So I’m trying to create a 3d text object. I have a custom font. The Text Render object doesn’t load any text in the font at all when I go to switch it. I have been researching this for hours and nothing has worked.
You need to make a font material. Here’s how:
- Import your font. Double click it to go to its editor.
- Change Font Cache Type to Offline.
- Expand Import Options, and set Height to 20, or whatever makes this happen: In the image, you want the row with the letter Z to be at the bottom of the first image square. Usually you’ll have extra symbols spilling into a second image. If you need those symbols, make a another font file with only those symbols, import it, and follow these instructions.
- Scroll down to check Use Distance Field Alpha
- Save. Under Asset, click Reimport. Save.
- Create a new material.
- Right click and create a FontSampleParameter node. Click it to see its details. Chose your font for Font.
- Create a LinearInterpolate node. Click to go to details. Set Const A to -90 and Const B to 90.
- Plug the top pin from your Font node into the Alpha of the Lerp node.
- Click the main node, the big guy with all the inputs, to go to its details. Set Blend Mode to Masked.
- Plug the result of your Lerp into Opacity Mask of the main node.
- Plug anything you want into Base Color of the main node. You can use a Constant3Vector for a simple color.
Now that you’ve done that, implementing it into a TextRender actor is easy.
- Go the details of the TextRender actor.
- Set Text Material to your new material.
- Set Font to the same font you used for your material.
Keep in mind that the very first step I mentioned, changing Font Cache Type to Offline, will make it so your font cannot be selected in UMG. You can make a duplicate of your font and set the Font Cache Type to Runtime to use it in UMG.
For ease of organization, I like to name one Font_render and the other Font_UMG.
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That worked! Thank you! Now I just need to edit the font because it’s cutting off some characters. Still thanks!
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“Plug the top pin from your Font node into the Alpha of the Lerp node.” ← this gives me an error saying “Coercion failed”
I can put in any of the individual channels (RGB) but not the top pin into the alpha of the lerp node. help me please?
EDIT: I think you meant the bottom pin- the alpha of the font to the alpha of the lerp? but my letters are getting chopped up…
for anyone having the same problem: the reason the top pin can’t go through the lerp into the mask is that the mask wants a float and the top pin is a float3. So i added the red to the green and the result of that to the blue and just used that as the mask.