Question How can I shadow my old textmeshes ?

Hi, I've been looking around for a way to add a simple shadow to my old project using textmesh objects, I'm not going to update Unity and If I can't find a shader on-line ( I have tried come up dry ) so could I manually add a shadow to the font I'm using ? the font-material is an instance using 'GUI/Text Shader' - I suppose I could buy an asset, I'll check, but any help would be appreciated, thanks

 

Your best bet might be to clone each one, color it black, move it back in 3D space a hair, then move it right and down.

EDIT: removed my misguided ramblings about the viewport coordinate space. I had my TextMesh confused with my GUIText legacy... too much API!

 

OK Kurt thanks for the reply, I did actually try that on a couple of textmesh's and yes it was fine, I have some scripts which update certain textmesh's on the fly, I suppose I'll just make a clone of it and adjust my scripts accordingly to update my 'shadow' textmesh also at the same time, oh well, here we go... I have quite a few anyhew thanks

 

I would automate it: insert a single script in the scene that finds them all ONCE, then clones them.

Or if they are dynamic, clone them at creation time.

In the 9 minutes since I posted above, I added a dropshadow to my own ancient Kurt Arcade digits, doing exactly the above. Thanks for the idea, the text reads way better now... see enclosed. Run that scene and start clicking.