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Prepare Fonts, Glyphs, and Builds

A successful Edit Mode preview can use editor-only font access that is not available in a player. Build Preparation turns the exact runtime policy and glyph coverage into inspectable project assets before a build. Open Tools > Text Studio > 3D > Build Preparation, or use Open Build Preparation from the component's Build Readiness foldout.

Typography ownership

The active Text Studio backend is authoritative. Font Source defaults to Text Object, so TextMeshPro or UniText chooses typography, shaping, fallback faces, and visual order. Choose Theme only for deliberate theme inheritance. Font3D is matching technical data for outline access and prepared glyph geometry. It is not a second font picker and must match the active source face.

Font3D inspector showing ready runtime outline data and its matching generated source font.

Font3D shows the prepared runtime outline source that matches the authoritative Text Studio font.

Choose a runtime policy

  • Generate if missing allows runtime outline generation when prepared data is absent. Use it for genuinely dynamic content when the player has durable access to the correct outline source.
  • Prepared only forbids surprise geometry generation. It is the predictable choice for controlled builds, consoles, strict memory plans, or content whose exact glyph set can be prepared ahead of time.

Prepared only preflights the exact visible request. When data is missing or incompatible, Text Studio 3D reports the blocker and keeps the last valid mesh instead of replacing readable output with a partial or corrupt result.

Text Studio 3D Build Preparation window with runtime policy, coverage, readiness checks, and canonical store summary.

Build Preparation connects an exact text target and font to runtime policy, coverage, readiness, and generated stores.

Choose coverage

  • Selected text prepares the exact visible output of the selected Text Studio 3D object. Use it for a focused sign, title, prefab, or readiness investigation.
  • Project coverage scans intended project content and combines selected character groups, custom Unicode scalars, and representative shaped sample lines. Use it for a release-ready language set.

Coverage is not a bag of plain characters. Preparation tracks Unicode scalar, resolved glyph index, fallback face, and shaped identity. Ligatures, bidirectional order, combining marks, fallbacks, and supplementary Unicode therefore prepare the geometry that the backend will actually request.

What Build Preparation creates

Prepare missing glyph variants builds the runtime font and fallback data required by the chosen policy, then stores compatible raw topology in the reusable geometry store. The window reports ready, missing, and blocked coverage before you commit the change.

Project settings
Assets/Text Studio/Resources/TextStudio/TextStudio3DProjectSettings.asset

Reusable geometry
Assets/Text Studio/Resources/TextStudio/Prepared Geometry/Text Studio 3D Reusable Geometry.asset

Generated runtime font data
Assets/Text Studio 3D/Generated Font Data

Reusable geometry contains raw topology rather than a finished scene appearance. Placement, material mapping, material assignment, supported deformation, spatial effects, and other presentation remain local to the consuming text object.

Prepared only compatibility

  • A mutable extrusion path without a durable identity cannot safely address reusable geometry. Snapshot it, provide stable identity, or use Generate if missing.
  • Word, Line, and Whole Text contour geometry depends on the complete current text. Use Per Glyph, freeze the final object, or keep runtime generation available.
  • A pre-geometry module changes the reusable input. A topology-changing post-geometry module changes the reusable result. Both must declare truthful cache impact and may require Generate if missing or a frozen final output.
  • Topology-preserving placement, mapping, material, effect, and compatible deformation work can remain outside the reusable topology and apply after retrieval.

Build validation turns missing preparation into a warning or error according to the selected runtime policy. Resolve the reported glyph, font, style, path, grouping, or module condition before shipping rather than relying on editor success.

Bundled fonts and Type Foundry

Text Studio 3D includes Bebas Neue Regular, Bungee Regular, Monoton Regular, Audiowide Regular, Cinzel Decorative Bold, Press Start 2P Regular, and ZCOOL QingKe HuangYou Regular. Each family includes its OFL source, matching dynamic TextMeshPro data, and prepared player-ready 3D outline data.

Open Typography Foundry to compare all seven as live editable extrusion. The ZCOOL station renders genuine Chinese lettering from the complete bundled font source rather than a phrase subset or replacement mesh.

Language and shaping validation

  • Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic: verify coverage, accents, kerning, and fallback transitions.
  • CJK: prepare the deliberate production ranges and representative shaped lines required by the shipped languages.
  • Arabic and Hebrew: validate shaping, ligatures, bidirectional visual order, punctuation, and mixed-script content through UniText.
  • Combining marks and supplementary Unicode: confirm that resolved glyph identity and placement survive preparation, extrusion, and animation.
  • Fallbacks: verify that every resolved face exposes compatible outline data and appears in the prepared runtime chain.
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