TextMesh Pro How to generate a Font Asset from a bitmap font

Hello,
I have a custom bitmap font that I want to use. I can't figure out how to generate a font asset from a bitmap font. It seems that the type Font only accepts .ttf and .otf fonts. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this?
Percy

 

What format / file type is this bitmap font using?

 

I just have a texture at the moment. I did start looking into .fnt and .fon files, but stopped when I found the "Custom font" section of the Font docs. It describes how to make a custom font. However, it seems to only work with Unity Text. I think it'd be nice if it could work with TextMeshPro as well. Also, defining the character rects is very tedious. I plan to write a script to automatically set those tomorrow. It'd be nice to have a tool to automatically define them based on settings (kind of like the slice tool in the sprite editor).

 

Hello! Were you able to find a solution to this?

 

I gave up on trying to get TMP to work with bitmap fonts :/

 

I was attempting to do something similar here https://forum.unity.com/threads/creating-a-pixel-font-from-a-bitmap-image.1260656/ and also hit a snag, but I may have gotten a bit farther than you did. Perhaps my workflow could help you out?

 

I gave up on bitmap fonts tbh, but if I want to give it another go sometime, I'll revisit that thread. Thanks for sharing!

 

See my reply to the above referenced thread.