Uncap/increase the font size limit of 100

[buildthomas]

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TextSize and TextBounds

I’m super grateful for TextSize but I have a 1440p monitor (and some have even higher). 100 limit on TextSize is very small. Can we please have it increased to like 1000? TextBounds is still broken. It’s a feature I’m delaying my new GUI rework for. Basically if you enable .TextScaled the .TextBounds doesn’t update, it remains on whatever .FontSize you’ve had it at before. Ideal behavior is it picks up on .TextSize/.FontSize changes and works as it used to. I think it was @spotco who did the n…

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@zeuxcg

I don’t think we’d make TextSize limit bigger with current font rendering technology. We have an atlas that has a finite size and have to rasterize a precisely sized glyph into that. On mobile (iOS) we increase the size 2x to match the pixel density perfectly. This means one glyph with size 1000 is basically 4 Mb of data (2k x 2k, single channel - ballpark). This will take ages to rasterize and consume the entire atlas.

We may switch to an alternate technology at some point, based on distance fields, that’d make glyph rasters more reusable (scalable in both “scale the size” and also “memory/perf consumption scales” way) - but with what we have today size has a cost, and we can’t just unlock the values.