How do I consistently scale text sizes?

marfit · February 24, 2019, 5:38pm

I am definitely no UI designer, but I have managed to accomplish making my GUI frames and whatnot consistent using the scale instead of the pixel part of UDIM2. Now, the next problem is tackling the problem that is my text consistently getting too big for the screen when the screen gets smaller. How do I stop this?

RuizuKun_Dev · February 24, 2019, 5:45pm

There’s a TextScaled property

and

GetTextSize

You’ll need to do some math for this one.

marfit · February 24, 2019, 6:02pm

I’m not sure I understand.

uJordy · February 24, 2019, 6:08pm

What do you not understand exactly?

marfit · February 24, 2019, 6:12pm

The kind of math I’m going to do, and how the property and function are going to be useful for me.

uJordy · February 24, 2019, 6:15pm

Does TextScaled not work for you?

marfit · February 24, 2019, 6:19pm

Yes. TextScaled is out of the equation here.

ObscureBrandon · February 24, 2019, 6:43pm

From what am aware of it does not get bigger on reducing the resolution. You can use the TextWrapped Property to prevent Text from going out of the Text box on reducing the resolution/typing a lot of text inside the text box.

marfit · February 24, 2019, 6:51pm

Top left is 1080, top right is 720, bottom left is 480.

uJordy · February 24, 2019, 6:52pm

Don’t know why TextScaled wouldn’t work? Do you have TextSizeConstraints in your UI object?

Alexander_Ashford · February 24, 2019, 7:00pm

For basics make sure text is scaled and text is wrapped, people often forget to wrap text.

RuizuKun_Dev · February 24, 2019, 7:06pm

GetTextSize

returns Vector2 in AbsoluteSize (Pixels), you would have to do some math for the container so it’s size can be scaled.