Question by Yendor_ · Nov 18, 2016 at 12:36 PM · unity 5 ui text canvas

Unity UI Text with markup tags - “String too long for TextMeshGenerator”

I have a Text UI component in which I have 20 lines of 100 character long columns. This works fine. But if I try to enclose each character inside <color> </color> tags to give them different colors, I get the following error messages:

 String too long for TextMeshGenerator. Cutting off characters.
 ArgumentException: Mesh can not have more than 65000 vertices

I don't understand why the tags count towards the character limit, or why they increase the number of vertices.

What would be the best way to solve this? I am using Unity version 5.4.1f1.

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Marceta · Nov 18, 2016 at 01:47 PM 0

Split that text in couple UIText elements. Quick solution.

Yendor_ Marceta · Nov 18, 2016 at 05:49 PM 0

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried dividing it into four separate UIText elements, and got it working. However the UIText seemed to have a lot worse performance compared to GUIText components, so I'll be using them instead.

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Unity UI Text with markup tags - “String too long for TextMeshGenerator”

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