Text in World space with collision

Hi,

I would like to create some elements in my product that contains text but also have collisions.
These are the requirements:
1- Elements have a background image
2- Elements contain text which needs to be dynamic to support localization.
3- Elements will resize based on the text with option to decide on vertical or horizontal resize.
4- Elements have 2d Colliders

Requirements 1 to 3 are already satisfied by the current UI system so it would be great to simply being able to add a 2D box collider to it. I tried to create a canvas in world coordinates but unfortunately, due to the very small scale on the canvas, I get the following error when i add a 2D collider to the element.
"The Collider did not create any collision shapes as they all failed verification"
Is there a workaround to this problem?

Alternatively I could create an element with a sprite in the world with collision and find a different way to add text to it. This would require quite a bit of extra work to re-create the resize logic, the image sliced borders etc... Do you guys have any suggestion in this direction? Maybe the old OnGUI?

Thanks for your help

 

Sharing my solution in case someone else faces the same problem.

I used the new UI for the graphical part. Then I created a script that run only in the editor and dynamically create new game objects with a BoxCollider2D that match the UI elements size and position every time the scene is updated.
I kept the new collision objects outside the canvas hierarchy so they are not affected by the scale issue.

Works well so far and it was pretty fast to implement.

 

Hi, nice solution, can you share some code, i never created editor only scripts.
thanks