Hello, I’m wondering if anyone has taken advantage of Comment metadata on localized strings without embedding it in the final game. I think I’m seeing that it’s still embedded in my game, and we don’t use it for anything at runtime, so I’d like to remove it - probably during builds?
Thought I’d mention it here in case there’s a simple or recommended solution I’m not seeing.
You could try adding #if UNITY_EDITOR to the comment metadata class. You will need to move the package code from the package cache into the project packages folder.
Removed internal comment field/property of the comment metadata class using #if UNITY_EDITOR, seems to work. Removing the class entirely broke things.
Is this still the only way to achieve this? The comments data can get quite big in projects with many languages and including it seems like a waste. I’ve also noticed antivirus tools can detect links in the translation comments that translators included there for references to words/memes etc. When your game contains links to random foreign sites it can seem a bit suspicious.
It’d be nice if there was a way to remove it in build without editing the code of the package yourself.
No not at the moment. We did used to have idef UNITY_EDITOR on the Comment class but it caused some errors so we had to remove it. I think having it on the field is likely the correct approach. Ill add a task for us to look into adding this support.
For now a workaround is to modify the package code as suggested earlier.