Move Text/3D-Text along spline

[BF-Frederic (Frédéric Hein)]

Wasn’t sure if I should open a new topic for this - but since it’s directly connected (I’ve used the same setup):
I’ve got two problems that I couldn’t yet find solutions for:

1. I’m not able to get the same results for rendering the moving text in Movie Render Queue renders as in the viewport. In the viewport, it’s rendered and animated. But as soon as I try to render it out, it’s not visible anymore. I’ve then added a “UI Renderer” setting to the MRQ, and this results in getting the text rendered, but the animation is missing = the text just stays and does not follow the spline. Any ideas what could prevent me from getting my visuals from the editor replicated in the MRQ render?

2. It seems that I can’t change the font. The default in the Blueprint “Add Text Render Component” was “RobotoDistanceField” - but if I change it to “Roboto” - there’s no text showing anymore. What am I missing to sucessfully set another font?

Edit:
After a lot of search (apparently there’s quite some people with the same problem) I found the solution for how to make it work in MRQ:

Render out Construction Script animations

BTW, I tried my setup now with ‘Event Tick’ and it works Thanks a lot again for sharing. In order to make this more usable, I added a switch (i.e. a Boole variable) that chops off the animation part of the Construction Script whenever I intend to render and instead moves it over to the Event Graph. [ConstructionScript] [EventGraph] Would be great if there was a way to automate this, i.e. if there was a function that detects whether the game is running in Construction Script…

The solution for changing the font is here:

How do I import and use custom fonts?

This is a long story… but the steps outlined below work for me at any rate. First of all, a font imported the ordinary way will in fact work fine, but not for a TextRenderActor specifically. However, if you use it in a DrawText node in the HUD blueprint, it will perform as expected. Just wanted to point that out. Anyway - to make a font for TextRenderActors, do this: Import your font as per usual, and rename it to something like “{your_font_name}DistanceField” to make it easier to tell it f…