Troubleshoot
Common problems creating fonts
Unable to Create Characters
Unfortunately, characters in some fonts sometimes have overlapping/lose points. They don't usually cause issues with 2D fonts but can cause problems with the character generation of the asset. It is a hassle to clear them up all manually but sometimes, just opening them up in FontForge and exporting them causes font forge to use the right tables and fix common mistakes. How to: https://ferdowsur.gitbook.io/modular-3d-text/fonts/creating-fonts#convert-to-ttf-file
Where to Get Fonts?
Anywhere they provide a TTF File. Otherwise, you can convert the font file to TTF format.
You can usually find a good selection of fonts from Google's font library: Google fonts
Font Spacing is Messed Up
The asset uses the 'advance' table to calculate the spacing. If for some reason some character's spacing is messed up because they aren't in the right table, generate a new TTF file from Font Forge. It will most likely automatically put everything in the correct tables and takes about a minute to do. How to: https://ferdowsur.gitbook.io/modular-3d-text/fonts/creating-fonts#convert-to-ttf-file
No kerning found
The asset uses the 'kern' table to get the kerning information. If your font has kerning information but, not on that table, it might be missing.
To fix it, generate a new TTF file from Font Forge following the instructions here: https://ferdowsur.gitbook.io/modular-3d-text/fonts/creating-fonts#convert-to-ttf-file But, when generating font, make sure to enable 'kern' by clicking options as shown in step 5 and 6.
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