Construct 2 Translation Plugin

Translation made easy

Plugin ACEs table

Configuration files

There are two types of files :

• The language list
• The languages files

Language list

{
   "version":0.2,
   "fr":{                //language identifier 
      "path":"fr.lang",  //path of the file that contains French translations
      "name":"Français"  //Friendly name of the language
   },
   "en":{
      "path":"en.lang",
      "name":"English"
   }
}

Language file

Here the file is en.lang

{
    "hello" : "Hello, world!",
    "stupid_string" : "This is a stupid string", //"identifier" : "value"
    "try" : "try try try",
    "thanks" : "Thank for using."
}

You can also make nested identifiers to make it more clean

{
    "hello" : "Hello, world!",
    "menu" : {
    	"newgame" : "New Game",
    	"continue" : "Continue"
    }
}

The hard way (All objects supported)

You have to set manually for each field the lang you want to target and the identifier

Text > Set text to ProjectTranslation.GetString(currentLang, "hello")

currentLang is my current language, say fr or en "hello" is the identifier

The easy way

Supported Objects

• Text
• Button
• Spritefont/Spritefont+

How to set up

• Create a new text using the default text plugin
• Create a new instance variable called lang and assign an identifier to its value
• Call the Action Translate all default text plugins to and pass it the language
• All the text that have a lang instance variables are translated to the right text

No more pain :)

Note : To access nested identifiers use dot notation : menu.continue will output Continue

Note2 : To access global variables use @fullVariableName