Very interesting update; going to make adding these cool characters to existing text much easier.
Reiterating the first reply, are there any docs you guys have planned for this?
Also, my only slight concern would be that it’s a little weird to have formatting errors as an entire property of the TextLabel/Box. How about it’s changed to red output in the console instead (as is the case right now when you enter an invalid property into a field in the Properties tab)?
Edit: Actually, this could make it hard to detect formatting errors. Maybe leave as is; just a thought
Good update! Would be great if there was an improved text editor in the properties window for long strings. Currently its very difficult to edit a long string with any rich text in the properties window so I end up writing it in a script or something then copy pasting it into the property
Also, doing Shift + Enter should create a newline, and unicode characters should render correctly when entered in manually via the Text property. We shouldn’t need to use a script for this.
fyi, you can write enters and special characters into smth like notepad or any textwindow, copy and paste them into the text property and they will appear without need for scripts
This is definitely a cool extension to the otf format, given its just been sitting there, i wonder why other headers haven’t been supported yet, but zero and ss03 alone is cool!
I’m gonna have to do more research on this since I don’t understand anything at all. Two fonts in one? Also, as said above, implement custom fonts. Not combined ones.
This is a really nice qol thing for now instead of boring plain 0’s we can now put a strike through them, allowing for more variety and possible one step closer to something like being able to upload our own fonts (though that idea may be a little silly I guess)
you dont need a script for this I believe you can already do \n to make new lines, however I can see the need for shift + enter as it makes things a lot neater
custom fonts can already be achieved by image abuse, there’s a hacky way for this typa thing (however I can understand the need for this to be a base roblox thing), if you’re interested, heres what im talking about!
Using spritesheets have a few technical issues that aren’t immediately obvious.
The most notable is that both ttf and otf have lots of data dedicated to rendering text at small sizes, because png isn’t a vector format unlike most font formats, it starts to look really blurry the smaller it gets.
How do you handle UTF-8, thats a lot of characters you’d have to account for, even if you just do the first 127 bytes of ASCII, that’s still a lot of regional characters that are missing.
As well as that, Roblox is pretty trigger happy with spritesheets if you’re not careful.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us be able to make a monospaced font, i’ve had to implement my own monospaced text label since a timer didn’t really look good but i’m worried that it’ll have performance implications since it’s really a bunch of textlabels stuck together
Apologies if this is late, but I wonder if there is or will be a way to disable OpenType features for certain fonts that have them enabled by default, like ligatures and whatnot?
Hi @Bry10022 , the short answer is yes and no. The openType features prop is currently per GuiText object, rather than per Font. So you can disable ligatures(which we whitelisted recently, along with calt short for “Contextual Alternates”) for certain GuiText objects by setting the OpenTypeFeatures to liga 0 or liga off if the feature is supported by the font.
Hi @Berge99075 , ss02 is not yet supported to be enabled or disabled the opentype features property yet. The only features we support for modification are ss03zeroligacalt.
