Custom Fonts for plugins

[NavyFish]

Does anyone know how to load custom fonts in a plugin? I'm having trouble getting Unity to locate my *.ttf file.

[Trueborn]

You could always do it the old fashioned way and build a font texture and use DrawTextureWithCoords... Other than that I'm not sure. Maybe look at some Unity stuff to see if it supports ttf

[NavyFish]

Thanks, I had considered that approach, but I know for a fact unity supports true type font loading. The problem is that it seems like they can only be loaded using the UnityEngine.Resources class, and our plugin directories don't seem to be traversed by that loader.

I could read the files in as a byte stream using KSP.IO, but unity's font class doesn't have a constructor that will read those bytes. I could look into subclassing their font class and building a custom ttf loader, but needless to say that could be quite intensive.

If I can somehow get the unity Resources class to look inside the gamedata directory, it would be problem solved. Any thoughts?

Documentation: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Resources.html

[Tigrou]

Here is a very tricky problem...

I'm trying myself to use a specific font, so I had a look on KOs code to see how Nivekk implemented his C64-like font.

He uses a png file from where characters are extracted.

https://github.com/Nivekk/KOS/blob/master/TermWindow.cs

Cause I only need digits, an other way consists of arrays of png files. Look at this tip :

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/37277/Custom-score-texture.html

I'll try this last one.