Before I go a create a system to do what I’m looking for I wanted to check and make sure I’m not reinventing the wheel.
I’m porting a project from Unity that so far has been a breeze however I would like to create a custom font within Unreal that uses a Font Atlas as the glyph sheet.
After a little digging, it looks like Offline Fonts are the way to go (Kind of).
With an Offline font, I can export the sheet, replace the alpha channel what what I want and have that reflected in the Preview window (Success!)
After more Digging it seems to be the the Extended ASCII code (0 - 127 and 128-255)
Moving the Start U of Index 65 moved the A and 192 moves À (Also Success!)
Once that was understood the array members all make sense:
Start U/V Origin at the top right of the selected texture
U/V Size work as expected
Texture Index is the 0-based “texture”
Vertical Offset I think is the character’s vertical bias
So I think I have all the tools I need, except…
It looks like an Offline Font can’t be used in UMG, Is this right? Perhaps there is a Plugin that might do what I need?
I feel like my option would be to create an image widget for each character and swap out its texture, but if there is some easier I’m all ears!
That was a very nice feature in Unity where I could easily create and modify fonts with a fully fleshed-out UI, but I totally understand that isn’t unreals bag.