How to write text to a Texture2D?

[linuxgurugamer]

A bit stumped here.  I need to be able to write some text to a Texture2D object (it's a graph, i want to put some text into the graph)

I haven't found anything useful as yet (still looking), but was wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

What would be really neat is if I'd be able to write the text in a curve (ie:  around the circumference of a circle)

Thanks in advance

[Fengist]

On 8/22/2018 at 8:19 AM, linuxgurugamer said:

A bit stumped here.  I need to be able to write some text to a Texture2D object (it's a graph, i want to put some text into the graph)

I haven't found anything useful as yet (still looking), but was wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

What would be really neat is if I'd be able to write the text in a curve (ie:  around the circumference of a circle)

Thanks in advance

I can't help you with curved text but I can give you a solution for straight text.  Have you considered putting a textmesh pro over top of it, much like what I do with my idiot lights?  They're completely transparent and you can select different sizes/fonts and change the text at runtime.

The only other solution that I can think of, if this is a UI element, just put the text in the UI and change that at runtime.  You could move the transform around a bit in the UI at runtime if placement is an issue.

Otherwise, you're going to get into manipulating bitmaps, canvases, brushes and fonts.

Edited August 26, 2018 by Fengist

[linuxgurugamer]

2 hours ago, Fengist said:

I can't help you with curved text but I can give you a solution for straight text.  Have you considered putting a textmesh pro over top of it, much like what I do with my idiot lights?  They're completely transparent and you can select different sizes/fonts and change the text at runtime.

The only other solution that I can think of, if this is a UI element, just put the text in the UI and change that at runtime.  You could move the transform around a bit in the UI at runtime if placement is an issue.

Otherwise, you're going to get into manipulating bitmaps, canvases, brushes and fonts.

I'll look into that, but if it isn't curved, it isn't really useful.  I've solved it for now by using colors intelligently.

Thanks