[HOWTO] How To: Localize Variable Text in Alerts

[Tony Li]

If you've assigned a Text Table to the Dialogue Manager's Display Settings > Localization Settings > Text Table field, then when you show an alert the Dialogue System will check if the alert message matches a field name in the Text Table. If so, it will use the translation for the current language.

You may at times have a need to show variable text, such as "You earned [xpEarned] XP and [goldEarned] coins".

However, the catch is that different languages have different syntax. So it's not just a matter of translating "You earned" + "XP and" + "coins". Instead:

1. In your Text Table asset, use {0} as a placeholder for xpEarned and {1} as a placeholder for goldEarned:

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2. In C#, use DialogueManager.GetLocalizedText() to get the localized value of the Text Table field:

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string s = DialogueManager.GetLocalizedText("Earned");

3. Use String.Format() to replace the placeholders:

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s = string.Format(s, xpEarned, goldEarned);

4. Send this string to DialogueManager.ShowAlert():

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DialogueManager.ShowAlert(s);

See also: How To: Handle Player Gender In Dialogue Text