbabo]

I have the same problem. If anyone has a fix please comment. Rebooting didn't work haha.

[@Yokitolakaka]

@@özgilbabo I didn't "fixed" it just works, when you package the game or play in standalone.

[@CristobalAtria]

I was having this issue and the problem was that I changed the name of the Game Target from "Game" to something else. I renamed it again to "Game" and now it's working

[@Porikor]

I use ue5.2 as soon as I click on Gather Text for the first time the engine creates a folder structure "Localization" included "Game" included folders for each language. I thought it would be fine to save the string table in the first folder but than the string table was excluded from the translation list, so I had to move the string table somewhere else. Thanks for the tutorial. Now I need to learn how to set up dialogues with translation and a language switch button.

[@LeafBranchGames]

❤

[@MrSobyn]

Thank you so much! This was the exact problem I encountered today. Cheers!

[@ResonanceRebirth]

I have a lot of data assets with FText data inside, but when I go to Gather Text it doesn't find anything ...

[@Dondesocupado]

Good video, thanks.

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you. :)

[@kimdahyun4424]

how to edit the localization file with the format PAK. so that it can be translated into the language we want

[@ЮраНедашковский-г7ш]

I didn’t understand, if a player downloads the game, how can he change the localization?

[@LeafBranchGames]

Usually from a setting either in the game or from default OS language.

[@ЮраНедашковский-г7ш]

@@LeafBranchGames I mean, you don't know?

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@ЮраНедашковский-г7ш Don't know what? It depends on how you as a developer configure your game like to work. So it depends.

[@michaeleber4752]

So frustrating. I followed your tutorial to the letter! I got my list back and populated English then translated Spanish. All was good. Then I compiled everything, went to my menu, and...NADA. It continues to just say None. And when I try to open the dropdown box every time it crashes the editor.

[@Glorious_Deccan]

Awesome tutorial, thanks, need one more for whole game language changing, per se , you change the choice of language in the start menu and the whole game follow the same language for all like widgets, interaction, text information blueprint etc, like we play on console, please share any link if you know Thank you

[@LeafBranchGames]

Thank you! I don't know of any such tutorial, I might make one in the future though.

[@reneschindhelm4482]

Thank you. Any guidance on how to localize Enums? E.g. populate combobox with enum values, but instead of just printing the friendly name, display a localized text.

[@LeafBranchGames]

You simply don't, since an enum is not of a localizable type.

[@serkanayhan]

Thanks for the video. Can you explain in the next video how to select localization on the game start menu when game starts

[@LeafBranchGames]

I can put it on my to do list.

[@serkanayhan]

@@LeafBranchGames Thank you

[@musilab]

It's indeed a great video! Congrats! Just wondering... Do you have any idea why I cannot Gather Text? It's always zeroed and no progress happens. I added the folders inside Gather from Packages, set loading Policy to Game, already deleted Intermediate and other folders and nothing make it gather the texts. Any suggestion here?

[@LeafBranchGames]

Have not run into that issue unfortunately. Does it happen in every project you try, even small empty ones?

[@musilab]

Hi, Thanks for replying! I tested now and it worked on new third person template project. I created the localization a year ago for a big project and copied the project to another folder. From there I developed another project based on the first one. Everything else is working fine, but the localization never updates, even if I delete the files and start from scratch. I don't know exacly how to reset it. I tried creating a new ID for some widgets as well... nothing seems to work. I might be missing something (maybe silly).@@LeafBranchGames

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@musilab Weird. I could not find much on the issue, this was the closest one. forums.unrealengine.com/t/localization-gathering-text-produces-no-output-and-fails/485174

[@Ezeriasz]

this works for all texts, like for dialogues, conversations etc?

[@LeafBranchGames]

As long as it meets the requirements that I mention in the tutorial, yes.

[@javisartdesign]

great! thanks!

[@LeafBranchGames]

My pleasure. :)

[@KeithKazamaFlick]

Thanks friend

[@LeafBranchGames]

My pleasure. :)

[@datguycow]

Thanks for the vid! Uhm, can you please make a tutorial for localization blueprint on left and right clicked buttons coz everyone on youtube explaining localization on combobox as dropdown menu. Also mostly combo box tutorials are outdated as well.

[@LeafBranchGames]

That doesn't sound like a localization tutorial but rather a UI tutorial. I have plenty of those on the channel.

[@datguycow]

@@LeafBranchGamesCan you link me one of them according to my issues, thanks for the respond!

[@Dae-hyeon]

I'm so busy these days that I don't have enough time to studying after watching your video 😥😥 Nevertheless, thank you so much for continuously posting videos 👍

[@LeafBranchGames]

That is ok. You will find the time eventually. :)

[@Dae-hyeon]

@@LeafBranchGames I'm finally done. It was a very vert truly informative video. Thanks to this, I came up with various develop ideas using this video. Really Thanks

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@Dae-hyeon Glad to hear it. :)

[@BartoszCylich]

How can I make it so the user can actually change the language of the game?

[@bkkaan52]

How am i gonna make an options for language settingS?

[@LeafBranchGames]

What do you mean?

[@bkkaan52]

@@LeafBranchGames on settings menu i want to be able to change the language manually

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@bkkaan52 Call the set language node from your settings.

[@magikarp2063]

It works well in the editor but when the game starts I can use "Set current language", while the language is supposed to be set the text in the ui does not update. I suppose we have to do this manually somehow?

[@michaeleber4752]

Ahhh help me! I followed your tutorial and my game is localized for English and Spanish. When I was done with translations I closed that window before I closed the dashboard. Now, when I open the dashboard it does not open the other window that searches for words. So I cannot also compile the two languages to test things out in the UI!!! How do I recover from this???

[@raphaelchagas1676]

How do I do it in a game that is already finished? I'm in charge of translating a game to Brazilian Portuguese but I have no idea how to access the .po files as this is my first time ever with Unreal Engine

[@LeafBranchGames]

There should be no difference between a finished game and what is shown in the tutorial.

[@tradeandmagicofficial2563]

Hi there, with this method the Engine will automatically know the OS system and change culture indipendently or i must set up other things to localize correctly the shipped game?

[@silentwindstudio]

What worries me is that this method only translate words 1:1, it does not take into consideration the dialogue context. What if we have complex dialogue lines?

[@LeafBranchGames]

Not sure where you got that idea from.

[@silentwindstudio]

@@LeafBranchGames well, in the video you show only words being collected and translated one by one. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@silentwindstudio No, I show variables being collected. A variable can contain one word, two words, a hundred words.

[@silentwindstudio]

@@LeafBranchGames In this case forget everything I said, my mistake lol

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@silentwindstudio 👍

[@xdragon5502]

Can you show the blueprint?

[@LeafBranchGames]

The relevant parts of the blueprints are shown in the video.

[@eRatube]

Thank you very much for this video. However, I have a problem with gathering text. When I press 'Gather text' it shows me an error in the log: 'LogGatherTextCommandlet: Error: Source Control error: Source control is not enabled.' It also shows a red + instead of a green checkbox. I checked 'Automatically checkout' in the 'Editor Settings -> Loadings & Savings' menu, but it didn't help. I don't know what to do(

[@LeafBranchGames]

Are you following the tutorial or doing this on your own project?

[@eRatube]

@@LeafBranchGames on my own

[@LeafBranchGames]

@@eRatube I don't know what the error is caused by. But by following the tutorial first to see if you can get it to work in a basic and controlled environment might give you some insight to something you may have missed in your own project.

[@shion1364]

Nyaaa, thanks :3

[@LeafBranchGames]

You are very welcome. :)

[@bananacomputer9351]

So I gues it's not hard to have an English version first ,then focus on new language at last?

[@LeafBranchGames]

Yes, that is a perfectly reasonable approach as long s you keep in mind what types of of variables to use in the situations that apply.

[@muntasirdawlut]

i have one issue that is, it is retrieving enum, comments and all these stuff do you know an approach to make it stick to text ? this tutorial is a real time saver thanks for these awesome tuts 😎✌

[@LeafBranchGames]

Could you explain more in detail what you are trying to do?

[@opatechnus]

It does not work, I did everything like you and it did not found any text

[@LeafBranchGames]

It does sound like you missed some part. But if you feel like you did each step, you can check the UE official documentation on localization and see if there is a step there you missed.

[@krilankil3056]

Polska gurom !!!!11

[@Re_murr]

Most people speak Chinese ))