Resolved uGUI/TextMeshPro: please provide a proper way to make textshadow/glow

Hi Sengaya! I am a developer from the Text Team.

Offset and size are not relative to text size: Could you elaborate on this point? TMP's material properties are relative to the font size of the TextComponent. This is convenient as changing the font size preserves the looks of your material properties.

Settings of feather and opacity are very restricted: Same here, could you elaborate or share a screenshot of this issue you are experiencing?

You can see artifacts around the letters: TMP has various configurations depending on your needs. From text that needs to be rendered super fast to a huge title that needs to be as crisp as possible. Can you send a screenshot of what you see ?

For a title that needs to be extra crisp, here are my recommendations:
- Use a static font asset and create it through the FontCreator.
- Only include the characters that are needed for your title as the atlas will be large
- Increase the sampling point size.
- Keep in mind that your sampling to padding ratio should stay 1:10.
- Once all settings are fine, you can play around with the different Rendering Modes. SDFAA is the fastest, but also the less precise. SDF32 is extremely slow to rasterize, but it gives the best result. Perfect for a game title.

By the way we are in the process of writing documentation for all of the above

 

Super interesting, I wasn't aware of this asset.

You can achieve bigger text effects with TMP by increasing your sampling to padding ratio. By default, we recommend 1:10, but if you need larger effects (shadow, outline...) you'll need to increase the padding. Here's what I achieved with a ratio of 1:20 and to be honest I still had a lot of room for bigger effects.

I do want to point out that we have a few limitations as of now. For instance, when the text effect colour is different than the text colour, it can cause the effect to overlap text if the effect is big enough.