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I've started working on my first game in Unity; It's very simple, there's a spinning block in the middle, and there are spinning blocks coming from all sides. When they hit the middle block, you lose a life. You have 3 lives. I've hit a bit of a brick wall, here, though; I can't seem to find anywhere how to use a sprite atlas as a font, or at least be able to sprite my own font. Does anyone know how to do this?

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If you don't need fancy texture in your fonts, Unity supports True Type fonts, so you can render your text easily using the GUI system (for instance, drawing a Label).

In order to use Bitmap fonts you'll have to write the code yourself to translate the characters into sprites, or use one of the libraries available, like NGUI or Daikon Forge.

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Thanks, I was going to use a sprited font, just cause it fit better, but I decided it looked fine the way it was anyway. I thought unity had a BMF thing in in, but I guess I was wrong. –  Peyton Blanscet Jul 17 at 16:47

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