Changing Button/Label text size?

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1

The game I'm working on is designed for 1920x1080 and automatically scales to whatever resolution you're running it at. Naturally for 1920x1080, I need a fairly big font (32 point seems to work nicely) but if someone is running at 640x480, a 32 point font is far, far too big. Now I can't possibly load a different font for every possible resolution out there, but I can't find a way to adjust text size either. This seems pretty elementary. Presumably fonts are loaded into a texture, and drawn from the texture. So there should not be any speed hit from scaling them, and I can scale everything else which is drawn from a texture, but I can't find the trick for fonts.

Surely there's a solution for this. People can't be having enormous fonts on very low resolutions, or vice versa.

2

I remember something about resizing the fonts of GUI on the 3rd person plataform tutorial's pdf here at page 55, that's achieved by using a transform matrix.

example from GameHUD.js from tutorial: 

    // Our GUI is laid out for a 1920 x 1200 pixel display (16:10 aspect). 
    //The next line makes sure it rescales nicely to other resolutions.
    GUI.matrix = Matrix4x4.TRS (Vector3(0, 0, 0), 
    Quaternion.identity, Vector3 (Screen.height / nativeVerticalResolution, 
    Screen.height / nativeVerticalResolution, 1));

Hope it helps :)

3

If you're using a GUIText object rather than OnGUI, it's trivial to use text that scales automatically, by unchecking "pixel correct" and adjusting the X and Y scale as desired.