TMPro, Locate Letter, World Pos

Hi there,
I am using TMPro, and was hoping to locate the World Position of any letter, in the text of a TextMeshPro.


I have been looking around but it is not entirely clear.

Thank you

 

I'm going to guess such a feature is not exposed.

EDIT: I stand corrected. See @Brathnann 's post below!

However, you can look for yourself because TMPro is installed as source code.

Put up a text field, attach the debugger and set some breakpoints in TMPro, press play and start trying to track down where the mesh is formed for the glyphs that make up the text field.

If you find it, see if there is any API to get it. I'm not aware of any.

It might be possible to make some tweaks to TMPro (you would have to break and pin the package to your project) to get a simple functionality like this.

 

It's been awhile since I've had to do this, but look into the TMP Textutilities

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.3/api/TMPro.TMP_TextUtilities.html

Otherwise, you can access information through the TextInfo class
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.3/api/TMPro.TMP_TextInfo.html

You'll need to grab the textinfo from the TextMeshProUGui and then you can get down to the character info. This is actually how I've done it in the past.

 

Thanks, I will go over... quick question tho... I was hoping to access a Texture, that TMPro would be accessing for its Font Atlas, however I can not see one.... would you know if there is a Texture, one could potentially access?

Thank you

 

Intellisense shows an atlas and atlasTexture option. So perhaps one of those.

 

For everyone finding this, here is an easy to implement way:
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1336562/textmesh-pro-characterinfo-coordinates.html