Good day, I want to add an outline to my textmeshpro, but the Outline component doesn't seem to work. I also tried the outline settings on the inspector, but it edits all textmeshpro in mys scene. I want to have different outline for every game object that uses textmeshpro.
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You can try setting it programmatically:
void Awake()
{
TextMeshPro textmeshPro = GetComponent<TextMeshPro>();
textmeshPro.outlineWidth = 0.2f;
textmeshPro.outlineColor = new Color32(255, 128, 0, 255);
}
I have had issues with TextMeshPro and some fonts before, though, which I haven't been able to fix and I could never find the root cause.
That seems to be the normal behaviour of the component, because the material instance is the same for all the components.
http://digitalnativestudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=630.0
If you change the material you can check that the outline then applies individually:
If you want the exact same material in all your components, which is the desirable thing, I would duplicate the desired font and material in editor, and add one different material instance to each of the components.
To create the outline externally on TMP I created a custom shader and posted on Unity's forum: https://forum.unity.com/threads/tmpro-draw-external-outline-before-faces.503999/#post-7619947
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