Text render disappear after changing the font

[SpaceAce_717]

Hello!

I have an actor with a text render component, If I change the font from Roboto, the text render just disappear. The problem is not the font since I used it in other widgets and it works.
I wondering what’s the issue here and how I can fix it.

Thanks in advance to whoever is gonna answer!

[PresumptivePanda]

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[Tsura-janai]

• Change Font Cache Type to Offline is the solution
  
  

[Tsura-janai]

TextRender doesn't load font correctly.

You need to make a font material. Here’s how: Import your font. Double click it to go to its editor. Change Font Cache Type to Offline. Expand Import Options, and set Height to 20, or whatever makes this happen: In the image, you want the row with the letter Z to be at the bottom of the first image square. Usually you’ll have extra symbols spilling into a second image. If you need those symbols, make a another font file with only those symbols, import it, and follow these instructions. Scroll …

[pandathathasagun]

It will not let me read the whole thing how do I fix?

[Husky211]

the original response by DG_Gage

@DG_Gage

You need to make a font material. Here’s how:

• Import your font. Double click it to go to its editor.
• Change Font Cache Type to Offline.
• Expand Import Options, and set Height to 20, or whatever makes this happen: In the image, you want the row with the letter Z to be at the bottom of the first image square. Usually you’ll have extra symbols spilling into a second image. If you need those symbols, make a another font file with only those symbols, import it, and follow these instructions.
• Scroll down to check Use Distance Field Alpha
• Save. Under Asset, click Reimport. Save.
• Create a new material.
• Right click and create a FontSampleParameter node. Click it to see its details. Chose your font for Font.
• Create a LinearInterpolate node. Click to go to details. Set Const A to -90 and Const B to 90.
• Plug the top pin from your Font node into the Alpha of the Lerp node.
• Click the main node, the big guy with all the inputs, to go to its details. Set Blend Mode to Masked.
• Plug the result of your Lerp into Opacity Mask of the main node.
• Plug anything you want into Base Color of the main node. You can use a Constant3Vector for a simple color.

Now that you’ve done that, implementing it into a TextRender actor is easy.

• Go the details of the TextRender actor.
• Set Text Material to your new material.
• Set Font to the same font you used for your material.

Keep in mind that the very first step I mentioned, changing Font Cache Type to Offline, will make it so your font cannot be selected in UMG. You can make a duplicate of your font and set the Font Cache Type to Runtime to use it in UMG.

For ease of organization, I like to name one Font_render and the other Font_UMG.