Morph translation

[StrangerGithuber]

Hello
First of all, thank you your updates. You save my life. :)
Can you add a function which help to translate Morph japanese names to english?
"Rename bones to english" very handy so I though Morph translate also will be good.

(I wanted to add this in "Pull requests" but its appears on another developer site so I write here in Issues. I hope its appear here not there.)

[ptrthomas]

I think the "other developer" you are referring to is me ^_^

In fact I want to translate the material names also (which is useful especially when you export to other apps like Unreal Engine). I was planning to do this so let me look at morph names also.

[ptrthomas]

@LeaderSoul oh I see it now, you made a pull request on the original project by @sugiany . I am not the dev here - it is @powroupi - but I was involved in the english translation code.

[powroupi]

@LeaderSoul If you didn't intend to make the pull request sugiany#55, you might need to close it. (I guess you just wanted to make a feature request) :)

About "Morph translate", currently i don't have any good idea to implement it, and it's a little complex to integrate to "Morph Tools", sorry. 😢 Maybe @ptrthomas or other developers could help this, and i might try to implement it as well once i got any good idea. Thank you. 😄

[ptrthomas]

@powroupi I was looking at the code - and yes, it seems complex. I was thinking if we just fill the morph_name_e - would that help users who just want a translation. Or maybe, we just need a tooltip to show the translated name. Or something similar.

[powroupi]

@ptrthomas I was thinking if we just fill the morph_name_e - would that help users who just want a translation.

Yeah, it is much easier to do and maybe just add a import option or operator, say "Fill English Names", and then fill all .name_e stuff if the string is empty. :) But i think we still need a tool (or a rule) to update corresponding blender's name properties (shape key names, material names, etc.). 🤔

[lordscales91]

I don't how much the code changed since the last time I checked, but I think we could also add a property to VertexMorph to store the reference to the shape key (sk_name for example). That way the names of the shape keys can be in English, which is probably what @LeaderSoul wants. (Of course this will require more changes in other parts of the code that reference the shape keys)

[StrangerGithuber]

Specifically:
Can you add a new option in import part which is helps translate automatically the morphs name?