Can you use a TextMeshPro in an Entity?

Ramcat · August 7, 2024, 2:19am

DreamingImLatios · August 7, 2024, 5:21pm

A couple of options you might be interested in:

Dreaming381/Latios-Framework-Documentation/blob/main/Calligraphics/README.md

# Calligraphics

*Written by Sovogal – Edited by DreamingImLatios*

Calligraphics is a small module that leverages the Kinemation backend rendering
systems, Unity’s Shader Graph, and a little bit of pixie dust to render
world-space text in a similar manner to TextMesh Pro.

Check out the [Getting Started](Getting%20Started.md) page!

## Features

### Out-of-the-Box

Calligraphics can parse Unity-supported [Rich
Text](https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/StyledText.html)
tags with rendering support for a subset of those. What Calligraphics supports,
it will render, and what it does not, it will ignore, so you can port existing
Rich Text without concern that you'll expose any unseemly alligator brackets to
your players.

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Ramcat · September 4, 2024, 3:19am

Thanks for that. I have done a test and can move my GameObject turned Entity with a JOB. That’s great. How do you get access to the TextRender’s Text property from code? And I presume you can’t in Burst compiled code?

DreamingImLatios · September 4, 2024, 3:30am

I’ll speak for Calligraphics. There is a TextRendererAspect which has a text property which gives you a CalliString. This is a mutable structure backed by a DynamicBuffer. You can use a bunch of the Collections package extension methods to append characters, numbers, and other fixed string instances to it.

Additionally, you can construct the CalliString directly from a DynamicBuffer.

You totally can, though sometimes Burst can get tripped up by usages of sting literals in certain places.