TextMesh Pro Chinese font problems

I search for a .ttf Chinese font online and import into my project. I then use it to in the Font Asset Creator and every time the image on the right shows plain English characters?

Then if I try to update the material it always automatically switches back to LiberationSans SDF

Totally confused, can some one help please, I really need to use Chinese characters in my app :-(

Thanks

 

I found an online tutorial that shows how to use Font Asset Creator but regardless of font I choose and I see the atlas is created when I enter my Chinese in the TMP field all I see in the editor in my scene is a bordered square?

Can seem to get Chinese to appear at all?

 

Thanks, I've tried at least 4 different fonts that are Chinese ones and although I get the atlas create WITH the characters I pasted in as the custom characters I still only get the blank square.

I've since ditched this approach and am using images instead as wasting too much time on TMP, which is a shame :-(

 

Thanks! I will revisit, appreciate the help

 

Hi All, I want to make TMP Font for Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), anyone know where can I get the full list for custom character list for Chinese font?

Thank you.

 

Has anyone been able to use TextMeshPro to import a Chinese font? @Stephan_B thanks for linking to that table, but how can we use it to import a character set? You were able to import a font with enough characters to show specific text, but how can I allow users to write names or chat?

I have been searching the forums but I still have no idea how to include the necessary characters.

 

OK so in my setup I am using the font 华文楷体.tff but I do not know what to select in the Character Set option, currently ASCII which explains a lot! How would I know what custom characters to put in? Does TMP not read the tff file?

 

Kudos! Thank you, perfectly answered

 

Hi, the font is 华文楷体.tff, Im looking for a download but no luck yet, can I copy it to you somewhere? It looks like the issue is in the Unity Editor and if I close the scene and reopen then they start to appear?

 

Did you see my PM?

 

I am trying to paste Hindi font from Microsoft word document but the characters are not showing. It is showing bunch of boxes. Another thing is I can type the font in Unity editor but that also not correct. Is there any other process that I can follow. Please help. I am attaching some images for reference.

 

How display Chinese in Text Mesh Pro?
Please help me.
Thanks for any help.

 

Hi, Stephan_B!

I am making a game MOD these days. The requirement is: replace the original Font in the game with the Chinese Font Font Asset made by TexMesh Pro in the way of AssetBundle hot update package. Since there is no source code of the game, you can only directly modify the Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll. I have tried to modify the LoadFontAsset method of the TextMeshProUGUI class as follows:

Original code snippet:

Code (CSharp):

1.     protected override void LoadFontAsset()
2.     {
3.         ShaderUtilities.GetShaderPropertyIDs();
4.         if (m_fontAsset == null)
5.             {
6.                 if (TMP_Settings.defaultFontAsset != null)
7.                     m_fontAsset = TMP_Settings.defaultFontAsset;
8.                 else
9.                     m_fontAsset = Resources.Load<TMP_FontAsset>("Fonts & Materials/LiberationSans SDF");
10.                 if (m_fontAsset == null)
11.                 {
12.                     Debug.LogWarning("The LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found. There is no Font Asset assigned to " + gameObject.name + ".", this);
13.                     return;
14.                 }
15.                 if (m_fontAsset.characterDictionary == null)
16.                 {
17.                     Debug.Log("Dictionary is Null!");
18.                 }
19.                 m_sharedMaterial = m_fontAsset.material;
20.             }
21.  

The modified code snippet:

Code (CSharp):

1.     protected override void LoadFontAsset()
2.     {
3.         ShaderUtilities.GetShaderPropertyIDs();
4.         if (m_fontAsset == null)
5.             {
6.                 AssetBundle assetBundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "Mods", "font"));
7.                 this.m_fontAsset = assetBundle.LoadAsset<TMP_FontAsset>("msyh SDF");
8.                 assetBundle.Unload(false);
9.                 if ((UnityEngine.Object) this.m_fontAsset == (UnityEngine.Object) null)
10.                 {
11.                   this.m_fontAsset = UnityEngine.Resources.Load<TMP_FontAsset>("Fonts & Materials/LiberationSans SDF");
12.                   if ((UnityEngine.Object) this.m_fontAsset == (UnityEngine.Object) null)
13.                   {
14.                     Debug.LogWarning((object) ("The LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found. There is no Font Asset assigned to " + this.gameObject.name + "."), (UnityEngine.Object) this);
15.                     return;
16.                   }
17.                 }
18.                 if (m_fontAsset == null)
19.                 {
20.                     Debug.LogWarning("The LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found. There is no Font Asset assigned to " + gameObject.name + ".", this);
21.                     return;
22.                 }
23.                 if (m_fontAsset.characterDictionary == null)
24.                 {
25.                     Debug.Log("Dictionary is Null!");
26.                 }
27.                 m_sharedMaterial = m_fontAsset.material;
28.             }
29.  

Good recompile the Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll file into the game testing, I expected effect is through in the run-time dynamic loading game contains msyh SDF.asset AssetBundle font file, the file absolute path is "Application.dataPath/Mods/font", achieve the goal of uniform use of msyh SDF in the game this Font Asset; After debugging, I can be sure that my modified method has been executed correctly, but found that all the fonts in the game are not displayed any more! Could you please tell me how to modify it to achieve the desired effect? Is my modification method incorrect? Looking forward to your reply, thank you!

 

For anyone else finding this thread, we were having issues even after following all of these instructions and trying different fonts. For us we had to increase the Atlas Width and Atlas Height settings on our NotoSansSC-Regular SDF font that we were using from 2048 to 4096 and all the missing characters started to show.

Hope that helps!

 

I have not, but I can't find that option anywhere on my font asset.
I'm on Unity 2018.4.13 and TMPro 1.4.1.

 

Hi Stephan_B we have a problem with Tex mesh pro Atlas and Chinese character.

We make the atlas with all the text i have in game and it works, but we have input fields where the player can write a name and there we have the square-missing-font problem because we do not know which name the player will type.



Is there a solution to have all characther in the atlas?

 

Thank you so much for the reply!

 

this was the solution for us!! Finally https://www.alphasmart.online/2019/11/textmesh-pro-language-fonts-for-unity.html

 

@david-milian that link is dead now ...