How can i add text outline in unity over a text UI object?
I want to do it in the designer/editor view. i cant see to find any useful topic and i also cant see how to add it from the designer view.
My project is 2d and i'm using the latest unity version 5.3. I want to achieve similar effect.
Or. Alternatively to Joe's answer. To simply add a outline effect to a normal .ttf font :
Click on the text object from the Hierarchy
Click the Add Component button in the inspector
Type "outline" in the search bar.
Add the outline component.
Note! This explains how to make custom type ("sprite sheet type") in Unity.
Before reading it, check Uri's & Programmer's answer which explains using the handy new "outline" feature in .UI ! It may well be enough!
Unity does not have any fancy type handling at all.
You can drop in "normal" .ttf fonts,
or, you can drop in "image fonts", called custom fonts by Unity, where you literally make each letter on a sprite sheet.
A font sprite sheet looks something like this:
Here's exactly how to do it ...
(1) you have to use GlyphDesigner (or any similar product) to actually make your custom font sheet. Find the product you like for your Mac or PC to do this.
(2) There is a critical trick.
Unity completely forgot to include a type matcher for custom fonts. (They may fix this in Unity 6.) It's one of the stupidest things in Unity. So, fortunately there is a free and perfect script
BitmapFontImporter.cs
https://github.com/BenoitFreslon/BitmapFontImporter
There's a full and long tutorial link at that page.
You have to include that to make custom fonts work. It's just one of those weird things about Unity.
So in short, firstly you have to literally "draw" such custom fonts, letter by letter. In fact you need to use something like GlyphDesigner to do that.
Secondly in Unity you have to use the extremely handy script mentioned above or it won't work. Enjoy!
http://answers.unity3d.com/answers/1105527/view.html
TextMesh Pro from the Asset Store does the job and it can be imported for free.
This gives plenty of possibilities fort texts, including how thick the outline should be.
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I just deleted the TextMeshPro package and I don't know where to create a simple UI text now.
It doesn't show it for me anymore.
I assume that you are talking about TextMeshPro?
Usually if you right click in the hierarchy, you will find stuff as text elements under UI. If you have TextMeshPro installed you still can find regular Button, Text, Input etc. elements under UI > Legacy.
I'd like to add custom markers with text labels on my map. I can use MapViewPins for this, but they "tremble" when map is being moved. Even one MapViewPin behaves like this in official Here example, so it is probably not an optimization issue.
When i load PNG image and use it as a MapMarker, it works perfectly. But i don't know how to add text to a marker.
I am using Here SDK for Flutter (Navigate Edition) 4.12.4.0 with Flutter 3.3.2
GIF below is an example. Cyan circles are MapMarkers, markers with icons and label are MapViewPins. Is there any solution to this problem?
Unfortunately, the MapViewPins, being widgets embedded in the MapView surface, need to be relocated to the fixed coordinates every time the map is interacted with by gestures, which is why you notice this "strange" behavior.
However, what you mention about using MapMarkers would be the best solution but in this case instead of using PNG files, you could use SVG files in which you enter the text you want to display.
There is currently no other way available to do what you mention using the HERE SDK (Navigate Edition).
Here is a link to our most up-to-date HERE SDK (Navigate Edition) documentation: https://developer.here.com/documentation/flutter-sdk-navigate/dev_guide/index.html
I'm currently learning how to create UI in Unity and when I want to add Text to the Canvas I right click it in Hierarchy, go to UI, and there is supposed to be "Text" option, but for some reason i can only see "Text - Text mesh pro". Maybe it's just new feature so they are combined now in one button, because I'm just learning what exactly is Text mesh pro, but is it supposed to be like this or my "Text" button is missing for some reason?
TextMesh Pro was a package that unity included. It is an improvement so it is recommended to use it.
Here you can read more:
https://blog.unity.com/games/textmesh-pro-joins-unity
I've been trying to make a project that creates Flash Cards , and i wanted to make the user be able to input any text on either sides of the card , the problem I'm facing now is that since the textbox(from TextMeshPro or regular one) has certain font whenever I try to input another languages like Japanese or Arabic it simply shows as squares, I tried the suggestion to use the textmesh pro dynamic font feature but still with no luck.
my question is , is there any way to do what I'm asking for without using fallback assets for every single language?
are there any unity plugins that do the job?
Like I said the aim is to make a textbox that displays whatever language is put in it.
any tips would be appreciated
NOTE: the solution doesn't need to use textmeshpro , it can use standard text component or any other custom ones.
I think the problem is the font. You will need a font that supports all the characters.
Perhaps you could use different fonts for different languages.
TextMeshPro creates a texture from the fonts characters. This texture will get very large if you have a lot of characters (e.g. for chinese). Because of that, the standard Text-component should be easier to work with.
(But I don't exactly know how the dynamic font feature of TextMeshPro works.)
So Since this is the first time I've worked with Fonts it appears that I didn't quite understand how fonts work and now I found the right way to approach the problem so I will give here the steps that I used to solve the multi-language issue:
1)you need a Font that supports as many languages as possible i found out that "Ariel Unicode" fits this need quite well with support to most common used languages support
2)you need to create a TextMeshPro Dynamic font asset that uses the font chosen in step one. (I tried using TextMeshPro Dynamic font before but i was mistakenly under the impression that the dynamic feature "search" for a font that has a certain character rather than we need to supply the font and it searches within the font for a character, that was a bit of a stupid assumption at my part created from the fact that I didn't understand how fonts work) .Here is a link how to use Dynamic SDF textmeshPro
I hope this helps someone with this process.
I need to highlight text in epub book,when user selects the text,i can get the text,what the user has selected,but i need to highlight,the text permanently what user selected,thanks,any help will ne appreciated.
There's nothing built in to iOS that will do this. Some broad techniques that might work:
If you're showing the book in a web view, you might be able to wrap that area in a span and style it to create a highlight.
If you're using Core Text, you could draw the highlight in directly, either before or after drawing the text. (Your choice will decide how the highlight affects non-black text.)
You could add a transparent view over the text that draws in the highlight.
As for adding highlight-related items to the selection menu, see this Stack Overflow post. You probably won't be able to get icons in the menu like Apple does, though; that seems to be a private API. You could probably override the whole menu system if you want something closer to Apple's look, but that'll be quite a bit of work.