Reproduction Steps
You can check the BedWars (game id 2619619496) localization settings & table. Clearly no new strings are being added despite “Automatic Text Capture” being enabled.
This issue might have been due to us manually clearing untranslated strings by uploading a CSV to the game only containing translated content. Prior to that it was correctly capturing strings but “Clear untranslated auto-captured strings” was not working properly (so we manually cleared all those strings). Since then it has not captured any new strings.
Expected Behavior
Strings from the game to be automatically added to our localization table.
Actual Behavior
No new strings have been added to the translation table after over a week of waiting.
Issue Area: Roblox Website Page URL:Roblox Impact: High Frequency: Constantly
Hmm I never came across this issue as a translator. As far as I know they take time to be captured according to experiences. According to my friend this issue is there for like almost a year now Problem with Auto-text capturing
I confirm that I am also having issues with Automatic text capture not capturing new text.
I released an update on my game on the 26th of February with new text to be captured, but today, only a very small amount of them have been captured. I don’t remember capture being this long in the past.
It’s happening on this game: Survive and Kill the Killers in Area 51 !!! - Roblox
Just so you know, it’s not the same issue with the post. The issue that I encountered was a result of the “type-writer” effect.
Strings may take days, or even weeks before being captured. Military Tycoon, one of the games that I worked on once experienced the same problem. It took the game almost 2 weeks for the first few strings to appear in the portal, then the other strings came in at a very slow pace. A temporary solution for this would be manually adding the new strings into the portal.
I just wanted to bump and mention that I’m having this issue too.
I had automatic text capture turned off because it was capturing the UI used in cheating tools but I turned it back on for an update but nothing new is coming in.
Hey there, thanks for your reports and feedback here. For OP @spleenhook, this is an expected behavior for ATC - when automatically captured entries are manually deleted by devs, they will not be recaptured again. This is to prevent ‘garbage’ strings from repeatedly filling up localization tables. However, we are actively working on improving the automatic text capture system to address some of these concerns - stay tuned!