FontMeshGen - MSDF Text Atlaser

FontMeshGen allows you to build high quality MSDF text, complete with a wide range of styles and features, including blurred outlines, multiple fonts, italics, 3d transformations, billboard and backface flip, and lineart.

This is an early pre-release, and minimal documentation is present, but an example scene is included. **PLEASE READ THE INCLUDED README FILE!!!** Access the tool from Tools->Lyuma->FontMeshGen in the menu bar.

To generate new font atlases, or access non-ASCII letters (such as Hiragana or Kanji), you *must* also download my fork of Merlin's Unity-MSDF-Atlas tool from https://github.com/lyuma/Unity-MSDF-Fonts

Requires Unity 2018.4 or Higher.

While it's nothing like fully functional HTML and CSS, this includes a markup language with many more fun features than what you would find in Unity Text or TextMeshPro.

List of supported tags

** Per-letter settings

- <color=HTMLCOLOR>

(Set a color in unity format: red, white, #ccccffff, etc.)

(Please include an alpha component (8 letter hexcode))

- <colgrad=HTMLCOLOR>

(Color gradient: per-letter gradient, sets color= to this after the next character.)

- <shadow=HTMLCOLOR>

(Background shadow/glow around text)

- </shadow>

(Clear shadow, same as <shadow=#00000000> with 0 alpha.)

- <space=FLOAT>

(Scale size of space character)

- <size=FLOAT>

(Scale size of text or image)

- <blur=FLOAT>

(Create blurred text like shadow (1), normal (0) or extra sharp (-0.5))

- <lineheight=FLOAT>

(Line height multiplier, affects the next line)

- <stretch=FLOAT>

(Stretch text vertically, like size only on y axis)

- <fatten=FLOAT>

(Stretch text horizontally, like size only on x axis)

- <corrupt=FLOAT>

(Stretch one triangle in each quad, producing funny text)

- <extra=FLOAT>

(Activate custom shader feature, for example, float up and down slowly)

- <italic=FLOAT>

(Skew text by amount given: -0.25 = oblique, 0 = normal, 0.25 = italic, 1 = ??)

- <i>, </i>

(Same as italic=0.25 and italic=0)

- <thick=>

(Set letter thickness: 0=extremely thin, 0.5=normal, 1.0=bold)

- <b>, </b>

(Same as thick=1.0 and thick=0.5)

- <sep>, </sep>

(Broken: Please use fatten= instead, combined with _ for nice separators)

** Per-character positioning:

- <center>

- <left>

- <right>

- <align=FLOAT>

(Align text left (0) or right (1))

- <x=FLOAT>, <y=FLOAT> <z=FLOAT>

(Set the current x, y or z position of the text cursor, relative to the node.)

- <x=+FLOAT>, <y=+FLOAT> <z=+FLOAT>

(Set the current x, y or z position of the text cursor, relative to the previous value.)

- <angle=FLOAT>

(Set the angle of the text, relative to the node.)

- <anglexlate=FLOAT,X,Y,Z>

(Reset the angle and position of the cursor, relative to the node)

- <advangle=FLOAT>

(Set the angle of the cursor, affecting newly written characters.)

** Per-node commands:

- <parent=NAME>, </parent>

(Create a new game object to hold everything inside. No nesting!)

- <translate=X,Y,Z>

(Translate the game object.)

- <rotate=X,Y,Z>

(Rotate the game object in euler degrees.)

- <scale=X,Y,Z>

(Scale the game object.)

- <distancefade=FLOAT>

(Fade this object away as the user reaches this distance from the text on X/Z, ignoring Y.)

- <billboard>, </billboard>

(Billboard the current node towards the player camera)

- <doubleside>, </doubleside>

(Text will be correctly flipped from both sides.)

- <img=X1,Y1,X2,Y2>

(Reference an image from the Alternate Graphics slot in the material)

(X1,Y1 is bottom left; X2,Y2 is top right).

(The image will be scaled according to <size=>, <stretch=> and <fatten=> commands.)

- <blockimg=X1,Y1,X2,Y2>

(Like <image=> but the image will be centered on the cursor, instead of appended.)