Will NGUI support ttf font when Untiy4 released?

[zhangjiq1983]

As titled.
Unity4 will release some ttf access interfaces , so I think NGUI will add this.
Am I right?

[ArenMook]

It's certainly a possibility.

[busuzima]

Hi ArenMook,
could you please give a more specific answer, whether it will support ttf or not? NGUI is a great help for our current project, but we really need ttf Fonts, too. 

Best regards, proud NGUI user ,)

[ArenMook]

The most specific answer I can give right now is -- not yet. I currently work at Unity, and the UI system there already supports all of this, and while it will be a while until it's released, it would be odd for me to reinvent the wheel at this time.

[N3uRo]

I understand that but we don't know when will be available the new Unity UI, it could be 3 months, 6 months...

[dlewis]

I understand that but we don't know when will be available the new Unity UI, it could be 3 months, 6 months...

I believe they originally said it would come with 3.0 or 3.5...so it's been a very...very long time coming. If TTF support isn't added in an update I will have to add it myself unfortunately

[nah0y]

So Aren,

Now that Unity4 is out and support dynamic fonts, will you add that to NGUI ? Or as you said, it will only be available in the new Unity GUI ?

If it isn't hard to implement, it will be a HUGE help

[loverains]

the Unity4 has released,it's very important for decide when to upgrade.
i'm using 3.5 with ngui,the multi bytes character atlas eat too many memory and archivement large
i want keep the ngui atlas solution for the UI control,the font just use dynamic.

[nah0y]

UP ? 

[ArenMook]

My answer still stands. New features for NGUI are a grey area with my contract right now, and the upcoming GUI already supports this correctly. Right now I'm focusing on polish, as usual -- and from Unity's side that will affect more than just NGUI. There have been a bunch of changes in Unity that will be out with 4.1 that greatly improve NGUI's performance and fix some of the weirdness -- such as removing the need for renaming FNT to TXT, UI disappearing after script recompile, or not resizing properly when you resize the game window to name a few.

[mindlube]

Right now I'm focusing on polish, as usual -- and from Unity's side that will affect more than just NGUI. There have been a bunch of changes in Unity that will be out with 4.1 that greatly improve NGUI's performance and fix some of the weirdness

Michael, that's great to hear that Unity has snatched you up, at least for some contracting. Your attention to detail and coding skills will definitely make Unity 4.1 and/or the future Unity new-GUI even better!!!
Was glad to see there are continued updates to NGUI nonetheless

[nah0y]

Nice ! Can't wait to see all those improvements in Unity 4.1