Text Mesh Pro - The Ultimate Text Solution for Unity - Powerful & Flexible - Advanced Text Rendering

@Stephan-B oh yes, the rich text option was already enabled.
In fact, I can use tags, I tried, everything works fine, except in my case, which is very specific: I have the color vertex white with zero alpha and, in the input field, i try to change the alpha by using a tag.
However I've noticed that the opposite case works fine: I have the color vertex white (full alpha), and inside the input field I use a tag to change the color from white to white with zero alpha (see screenshot). This case works as it should, mine not. And unfortunately I need it to work properly, because my code actually change the alpha color.


I've just noticed that in the Console prints this warning:
Converting Vertex Colors from Color32 to Color.
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning(Object, Object)
TMPro.TextMeshPro:Awake()

 

Sure,

Sure, your email?

 

I have TMP in "Page" mode and I am using TMP_TextUtilities functions like FindIntersectingCharacter() and FindNearestLine().

If I invoke FindNearestLine() on any page beyond the first page, it starts the line numbering over at 0. Therefore, I cannot properly index the characterInfo array.

Here's some example code:

int lineIndex = TMP_TextUtilities.FindNearestLine(mesh, Input.mousePosition, null);
TMP_LineInfo lineInfo = mesh.textInfo.lineInfo[lineIndex];
int firstChar = lineInfo.firstCharacterIndex;
print( mesh.textInfo.characterInfo[firstChar] );

The last print statement always returns the first character of the indexed line on the first page, not the first character of the indexed line on the current page.

Does anyone know how to get around this?

Thanks,
Mark

 

Hi Stephan, thanks for your response.

Do you know whether FindIntersectingLink() works correctly in Page Mode? I am having some trouble getting it to work but it may be user error on my part.

UPDATE: I found my bug. FindIntersectingLink() DOES work in Page Mode. Thanks!

 

I have a TMP in Page Mode. Without using FindNearestLine() (since it doesn't work in Page Mode), how can I find the character index of the last character of the last line on the current page?

I've tried using FindNearestCharacter() and giving it (for a location) the bottom right corner of the TMP. However, this doesn't work if, for example, the second-to-last line is really long and the last line is really short... it will return the last character of the second-to-last line (because that character ends up being closest to the bottom right corner). (Unless the TMP were right-justified. In that case it would work. But I want mine to be left-justified)

 

Hi @Stephan_B,

I got your asset today and I'm amazed by what you created over the years. The rendering really is impressive and the options and workflow seem to exceed my wildest dreams.

I hit one error so far:

Enabling or adding a Renderer during rendering; this is not allowed. Renderer 'TMP SubMesh

Code (CSharp):

1. Enabling or adding a Renderer during rendering; this is not allowed. Renderer 'TMP SubMesh [VCR_Numbers + LiberationSans SDF Atlas]' will not be added.
2. UnityEngine.GameObject:AddComponent()
3. TMPro.TMP_SubMesh:AddSubTextObject(TextMeshPro, MaterialReference)
4. TMPro.TextMeshPro:SetArraySizes(Int32[])
5. TMPro.TMP_Text:ParseInputText()
6. TMPro.TextMeshPro:OnPreRenderObject()
7. TMPro.TextMeshPro:Rebuild(CanvasUpdate)
8. TMPro.TMP_UpdateManager:OnCameraPreRender(Camera)
9.  

I'm using Unity 5.6.0f3 with TextMeshPro 1.0.55.0b8. I did find this post of yours, but I thought with the new textmesh version this problem was solved. Am I doing something wrong?

 

Hey again,

I created a new project but was not reproduce the problem until I took a closer look at the font asset I created. I actually missed to include one character in the atlas that I wanted to print out, that's why textmesh tried to create a new material with the mixture between the old one and LiberationSans. The error might still be interesting for you, should I send you the project?

 

Fresh project, imported Text Mesh Pro version 1.0.55.52.0b5. (Paid version) and nothing else. Created a new TMP Text component.

I get all sorts of weird artifacting, and it changes as I move the text object around.
Example:



First time I've run into anything like this in TMP, any idea what's wrong?

 

Hello Stephan,

My team would like to purchase source access, so we can access the latest versions on the user forum until Unity 2017 is a bit more polished. However, from what I can tell, it is no longer available on the asset store. Is there somewhere else that "Phase I" professional with source access can be purchased?

Thanks!

 

After upgrading to 5.6 the font asset creator doesn't seem to work the same way as with 5.5.

With 5.5 i could create the perfect font asset for TMP when using custom size 15 and raster hinted.
When i try to do the same with the current version then the preview pane already looks wrong.
When i use the font later with a textmesh pro text it looks wrong in the editor preview. This all worked perfectly fine with 5.5. I am nor sure what to do now, probably have to go back to normal unit text ui.

 

Big thanks for taking a look at what i thought was an issue.

Yes but its still weird. Please take a look at the added image, when you have the time.

Ok then i have a feature request here: Could you please give me the option to "show unscaled preview"?

 

Hi want to report some bug

1. Have spritetag in text -> change mat to mobile/Distance field -> have error and all sprite will gone
2. When I create chinese fontasset , underline is not working.

 

The wrong rendering happens when i leave everything to default when starting the font asset creation dialog. I just add the font.

After writting with you here i got some ideas how to use your plugin. I didn't understand what the preview showed me and stuff. I changed the font a bit, because i had to add ÄÖÜäöü to it and then noticed the font is now size 16. then i added a padding of 4 and changed the size to 256x256. The font now looks very good in font asset creator preview, "editor view" and unity "game view". So i am satisfied. I added the new font and a screenshot of it for you, if you want to check it out.

Thank you for the great support you give people!

I have one last question: What do i really need from your asset package when i only want to use it. See screenshot.

 

I'm currently replacing the normal text components in my UI with this asset and I'm getting these errors a lot:

Code (csharp):

1. NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
2. TMPro.EditorUtilities.TMP_UiEditorPanel.GetMaterialPresets ()
3. TMPro.EditorUtilities.TMP_UiEditorPanel.OnInspectorGUI ()
4. UnityEditor.InspectorWindow.DrawEditor (UnityEditor.Editor editor, Int32 editorIndex, Boolean rebuildOptimizedGUIBlock, System.Boolean& showImportedObjectBarNext, UnityEngine.Rect& importedObjectBarRect) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Inspector/InspectorWindow.cs:1227)
5. UnityEditor.ContainerWindow:InternalCloseWindow()

If I add a TextMeshPro - Text (UI) component to a game object and then choose a font asset this error appears almost all the time and all the font settings disappear. Reimporting TextMeshPro or restarting the Editor fixes the current error and I can change the font settings again, but the same error often appears the next time I do the same.

Quite irritating to say the least.

Edit: And alignment isn't saved. If I set the text to be centered both vertically and horizontally on my prefab when I start my scene it's aligned top left. If I disable/enable the component it's center aligned properly, but surely I can't be meant to do that all the time?

 

I was just able to reproduce it in a new project. I just went through the motions doing the same stuff and suddenly it happened, but I can't say for sure what triggered it.

I have one custom font that I created a font asset from and then I removed a few old text components and added textmesh components instead and when I selected my new font asset I got the error again. It also seems like adding a new component someplace else fixes the error on the original object without me having to reimport or restart.

I'm able to reproduce the alignment issue as well in a new project.

In my current project I have my UI in a separate scene where I edit it, then I duplicate it and assign the duplicate to my prefab and then delete it. That way I can use prefabs for sliders, buttons, toggles etc. without losing them when I prefab the entire UI. It seems like duplicating the UI causes the textmesh pro components to reset their text alignment so anything that was center or right aligned is now left aligned.

I'm sorry to say, but I don't have the patience to debug this. I do enough of that at work. This is supposed to be my happy time so I'm just going to go back to the normal UI components for now. I will check it out again when a new update is released or whatnot. Or if you know it's because of my Unity version or something just let me know. I'm using Unity 5.5.2f1 and the latest version of TMP you can get from the Asset Store.

For what it's worth I'm attaching the project where I was able to reproduce both problems. The forum wouldn't allow me to upload the file so hopefully this works:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/766368/TMP-alignment-bug-and-nullreference.zip

 

Update: The alignment is broken when the Library is rebuilt as well so it should be immediately apparent something isn't working properly there. Duplicating the canvas also breaks it like I mentioned.

Also, I'm able to reliably trigger the error by adding a new button to my UI, turning that into a prefab, selecting the prefab (so that I'm editing the prefab in my project folder and not an instance), removing the text component from the prefab, adding a TMP text component instead and selecting my font. This breaks it 100% of the time.

The custom font is in the repro project in case there's something wrong with it. It's the only thing apart from the Unity version and the TMP version that's constant between the projects. I think it's from Google fonts so it shouldn't be a problem to share it.

I thought this asset was safe to use after having seen it around for so long that I started deleting everything and replacing it with TMP components, now I'm screwed. Well, not really, but it's a lot of free time wasted. Hopefully you'll figure something out. I'll leave this alone for the time being and work on other things instead.

Update 2: Both bugs/errors happen in 5.6.0f3 as well.

 

Haha, yay, so special. I said I wouldn't be dragged into this, but seeing as you're so responsive and helpful I'll try to be as well.

Attached is a gif showing how to reproduce it in a brand new project. I even deleted the TMP asset and redownloaded it to make sure nothing was wrong with the one I had.

The steps to reproduce the error are:

1. Create a button.
2. Make the button into a prefab.
3. Edit the prefab in the project folder and remove the text component on it.
4. Add a TMP component instead.
5. Choose a font asset.
6. Error.

You're able to reproduce the alignment issue? It's just as easily reproduceable for me, and it's much worse because I can work around the other issue, but I can't work around this issue. Maybe I can write a script that tries to refresh all the components at scene load or something.

Attached is a gif showing this issue as well.

The steps to reproduce the alignment issue are:

1. Create a button.
2. Make the button into a prefab.
3. Edit the prefab in the project folder and remove the text component on it.
4. Add a TMP component instead.
5. Center the text on the TMP component.
6. Duplicate the button in your hierarhcy.
7. The copy will have the wrong text alignment.

And of course the alignment issue happens everywhere, the button has nothing to do it as that's not related to TMP, I just used it as an example because I have a lot of buttons in my UI.

 

Just updated to 5.6, running into errors with TMP. Where do I get the latest beta version?

 

Haha, my alternative workflow. I thought it was basically the de facto standard workflow in Unity to make sure you were always editing the source prefab and not accidentally overwriting it with unwanted changes from one of the instances. But either way, great work.

I wasn't actually able to work around the alignment issue and had to resort to setting alignment through script at runtime. I will double check after work to see if I'm experiencing a third issue, different from the two you know of already. But in all cases my issues stemmed from trying to replace existing text components with TMP components on existing prefabs or turning objects into prefabs, so I'm guessing those two issues are the issues I'm suffering from.

The rest of the package seems great so far though. Razor sharp text and a lot more options than with the default UI.

 

I wonder if it's possible to strike-though an icon from a sprite asset with the line before the icon.
the following text results in a strike-though horizontal line before the text but unfortunately behind the sprite icon...
<s>New Text <sprite name=[FoodTextIcon]></s>

 

I didn't see this update. This fixed it for me. Thanks again for the incredible support.

 

Hi Stephan_B,

I bought a copy of TMP for a project I worked on a few months ago, and now we're looking to upgrade to Unity 5.6, but the latest version of TMP is incompatible with the paid-for version, I've signed up to the TMP forums to get access to the other build but I've not had an email about admin approval yet (been 2 weeks) is there anything we can do to get access to that build as we really need it to put out an update.

Cheers

 

Just want to mention some weird functionality that can be pretty frustrating when trying to go through the object hierarchy and swap over to textmesh pro.

Regardless of where in the hierarchy I have selected, if I select GameObject from the menu, UI, TextMesh Pro - Text. It will always default to placing the new text object in the bottom most canvas in my project.

I uploaded two images to show what i mean.

 

Another bug I am seeing is when copying then pasting a TextMesh Pro text object, it will change various values of the rect transform.

For example, the scale of x, y, and z will suddenly go from 1 to 1.000004
Position x will go from 0 to -3.051758e-05

Also dragging a TextMesh Pro Text object from one canvas to another will suddenly change the scale. The two Canvas's both have a scale of 1 but the text object will go from 1 to 2.600452 suddenly.

Images attached for reference.

 

One more I found as well. After making any adjustment to the underlay setting on a TextMesh Pro Text object, then saving the scene, every TextMesh Pro Text object using that same font in the scene will suddenly become a solid block of whatever colour was selected for it.
The only way to fix it, is to go into each individual text object and type in the text field to make it refresh the rendering.

See attached images for reference.

I'm using Unity 5.5.0f3 in all of these cases.

 

The first one is just how Unity does it. It's rounding errors on the values. They are all effectively 0 or 1, but sometimes they show up like that, it doesn't affect anything, or at least it shouldn't.

As for the last one I don't believe you to be honest. I believe you have a game object with 1 / 2.600452 scale above the TMP object and thus when you drag the TMP object in there it has to account for that and set it's scale to 2.600452 to keep the same scale according to the world.

 

Hello,

I'm getting an error from Text mesh pro on my release build, I don't know if it's breaking things but it's my #1 error on crashlytics. I used to have all Text elements unity native and this started happening after I switched most of them to text mesh pro.

https://puu.sh/vwz8e/29bb264197.png

Any ideas?

 

It's probably happening on texts that get modified from scripts (just their text property, not colors or anything else).

It did also happen once or twice in the editor, I wasn't even on playmode, I was just typing the label onto the text box and it showed up in the console.

I don't know how to reproduce nor fix this issue, if I find out I'll let you know. Any advice in the meantime?

Thanks!

 

Hi everyone,
I hope I'm not repeating any already-fixed-issue (34 pages are a lot to read ).

I'm using Unity 5.6.0f3 and the last (and free) version of Textmesh Pro, that I downloaded from the Asset Store.
Since I was experiencing issues with click on buttons, I reduced my scene to a screen space canvas and a button.
I noticed that, if my button has a TextMeshPro Text as child (I did not modify any field of this object), the click on the button will happen also outside the button box. If I remove the TextMeshPro Text and introduce a simple UI Button, this behaviour won't happen.

Thanks in advance for any suggestion

 

Unity 2017.1 Beta 2 is out and Text Mesh Pro is still not built-in. In which beta can we expect to have it?