How to get Unity to load a TTF font file? It refuses to do it.

[Dunbaratu]

Every documentation I can find on Unity seems to imply that if I wanted to load a font, I can do it by putting that font file into the Resources folder, and then running code along these lines:

    Font lblFont = (Font)Resources.Load( "LiberationMono-Regular.ttf", typeof(Font) );
    Debug.Log( "lblFont is " + (lblFont == null ? "null" : "not null") );

But every time I try that, I get "lblFont is null". I've tried with the .ttf on the filename. I've tried without the .ttf on the filename. I've tried with different font files. It just will not load the font at all, and this is an area where Unity won't throw exceptions - just return null without explaining itself as to what the problem is.

So what am I missing here? What am I doing wrong?

(I'd like to be able to have a resources folder in the mod's gamedata area, but that's a second problem I haven't gotten to yet. It won't even load it from the KSP_Data/Resources .)

Update: I have tried putting the font file in both of these locations:

$KSP_HOME/Resources

$KSP_HOME/KSP_Data/Resources

And I have tried loading it using both the name with the .ttf extension and the name without it.

None of that worked.

Edited May 18, 2014 by Steven Mading