Unity Asset demos

McFly

I downloaded the Unity Asset hoping that the code editor and demos would help me to better understand Unity integration along with the documentation, but I'm getting null references referring to TextMeshPro.
I thought it might be a TMPro version conflict but I've tried new projects in all 4 unity versions that I've used recently from 2018.3 to 2019.2. Is there any other installation steps neccessary apart from installing the MiniScript asset and the TMPro popup installation?

jstrout

No, it should work fine with any version of TMPro. I wonder if because you installed the asset first, and then TMPro, maybe all the TMPro components in the demo scene were already broken.

Try deleting MiniScript from your project, then make sure you have TMPro set up, and then re-add MiniScript.

McFly

I can't even get TMPro to install without a list of errors in a new project on any Unity version so clearly this isn't a MiniScript problem. I'll keep searching elsewhere for a solution but thanks for helping to narrow it down.

McFly

Searching for TMPro import issues returns threads about upgrade issues, with solutions such as delete TMPro folder because TMPro is included in Unity 2018.2 and later.
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1527978/20182-text-mesh-pro-plugin-errors.html
So that could explain all my errors trying to import TMPro, and brings me back to wondering how to get MiniScript demos to work.

If I start a new project in 2019.2.5 I can import MiniScript, Import TMP Essentials, and Examples & Extra when prompted with no error. Then run Miniscript Demo Scene, and when I click "Program" I get a null reference TMPro MaterialReference, and an Index Out Of Range.
If I start a new project and Import TMPro, I get hundreds of errors and alerts, then MiniScript demos won't run due to compile errors.

jstrout

Lovely. I have 2019.2.0 here (traveling with my laptop this week); I'll see if I can reproduce the problem and work through it. My apologies for the trouble.

In the meantime, maybe you can hone your MiniScript skills via the contest? 😉

jstrout

OK, here's what I did:

Started a new project (in 2019.2.0 in my case; hopefully this works the same in 2019.2.5).
Imported MiniScript. Got the TextMeshPro import prompt; imported the TMPro Essentials.
Opened the MiniScript Demo scene.
Ran. Got a couple of errors deep in the bowels of TMPro when I switched to the code editor.
Found that the fonts were not set on the TextMeshProUGUI objects. There are two of these in this scene, "SourceLinePrototype" and "LineNumberPrototype". You can find them here:

...or you could search for them by putting "t:TextMeshProUGUI" into the field at the top of the Hierarchy window. Select each of those, click the little selection button next to Font Asset, and select ProFontIIx SDF.

At this point, when I ran, the program demo basically worked. Output text was not appearing, though. Turns out that I still have some older Text objects that never got converted to TMPro, and some of these also lost their font settings. (Thanks, Unity!) Put "t:Text" into the Hierarchy search field, and check each of them for missing fonts. Select a font (Monaco is a decent choice).

After that, everything seems to work for me. It was all just missing font selections.

I'm planning an update to the plugin soon... I have a handful of bug-fixes for the code editor, and some updates to MiniScript itself (already available in GitHub, but not yet rolled into the plugin). So when I do that, I'll be sure to test in the latest Unity and try to fix it so the demos don't import with broken fonts.

Thanks for your patience, and let me know if you run into any more trouble!

McFly

All good now. Thanks so much for walking me through it. Greatly appreciated