Substance Designer 2017 text node in Unity

[scott_22]

First, thank you thank you THANK YOU for adding the text node in the new Substance Designer, and I'm glad SD6 support finally made it into the Unity 2017.2 beta! I was one of the people originally requesting that node, and I'm already putting it to good use in an archviz project.

I did notice a couple of limitations and would like to request they be considered as features for the next version:

• In Substance Designer, it's possible to enter a multiline value for the displayed text. In the Unity plugin, however, the field in the Inspector is a plain text field that doesn't allow line breaks. I think all you would need to do is change the field type in the Inspector to make this work correctly. Check out the MultilineAttribute in the Unity C# scripting docs (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MultilineAttribute.html) as one alternative.
• Ideally, there should be a way to have the typeface size change so the text auto-fits the map output of the node, with a parameter for the desired border in X and Y directions. Perhaps this is already possible now, and I just haven't found it yet?
• This is a long shot, but is there any way the selection of font could be an exposable input parameter? I can't actually think how to implement that, so maybe it's not feasible. Maybe accept the font name as an input and resolve it to a TTF at runtime?

Thanks for listening, and again thanks for implementing my #1 priority feature request! I'm a happy camper!

[dgoyette]

I'm bumping this post, as I was about to make the same post. Specifically:

• Please let us enter multi-line text Unity
• Allow for font-selection to be exposed.

The first seems possibly very simple to add into the plugin.

[dgoyette]

Something I discovered is that it's possible to have multi-line text when setting the text via code. For example:

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myGraph.SetInputString("Text", "Line 1\nLine 2");
So, this is sort of a workaround for those willing to use the API.

Oddly, the following results in an unknown character in the output: $"Line 1{Environment.NewLine}Line 2"

It seems Environment.NewLine isn't handled correctly by the plugin.

[Wes McDermott]

Something I discovered is that it's possible to have multi-line text when setting the text via code. For example:

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myGraph.SetInputString("Text", "Line 1\nLine 2");
So, this is sort of a workaround for those willing to use the API.

Oddly, the following results in an unknown character in the output: $"Line 1{Environment.NewLine}Line 2"

It seems Environment.NewLine isn't handled correctly by the plugin.

Thanks for posting this issue. I will add this a bug for us to address.

Cheers,
Wes