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Hello!
I've got an error in the console while implementing TMP in my project:

TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'UnityEngine.AdditionalCanvasShaderChannels' from assembly 'UnityEngine, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.OnPreRenderCanvas ()
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.Rebuild (CanvasUpdate update)
UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/unity/build/Extensions/guisystem/UnityEngine.UI/UI/Core/CanvasUpdateRegistry.cs:149)
UnityEngine.Canvas:SendWillRenderCanvases()

Unity 5.5.2f1

I tried to reinstall Unity and TextMesh Pro, created empty project and imported TMP, but nothing changed.
This error repeats every time I change text in TEXT INPUT BOX. And there is nothing change in the scene/player view

 

Ok I have sent a PM. I am waiting for the shaders.

 

On a blank project after importing TextMesh Pro from the asset store window, I am getting the following error:

Deleting theTextMesh Pro folder, and re-importing from the asset store has no effect. I am using Unity 5.4.3.
I am not getting this error in Unity 5.6.0.

I am really excited about this being released for free. I've been following the asset for years it seems, but I'm pretty poor, so I was stuck wishing until now, haha.

 

Yeah, that didn't work, unfortunately. I'll try to figure it out, but in the meantime, I guess I'll just use Unity 5.6, even if it is a little buggy. Thanks for the quick response

 

Hi,

I'm on Unity 5.6.0f3 and when I import the latest version of TMP, I get this error in the console:

Spoiler: NullReferenceException

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
TMPro.TMP_Settings.get_defaultFontAsset ()
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.LoadFontAsset ()
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.OnValidate ()

It works fine when I press play, but I'm just wondering if this is an issue I should be concerned about or not. Thanks in advance.

 

Yes, I really installed Unity 5.5 after downgrade from 5.6.
Thanks, I'll relog my unity account

 

Any insight on how TextMeshPro will be included as the standard text component in Unity 2017?

Could it just replace standard TextMesh component or provide an option to upgrade existing TextMesh components in a scene ? Would that be feasible? (assuming the behaviour/existing settings can be translated to the new TextMeshPro component.

 

So, I tried to relog several times, but nothing changed.
I can't do anything with the TMP (UI), getting the error:
TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'UnityEngine.AdditionalCanvasShaderChannels' from assembly 'UnityEngine, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.OnPreRenderCanvas ()
TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.Rebuild (CanvasUpdate update)
UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/unity/build/Extensions/guisystem/UnityEngine.UI/UI/Core/CanvasUpdateRegistry.cs:149)
UnityEngine.Canvas:SendWillRenderCanvases()

As I understand, I get Unity 5.6 version of TMP, while using 5.5 in the project?
Any ideas?

 

Hello,

Since I have not seen TextMeshPro in the Unity's scripting reference yet, I was wondering if there is a way to figure out at runtime wether a text was elipsed by TMP or not.
I need to display a "..More" button / link in case the text is too long, but for that I need to know wether TMP elipsed the text on screen or not.

If this is not yet implemented, perhaps this would be something for the future.

 

Stephan, can you point me to the correct direction to download the previous working shaders for new Nintendo 3DS, I need to test my project and I want something working.

 

Stephan, every time I build the game in N3DS I get these errors:

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field Overlay': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program with UNDERLAY_ON

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field Overlay': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program with UNDERLAY_ON OUTLINE_ON

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program with UNDERLAY_ON

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program

Shader error in 'TextMeshPro/Mobile/Distance Field': C:\Users\...
Compiling Vertex program

Any clues?

 

I have a TextMeshProUGUI object that is in Paging mode. When it gets to the end (last page) of text, I want to dynamically create a button underneath the last line of text.

I am having a hard time making sense of the coordinates I get from the characterInfo struct.

I'm using Unity 5.6

I am getting the coordinates of the last character of text (I've also tried getting the baseline of the last line) and placing the button's coords down on the y-axis a pre-determined amount and all the way to the left.

When I get the coords of the last character I do it like this:
Vector3 bottomLeft = mesh.textInfo.characterInfo [mesh.textInfo.characterCount - 1].bottomLeft;

This gives me a result of (56.2, -35.3, 0.0). (My Canvas is 300x300, something I arbitrarily set for now). However, if I manually place an object using the Scene Editor and align it with the last character, Unity tells me its RectTransform coords are (206.8, -63.5, 0). These latter coords, whichever coordinate system they're using, seem to agree with the results I get when I dynamically create a button within code. But that is not matching up with the coords I am getting from characterInfo. Why the discrepancy?

What coordinate system does characterInfo use? I've tried converting the result I get from characterInfo using camera.WorldtoScreenPoint, camera.ScreentoWorldPoint, and transform.TransformPoint, but none of these result in coords that I can make sense of either.

Thank you for any help!

 

Another Nintendo 3DS error. In UI screen space camera. I have a 'text mesh pro UGUI' object and when I had an image under it in the hierarchy the object overlapped it and the text could not be seen, now in the editor the text is over everything else even if the images are under it in the hierarchy. This is very annoying.

 

Hi Stephan, thanks for your response!

I've looked at the TextInfoDebugTool script and I see the following line:
Vector3 bottomLeft = m_Transform.TransformPoint(cInfo.bottomLeft);

But when I do this in my code, it only changes the z position.

This code:

Transform myTransform = gameObject.GetComponent<Transform> ();
Vector3 bottomLeft = mesh.textInfo.characterInfo [mesh.textInfo.characterCount - 1].bottomLeft;
print("bottomLeft = " + bottomLeft);
print("Transformed bottomLeft = " + myTransform.TransformPoint(bottomLeft));

Produces this result:

bottomLeft = (56.2, -35.3, 0.0)
Transformed bottomLeft = (56.2, -35.3, -10.0)

So the x and y values are unchanged and still have the same issue as before, in that they don't seem to align with the coordinates of my dynamically generated objects. I feel like I must be missing something obvious...? Thank you for your help.

 

I believe I've solved my issue. There were two issues.

First, I needed to be using the Transform of the TextMeshPro object in order to get the correct TransformPoint behavior. I'd thought that's what I was using but I guess gameObject.GetComponent<Transform>() was not giving me what I thought it was.

Second, it appears characterInfo coords are using a reference frame where the origin is the bottom left corner. In order for the coords of my dynamically generated objects to make sense with the character coordinates, I had to set the anchor of my dynamically generated objects to be the lower left corner as well.

 

Ite feels silly to ask a simple question like this, but how can I access the basic variables such as "Face - dilate" (available in the custom inspector for TextMeshProUGUI) via code?

 

Ok fixed this one, still waiting for the older shaders that might work with N3DS.

 

When building, I get this error:

All script that has an implementation of TextMeshPro gives an error. However, playing in the editor just works fine.

 

@Stephan-B Yes, I need the shadow to be cast in the scene in 3D and on other objects. Is there any chance to get a working solution for my case?

 

I'm using 5.6 with the latest version of textmesh pro.

 

Thanks, it was now successfully built.

 

@Stephan_B okay, I will wait.
BTW, I'm running into another problem related to tags.
I have a text with color vertex #FFFFFF00, which is white with zeroed Alpha.
Inside the input box I put a tag with the color #FFFFFFFF (white) to the letter H.

Code (CSharp):

1. <color=#FFFFFFFF> H</color>ello

However the tag is ignored. The option Override Tags is disabled. Is this the expected behaviour?

 

Stephan, I am still waiting for the older shaders that might work with N3DS,

 

I've upgraded TextAssetPro to Unity's edition (new version) and noticed the bug.

When I'm using < font > tag with the font using the same material, an Error occured:

Code (CSharp):

1. ArgumentException: An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.
2. System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.Int32,UnityEngine.Material].Add (Int32 key, UnityEngine.Material value) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System/Array.cs:1932)
3. TMPro.MaterialReferenceManager.AddFontAssetInternal (TMPro.TMP_FontAsset fontAsset)
4. TMPro.MaterialReferenceManager.AddFontAsset (TMPro.TMP_FontAsset fontAsset)
5. TMPro.TMP_Text.ValidateHtmlTag (System.Int32[] chars, Int32 startIndex, System.Int32& endIndex)
6. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.SetArraySizes (System.Int32[] chars)
7. TMPro.TMP_Text.ParseInputText ()
8. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.OnPreRenderCanvas ()
9. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.Rebuild (CanvasUpdate update)
10. UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Extensions/guisystem/UnityEngine.UI/UI/Core/CanvasUpdateRegistry.cs:149)
11. UnityEngine.Canvas:SendWillRenderCanvases()
12.  

I remember there was the same bug in old (non-Unity) version, but I fixed it by myself with one ContainKey check. New unity version is built with dll, so I can't fix it anymore.

What can I do to prevent this error?

Thanks!

 

Oh no! It means I have to reassign these 200+ textmesh objects again?? I lost 2 days to do this.

Is it possible to replace TextMeshPro (Unity version) to original TextMeshPro without need to reassign all these GameObjects?

Another question: does your latest version support Unity 5.6.0f1 ?

 

Ok, Stephan. I've imported back your version of TMP and restored old object IDs from backup. And made some patches, so everything is ok now, except this error (which is NOT fixed yet). But now I have an ability to fix it in source code again.

I will explain in case someone have the same issue. So the error message looks like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. ArgumentException: An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary.
2. System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.Int32,UnityEngine.Material].Add (Int32 key, UnityEngine.Material value) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Collections.Generic/List.cs:596)
3. TMPro.MaterialReferenceManager.AddFontAssetInternal (TMPro.TMP_FontAsset fontAsset) (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/MaterialReferenceManager.cs:61)
4. TMPro.MaterialReferenceManager.AddFontAsset (TMPro.TMP_FontAsset fontAsset) (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/MaterialReferenceManager.cs:46)
5. TMPro.TMP_Text.ValidateHtmlTag (System.Int32[] chars, Int32 startIndex, System.Int32& endIndex) (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/TMP_Text.cs:6278)
6. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.SetArraySizes (System.Int32[] chars) (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs:1012)
7. TMPro.TMP_Text.ParseInputText () (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/TMP_Text.cs:1704)
8. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.OnPreRenderCanvas () (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/TMPro_UGUI_Private.cs:1512)
9. TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.Rebuild (CanvasUpdate update) (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Scripts/TextMeshProUGUI.cs:227)
10. UnityEngine.UI.CanvasUpdateRegistry.PerformUpdate () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Extensions/guisystem/UnityEngine.UI/UI/Core/CanvasUpdateRegistry.cs:149)
11. UnityEngine.UI.ScrollRect:LateUpdate()
12.  

Checking in MaterialReferenceManager.cs:61 I see the ContainKey check, however it's not enough.

Code (CSharp):

1.         private void AddFontAssetInternal(TMP_FontAsset fontAsset)
2.         {
3.             if (m_FontAssetReferenceLookup.ContainsKey(fontAsset.hashCode)) return;
4.  
5.             // Add reference to the font asset.
6.             m_FontAssetReferenceLookup.Add(fontAsset.hashCode, fontAsset);
7.  
8.             // Add reference to the font material.
9.             m_FontMaterialReferenceLookup.Add(fontAsset.materialHashCode, fontAsset.material);
10.         }
11.  

The problem occurs when I am trying to use <font> tag in text which switching to other fontAsset with the SAME material.

So I have added one line to your code so this piece become looks like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.         private void AddFontAssetInternal(TMP_FontAsset fontAsset)
2.         {
3.             if (m_FontAssetReferenceLookup.ContainsKey(fontAsset.hashCode)) return;
4.  
5.             // Add reference to the font asset.
6.             m_FontAssetReferenceLookup.Add(fontAsset.hashCode, fontAsset);
7.  
8. // @Added by Epsilon. Fixed <font> tag adding another fontAsset with the SAME material
9.             if (m_FontMaterialReferenceLookup.ContainsKey(fontAsset.materialHashCode)) return;
10. // end of fix
11.  
12.             // Add reference to the font material.
13.             m_FontMaterialReferenceLookup.Add(fontAsset.materialHashCode, fontAsset.material);
14.         }
15.  

I hope you will integrate this in next version of TMP.

Thanks again for your great asset!

 

Yes, I was typing in the Input Field, BUT the Rich Text was disabled. I tried to enable RTL Editor, but I got two Input Field, and one is totally messed up. Take a look at the screenshot. Also, the tag doesn't work, and for some reason the only result I get is a backward text (you can see by yourself in the screenshot).

 

About N3DS:
I found an older release of TMP Nov16.
I want to try if it works with the new N3DS but I got my text UN-aligned and I get this message each time I want to align the text.:

enum index is out of range
UnityEditor.SerializedProperty:set_enumValueIndex(Int32)
TMPro.EditorUtilities.TMPro_uiEditorPanel:OnInspectorGUI() (at Assets/TextMesh Pro/Editor/TMPro_uiEditorPanel.cs:547)
UnityEditor.DockArea:OnGUI()

 

Tried it in the N3DS but it doesnt work. Any ideas? I am stuck one week with this.

 

Does anyone know about this error when I use a drop down I get this error?

Assertion failed on expression: 'IsFinite(outDistanceForSort)'