How to create a Distance Field Font in Unreal Engine 5

so you probably know uh this little and very handful object text render now we want to create a different font for it and to get font we go to fonts Google and here we download the font here it is so I have already unpacked it if you want to use it in your game and to do what we want to do is you should install it now that you have installed it go to Unreal Engine and drag and drop it here create new font and here it is now you save it open this one which is font here uh well actually you can definitely duplicate it and make it maybe a distance build so now you open it now here change to off off line here select the font you need it shouldn't be very small so if you want it to be smooth I found it be useful to get something this one okay so here it is but it's not yet done now we want to well I'm usually doing it like this and now you need to click distance field Alpha and again that's not all now you need to re-import it with this setting now it's three imported and that's what we wanted to have redo it once again I'm not sure why let's change the height here maybe I was yeah okay now it's correct save it and so now it's ready to be used we can just change it here and as you can see that's a new font we got and now you can just scale the object and make it a huge sign anywhere in your world and of course here it is so now you can use it that's it and here's how you change the font yeah that's how you change the font afterwards so now now you can have just don't forget that it should be not just font but the distance the one that we have just created that's it

Channel: Vasily Gnuchev

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Length: 3min 51sec (231 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023