UDK text, can I add a stroke?

Mathew O · Jul 2011

We are using the draw text function in Kismet for in game prompts and are trying to figure out a way to put a thin black stroke on our white text in order to help it stand out... Any ideas?

Thanks guys

Oniram · Jul 2011

i imagine youd have to dig a bit deeper than kismet. find where that is coded in and see if they have a specific font or something they are using.

Vailias · Jul 2011

Perhaps you could just draw a second set of text in black with an incrementally larger size but draw it behind the white text?

I've had to fake strokes that way in ps or illustrator on occasion when the font doesn't like to play nice.

warby · Jul 2011

that would double the drawcalls though ( same issue in unity ! )

the real solution would be to modifie your font "texture" which in unity is not really possible

dont know about udk

Maph · Jul 2011

warby: It's perfectly doable to do in Unity, done it before. But it's quite limited!

I'm no expert in UDK UI stuff, but can't you just use some dynamic scaleform stuff rather then the built in UDK UI calls?

AzzaMat · Aug 2011

can you choose the font in Kismet because I know you can import custom fonts in UDK?

UDK text, can I add a stroke?

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