Converting an image to True Type Font or other Unity Font

Unity Engine
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Hey,

I need help.

I have a font sheet that I created as a PNG image file. Need to convert it to a font format that is usable by unity (such as Truetype)

Photoshop/Illustrator wont’ do it, neither will irfanview.

Trying cygwin/font forge but it’s painful to use for just one file…

Any ideas on how to do this?

2

You can leave it as a PNG, and set up a custom font in Unity. Although it’s kind of a pain since you have to set the kerning for each character manually.

–Eric

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I’m doing the same thing with a PNG file as well.

I would like to set the width of each character in my custom font, is it possible?

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Yes, adjust the per-character kerning.

–Eric

5

The problem is that my texture font numbers have different width and does not contain all characters.

For example, my font has 12 characters “, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 x “. I would like to store them in a texture without any “blank space”. So if I set the per-character kerning to 0 for each char between “, and 0” as well as those between “9 and x”. When Unity import those 12 characters how will it map the three characters between “,” and “0”? (”,” ASCII number is 44 and “0” is 48)

I’m concerned about the fact that he could map “0” with my number “3” texture because even if I set kerning 0 to each char between “,” and “0”, it might still pick a fixed-width character in my texture to represent them. Thus, it’s why I need a property for setting the width of each character that are represented in my texture, do we have access to that?

(Hope I was clear enough, my English skill is far from perfect)

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The issue right now is that the Kerning affects the position of the next character, but is not affecting the width of the current one.
In a TTF font or optimized sprite image the width of the W character is not the same width as the | character. So there should be a character width property in addition to the kerning that can be modified. But we can’t seem to find it.

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I finally contacted some people inside Unity and they told me it is not (currently) possible to do this. So at least I suggested it on the feedback website. Please support me if you’re agree! Thanks.

There is the link : http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/15792-unity/suggestions/1101567-custom-font-give-access-to-each-char-property