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TextMesh Pro Creating TMP font during build runtime

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by Clonze, Mar 1, 2021.

  1. Clonze

    Clonze

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    Hi, I'm looking for a solution to read a .ttf file as bytes[] and somehow turn it into a TMPro FontAsset. I've spent a few hours and decided to move on to creating a TMPro FontAsset with Font.CreateDynamicFontFromOSFont in combination with TMP_FontAsset.CreateFontAsset, however I can't seem to get that working either.

    Maybe I can get access to unity source code for importing a UnityEngine.Font to use with TMP_FontAsset.CreateFontAsset? I have Unity Pro.

    Hoping anyone can shed some light on this, I'd really love to have this as a feature of my product, and the end users would love it.
     
    Clonze, Mar 1, 2021
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  2. Stephan_B

    Stephan_B

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    The Font.CreateDynamicFontFromOSFont() does not create a valid font object in the sense that it does not contain the font data.

    Instead use the following as per this post.

    Code (csharp):
    1.  
    2. // Get paths to OS Fonts
    3. string[] fontPaths = Font.GetPathsToOSFonts();
    4.  
    5. // Create new font object from one of those paths
    6. Font osFont = new Font(fontPaths[index]);
    7.  
    8. // Create new dynamic font asset
    9. TMP_FontAsset fontAsset = TMP_FontAsset.CreateFontAsset(osFont);
    10.  
     
    Stephan_B, Mar 1, 2021
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  3. Clonze

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    Thanks a bunch! it works! :D
    I think I got confused when the new Font(string) Intellisense was asking for a "name" but looks like it uses a file path?
     
    Clonze, Mar 1, 2021
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  4. Stephan_B

    Stephan_B

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    Correct.

    P.S. Check out the following post about Dynamic OS Font Assets which will be available in the next preview releases.

    upload_2021-2-28_22-32-35.png
     
    Stephan_B, Mar 1, 2021
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  5. Clonze

    Clonze

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    thanks for the update, I'm curious if that will fix the following issue that I noticed:

    Only certain fonts can be used with this method of OSFonts. I'm not sure why.
    How can I allow fonts that I install to show up? I'm trying to use fonts that are listed as Free for Commercial use.

    **** Nevermind, I think i figured that out.
    Only fonts with Font file names can be used! it works great again! :p
     
    Last edited: Mar 1, 2021
    Clonze, Mar 1, 2021
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