TextMesh Pro Using TMP with Texture Packer

Is there a way to import atlas UV positional data from Texture Packer Importer (third party tool) into the TMP SpriteAsset, rather than have to type it in manually every time I make a change?

Thanks

 

Take a look at the "Window - TextMeshPro - Sprite Importer" menu.

See the following post on the TextMesh Pro user forum.

 

Wonderful! Thank you so much Stephan!

 

Follow-up question. We've noticed that whenever the SpriteAsset is recreated (for example if more glyphs are added), we lose the connection between the UI prefab that contains the TMP component, and the sprite asset. The latter then has to be reassigned to the former.

Is there a way to prevent this connection being lost?

 

When sprite assets are created through the importer, they are essentially new and have their own GUID which would be different than the previous one that was created hence why the connection is lost.

When I have time, I can take a look to see if I can make it retain the GUID when saving over the previous sprite asset.

 

That would be very useful for us!

 

Is there a way to make the TMP component ignore the case of the sprite sheet element ID?

Eg this works:
<sprite name=ui_icon_controller_xbox_a>

But these don't:
<SPRITE NAME=UI_ICON_CONTROLLER_XBOX_A>
<sprite name=UI_ICON_CONTROLLER_XBOX_A>

This is a problem for us because our localisations tool capitalises the strings in certain circumstances.

 

The name of the sprite is case sensitive so I would suggest perhaps always naming these sprites using upper case if your localization system uses that.

I would also suggest always using quotes for the name of the sprite or sprite asset. Ie. <sprite="Name of Sprite Asset" name="Name of Sprite">

The new text system will be case insensitive.

 

Thanks Stephan! We did try the ID's in uppercase, and it didn't seem to work, but we will try again.

When you mention the 'new text system', is there a new version that's being rolled out soon?

 

No ETA yet on the new text system which I am working on. So keep using TextMesh Pro and whatever updates show up until then