[OPENSOURCE] Translation Editor for UE4

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Hi all!

I found some issues in default Translation Editor. So I decide to make own tool for editing localisations.

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Features:

  • Multiline editing. YES! It CAN insert a new line in the localized text :slight_smile:
  • Export and import translations in Excel.
  • Search by translation text.
  • Sort by any column.

Runtime dependencies:

  • .Net 4.0 or higher

**Using:**​​​​​​

How to change localizations in the program:

  • Gather and Compile translations in Unreal Engine 4
  • Open *.manifest file from [YOUR_PROJECT]\Content\Localization\Game
  • All *.archive files will be loaded automaticaly
  • Modify localization as you want. Press [Ctrl]+[Enter] to apply modifications to the selected translation.
  • Save to *.manifest file. All *.archive files will be saved automaticaly.
  • Gather and Compile translations in Unreal Engine 4 again.
  • Enjoy :slight_smile:

This program can export to Microsoft Excel as a single worksheet document. How to import and export localization with this program:

  • Open *.manifest file.
  • Press File → Export… and program will create Excel file.
  • You will get a document similar to this:

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  • Untranslated cells will be red. This will allow the translator to find them quickly.
  • You can modify the document as you want down to line: –== !!! DO NOT TRANSLATE THE TEXT BELOW !!! == SERVICE DATA ==–
  • You can sort rows as you like, but before importing, you need to sort them by the first column.
  • When you are done with translation, start the program and select File -> Import.
  • Select File → Save As… and save to your game *.manifest file.
  • Don’t forget to Gather and Compile translations in Unreal Engine 4 again.

Source code and license:

Latest builds:

I hope the tool will be useful for you.

Sincerely, Denis Maltsev.

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Added new version 1.1.0 to github.com. Now it’s supporting different modes of sorting. Just click on the necessary column.

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Added new version 1.2.0 with copy/paste functionality and small improvements.
Download link: Releases · rionix/LocalizationUE4 · GitHub
Sources link: GitHub - rionix/LocalizationUE4: Translation Editor for Unreal Engine 4
Enjoy! :wink:

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Great work! Seems like a really useful tool. I’ll give you feedback on that soon. :wink:

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Thanks! :slight_smile: The program may have errors, so do not forget to make backups. Also I have not tested the behavior of the utility with texts with empty namespaces.

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New version 1.3.0 with huge number of bugfix.
Download link: Releases · rionix/LocalizationUE4 · GitHub
Sources link: GitHub - rionix/LocalizationUE4: Translation Editor for Unreal Engine 4
Enjoy! :slight_smile:

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Hi! This tool sounds super promising for what I’m working on. However, whenever I try to import a manifest i get an error an error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” (null reference exception, i assume?). Do you have any ideas I can try? Thanks!

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I need to know where the message is occurred. Can you send a callstack for this message? If you have installed C#, it is possible to run a program in debug mode and locate the real place of the bug. It will be very helpful! :slight_smile:

By the way. Do not “Import” the mainifest file. You need to “Open” this file. Import for XLSX files.

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I have the same issue and the same error message. But I’m having it when I want to open manifest from my project folder. Not Import.

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This tool looks very useful, unfortunately I’m having the same issue “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”. I’m using UE4 4.24.

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I compiled it myself (which initially failed because of Excel errors, but I commented out the Excel import + export) and it’s causing an issue because ns.Children is null.

I had to guard against ns.Children being null 3 times:
InternalFormat.LoadFromManifest
InternalFormat.LoadFromArchive
MainFrame.UpdateLocaleListWithoutTranslation

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Thanks for reports! Looks like I am forgotten about namespaces can be in the another namespace… I will try to fix this in the future. We didn’t use this functionality in our game.

This cause the error:



#define LOCTEXT_NAMESPACE "ShooterGame.HUD.Menu"
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I have prepared a new version of the program 1.5.1. It now understands namespaces in namespaces. I hope it will fix the bug. Also increased the speed of DataGridView.

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New version 1.6.0 is ready. Excel serializer was switched to EPPlus 4.5. So, there are no dependencies on Microsoft Excel.

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Thank you Denis for sharing this awesome application! It’s very useful to me!

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I know this is an old thread but

I am unable to open my manifest file. I get the error Can’t GET record [Bunch of numbers] In Namespace

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@mdeni any chance you can build for 4.27? Version 1.6 can’t load the game manifest created in 4.47.

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I apologize for the delay in replying. Yes, right now everything works with UE 4.27. If there are problems in the future, it’s best to post directly to issues on github.

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Hello, friends. I want to translate the game Generation Zero to Brazilian Portuguese. Searching for a tool to do it, i found this topic, but this tool doesnt open any file on the folder from the game. Does anyone know any method to do it? Thx 4 all