5.3 Text component, vertical placement not correct?

Just downloaded today released 5.3, and loaded my project. Like the topic says, i noticed that texts are not aligned the same they were in 5.2.3 = seems like vertical alignment is off.

Top aligned text is way out of box, above it.
Center aligned text is somewhere around were I'd expect top aligned text to be.
Bottom aligned text is aligned somewhere around center of text box.

I'm using baked bitmap font: 40 pixels, Rendering Mode: Hinted Raster mode, Character: ASCII default set.

Have to test a bit more, but seems like something has changed.

 

Well, maybe it's the same as this one;

http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/iss...vertical-alignment-is-wrong-on-text-component

 

Hey, I had the same issue using font-awesome and custom TextUnicode script.

I changed font import "Character" option from Unicode to Dynamic and everything seems to work fine.

 

Yup same here, top one is Dynamic and bottom is Unicode. The reason for using Unicode was to minimize the Font.Cache lag, and caching only dynamic fonts where needed. The issue report above says its not to be fixed ??

 

Yep, noticed that - I guess it's OK to use dynamic as solution for now, but I think I'd like to keep it as baked bitmap for performance reasons. So I might roll back to 5.2.3 unless this is going to be fixed in a patch release.

 

Have same issue , have to rollback to previous version...

 

karl.jones:

Hi, do you mean right click menu "Reimport" and Refresh (Ctrl+R) ?

I hadn't tried it, now just did, tried saving project and restarting Unity too, but it made no difference.

Only when I change font character to "Dynamic", it gets fixed, but all other options result to offset text.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, imported another copy of the font, but same here didn't fix the problem.

Bug report and sample scene sent, fresh 5.3 project, all defaults used.

 

Getting the same issue on my unicode fonts after updating to 5.3 this morning. Seems like the center point of the text is raised higher than it should be. It's positioned correctly if set to dynamic, and positioned correctly as unicode in previous Unity versions.

 

I wish I could use the dynamic but visually my font gets ruined by it. So Unicode would be very nice to get working. We can not really start using 5.3 without it

 

@karl.jones Thanks for the update.

 

Thought fixed i dont think its made it out to a public release yet.

 

I attached a button component to my text and in some computers (I'm not even sure if it's because of resolution, as I tested the game with the resolution people who reported the bug had) you have to click over the text to make it work. Is it possible that this bug is related to that?

 

It was a Unity bug indeed! Thank God, I was going crazy! I've been trying to fix this bug for almost a week.
Thank you!

 

I just updated to 5.3.1 and the same problem with Unicode font is there.

 

We also are not seeing this resolved in 5.3.1.

 

Did you reimport the font after updating?

 

Still have the same problem, installed 5.3.1 over 5.3, imported new font - setting font anything other than Dynamic and fonts still does the same vertical up offset thing (at least on one Windows 10 machine).

 

Yes, just tried again to be certain. Right click on the font on project and select "Reimport"

 

I just upgraded to 5.3.1 and guess what ... NOT fixed. This blows. Guess I'll have to downgrade again.

 

Yea that should be all thats needed.

 

I submitted a new bug report for this, issue 755468.

 

I also tested now on Windows 7 editor and Mac OSX editor with reimport on both. No difference.

 

Can you give a link to the issue? I can't find how to search issues by ID. Thanks.

 

Thank karl, Wouldn't it be better if the tracker search returned the bug anyway, but just reported it as not public yet?

 

Thanks Karl. I don't seem to be able to find a reference in the release notes ?

 

Just upgraded to 5.3.1, issue is indeed still there.

We can't have the text to be dynamic, since the text is not determined at build time. Really need a fix urgently!

 

Anyone checked out Patched 5.3.1p1 yet? I'm at work ATM so can't download. Please let this be fixed. It's the only thing holding back my release.

 

Text placement isn't fixed in patch and I get new spam error in console "IsFinite(outDistanceForSort)" which opens water.cs file (spam error messages about particle with emission 0 fixed)

And again downgrade to 5.3.0 ...

 

Really? Text placement was broken for me even in 5.3.0 -- even after performing Custom Font ReImport. I had to downgrade all the way back to 5.2.4f1

 

@karl.jones or @phil-Unity - are there currently any open issues with vertical text alignment that you are looking into? I'm asking because I don't want to invest two hours into making an example project when there are already enough open issues.

FWIW: I'm still experiencing improper vertical alignment for text fields in Unity 5.3.1f1.

 

Any updates on this?
As of 5.3.1p1 - this is not fixed.

 

The UI team has just gotten back to work so hopefully in one of the patches soon.

 

Well, looking at the list of fixed issues on patch 5.3.1.p2, it's STILL NOT fixed.

 

manny003: I was about to install 5.3.1 p2 but same as you, as I didn't see text placement listed in release notes, didn't. Maybe it has the fix included, but just not listed in release notes. Go figure.

Has anyone tested this already?

I guess I'll test it a bit later, would be nice to get to 5.3 from 5.2.

 

I've tested it in 5.3.1p2, it's still broken.

 

I'm having this issue as well. I want to comment that since Dynamic fonts perform really badly on iOS, that's not an option for me.

 

Argh..just updated yesterday.
Dynamic fonts have 4-5 fps on mobiles. So no it is not a workaround. I can't believe these version updates got out of the door with a bug like "this" . Really?
My whole project is in ruins now and this close to the release?

 

Same for me, just leaving a message to have an alert when a fix is here...

 

Same. Anyone else seeing the issue even when using the dynamic character import setting? I have two different fonts, one that works when imported as dynamic and one that has the offset issue w/ dynamic.

I am worried that the fix has been made but I am missing some reimport steps to fix the existing issue

 

Patch 5.3.1p3 is out today, it seems. Has anyone checked if the vertical placement issue is fixed? I don't see any exact mention about this in release notes.

 

Thanks a LOT for being so responsive on this issue!! I don't see that in software development often, but it is very much appreciated!