Question by Frix · Nov 30, 2012 at 07:08 PM · material inspector 3dtext

Changing the colour of a 3DText through script gives a weird error

SCREENSHOTS GOT MESSED UP, CANT EMBED AND THEY'RE IN THE WRONG ORDER.

I want to change the colour of 3D text through a script, and the first time you use it, it works perfectly fine. No problem there. But the first time the text pops up, the 'Element 0' changes to 'Type mismatch', and then when you stop the game, it turns into screenshot 2.

Then the next time you start the game, the text will turn into screenshot 1.

Then you have to keep on reassigning the font material in the inspector every single time you want to start the game again. I am using a custom font, and this is my code for changing the colour: goldMesh.renderer.material.color = Color.yellow; which works perfectly fine before it spazzes out.

(edit: okay, the screenshots wont appear correctly for some reason, so just click on attachments)

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GerryM · Nov 30, 2012 at 09:54 PM 0

Did you select the font in the "Text Mesh" component (last entry)? When you select a proper font you should not have to bother with the material settings in the "Mesh Renderer".

Does changing the color work when you change the font import settings?

What version are you using? 4.0? Pro?

Sometimes a simple restart of the editor (especially on windows) does help with some weird errors.

I can change the font color with your code line fine, several times, no issues here. (Unity 4.0.0f7 Pro)

Frix · Nov 30, 2012 at 10:03 PM 0

Yeah, when I put the font onto it, I didn't need to change anything else. It worked perfectly. It's just the script that's messing it up, it seems to remove it from the component or something.

I don't know what you mean about the import settings. What could I change?

I'm using 4.0.0f7 Normal version.

I restarted. Still being weird.

I also totally forgot to mention that it comes with this error whilst the text popups weirdly: 'Shader wants normals, but the mesh doesn't have them'

GerryM · Dec 01, 2012 at 07:10 PM 0

When you select the font in your project you can change the input settings, like "Font Color". If changing it there works, it's probably not a font issue.

Perhaps you can post the script, the one line you did post works fine.

Also, you can try everything in a new project, add a font, add a 3DText, finally add your script. Might help narrowing down the error.

Check here for the same error.