Custom Content - Displaying Icons/Sprites

Krixus

I am trying to display icons/sprites within the text box that is used to define custom content. I am having a really hard time wrapping my head around this UI and specifically how to display images in this context.

I'm familiar with it enough to be able to display icons in things like status values, status effects etc but I don't know how to display it in this context.

In ORK 2 IMGUI, it was very simple to display an icon within a tooltip or a description by using icon text codes, but it seems to be a lot more complex in this case, I don't know how the "Image" components would work in this case.

Example:

I have a custom content, I want to display the progression of stats from status development. They are fixed so I just want to display it in a quick and easy to digest format that the player can eyeball quickly when looking at a character.

The top is pure text, but what I want is in the "ideal" section. I want to just display the icon/sprite of the status values then add the +1/2/3 rather than typing out the text itself. I don't understand how "Image" components are meant to come into play here, there are 3 images/sprites I need to display, or is there another method?

I'm own following the knowledge I have from ORK 2, so I have no idea how to proceed from this point.

I then defined the custom content text code. The text portion displays, but I cannot get any icons to display, do I need to use sprite index or something?

I can't just place the icons manually this time, they are defined in the custom content and then I need to use it as a text code because it is going to differ depending on what combatant is selected as the stat progression will obviously be different. So yeah, I really need a solution to this. I can't find any guides on this either.

Can you please explain in depth how to embed an icon in this case, please?

gamingislove

For icons to display in text, you need to set that up in TextMesh Pro - e.g. check out this part of the initial UI setup/TMP setup guide.

Also, where your icons are defined (e.g. in the status value for which you want to display an icon in text), you also need to press the Find TMP Tag button to get the TextMesh Pro tag for the icon, so that it can be displayed by the TMP text component. Naturally only do this after you've set up your custom text icons in TMP.
All of that isn't really part of ORK, just TextMesh Pro :)

Krixus

gamingislove

Thanks, yeah this was really hard to wrap my head around since in ORK 2 this was all set up natively in the editor, finally got it working lol.

gamingislove

ORK 2 had it's own text processing to handle icons in text - worked great, was very complicated and pretty bad for performance due to the text being split in many small UI elements. That's why ORK 3 dropped that and relies on built-in functionality of Unity/TextMesh Pro.