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【VRChat / Unity】AyuText High-Definition Text Generation and Management Tool Enter your text, press a button, and you are ready to go. AyuText is a Unity Editor tool for creating high-quality text assets for VRChat avatars and worlds. It converts your text into a shared MTSDF / MSDF font atlas, mesh, material, and prefab. Generated text can be edited again later, including its content, fonts, glyph quality, and layout—there is no need to rebuild everything from scratch. Use it for avatar nameplates and accessories, world signs, shop banners, logos, event graphics, and many other applications. ■Recommended For ・Creating text that remains crisp when viewed up close ・Making text directly inside Unity without an image editor ・Changing text without manually rebuilding meshes and textures ・Using Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in the same text ・Sharing a single font atlas between multiple text assets ・Creating detailed materials that match an avatar or world ・Balancing visual quality and VRAM usage ■Main Features ◆ Crisp Even When Enlarged AyuText uses MTSDF / MSDF distance-field textures. Compared with ordinary text images, the edges remain much clearer when enlarged. The same system can be used for small avatar accessories viewed at close range or large signs placed inside a world. ◆ Generate Everything from Text to Prefab Enter your text, choose the fonts, glyph quality, and atlas resolution, then press the generation button. AyuText creates all required assets together: ・Shared font atlas ・Mesh ・Material ・Prefab ・Registration data for future editing Each new text asset is stored in its own dated and numbered folder, keeping generated files organized. ◆ Edit Generated Text Later You do not need to recreate existing text from the beginning. Select its Prefab, scene GameObject, Mesh, or Material to restore the registered settings in AyuText. Even after unpacking a Prefab, the text can still be edited as long as it retains a registered Mesh or Material reference. ◆ Multiple Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Chinese / Latin, Japanese, and Korean fonts can be assigned separately. When several languages appear in the same text, AyuText automatically uses the corresponding font for each character. ・Chinese / Latin font ・Japanese font ・Korean font ・Separate spacing controls for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ・Glyph quality adjustment based on CJK and Korean character complexity ◆ Shared Font Libraries Multiple text assets can share a single font atlas. When the required glyphs already exist in the selected library, AyuText does not store duplicate copies for every new text. Shared atlas files are stored in the “libraries” folder. Each text keeps its own Mesh, Material, and Prefab in a separate folder. The Library Manager can inspect registered libraries, remove invalid members, delete registry entries, and delete their exported files. ◆ MTSDF / MSDF Selection MTSDF: Recommended when you need more stable outlines, shadows, glass-like edges, and other effects that use the additional distance channel. MSDF: Does not use an alpha channel and can reduce VRAM usage further. Each shared library uses one distance-field format. ■Powerful Custom Material Shader Generated materials automatically use the AyuText Shader and Material GUI. It can do much more than change the text color, allowing the text itself to become a complete decorative element. ・Base color and transparency ・Inner and outer outlines ・Shadow, shadow expansion, and softness ・Emission and glow ・Gradients ・Text blur ・Background blur ・Pseudo-3D depth ・SDF-generated normal-style highlights ・Glossy edge lighting ・MatCap reflections ・Cubemap reflections ・Per-character bounce animation ・Render Queue and other advanced settings The Material GUI uses expandable sections, so you only need to open the features you want to adjust. The interface supports 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文, English, and 한국어. ■VRAM and Character Capacity AyuText’s primary VRAM usage is determined by the font atlas resolution. With the low-VRAM quality settings, a 2048×2048 MTSDF atlas is designed to hold approximately 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters. ・2048×2048 MTSDF: 16 MiB VRAM ・2048×2048 MSDF: 12 MiB VRAM Resolution presets display their corresponding VRAM usage directly inside the tool. Choose the glyph quality you need first, then use the smallest atlas that can hold all required characters. A fuller atlas wastes less unused texture space. * Actual character capacity depends on the font, glyph complexity, glyph quality, padding, and the selected character set. * Do not compress SDF / MSDF / MTSDF atlas textures. Changing Texture Importer compression, sRGB, or filtering settings may damage the distance field and cause broken text edges. ■Quick Start 1. Import the UnityPackage into your Unity project. 2. Open AyuText from the Unity top menu: Tools > AyuSoftware > Tools > AyuText 3. Enter your text under “Input Text”, or assign a TextAsset. 4. Choose MTSDF / MSDF, fonts, glyph quality, atlas resolution, and layout settings. 5. Press the generation button. 6. Drag the generated Prefab into your scene. 7. Select the generated Material and customize its appearance through the AyuText Material GUI. ■Editing Existing Text 1. Select the corresponding Prefab, GameObject, Mesh, or Material in the Project window or Scene. 2. Open AyuText and load the selected asset through “Edit Existing Text”. 3. Change the text or any other settings. 4. Press the update button to update the registered text assets. ■System Requirements ・Developed and tested with Unity 2022.3.22f1 ・Tested with VRChat SDK 3.10.3 ・Windows x64 ・Built-in Render Pipeline ・Supports VRChat avatars and worlds The bundled msdf-atlas-gen executable is for Windows x64. AyuText is an offline text baking tool that runs inside the Unity Editor. It is not a runtime text-input system for players inside VRChat. After the avatar or world assets have been generated, msdf-atlas-gen and the Editor scripts are not executed at runtime. ■Package Contents ・AyuText Editor Tool ・AyuText Shader ・AyuText Material GUI ・Demo Prefab / Material / Mesh / Atlas ・Font files for initial settings, basic demonstrations, and testing ・msdf-atlas-gen for Windows x64 ・README ・Terms of Use ・Third-party licenses and font notices ■Font Notice This product includes selected Alibaba Font files only for initial settings, basic demonstrations, and testing. The product being sold is the AyuText tool and its related Unity assets. The included font files are not sold, rented, lent, transferred, or sublicensed as standalone products. When using the fonts, please review the included legal notice and the official terms published by the font provider. AyuText / AyuSoftware is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or officially authorized by Alibaba or its affiliates. ■Permitted Uses ・Personal use: Allowed ・Commercial use: Allowed ・Use in VRChat avatars and worlds: Allowed ・Editing generated Meshes, Materials, Prefabs, and Textures: Allowed ・Using generated results in videos, streams, screenshots, and portfolios: Allowed ・Publishing the runtime assets required by a completed avatar or world: Allowed Reselling or redistributing the AyuText tool itself, Editor scripts, Shader, Demo, or bundled tools as a tool or asset package is prohibited. Please read the included “TERMS_OF_USE.md” for the complete terms. ■Update History 2026/07/08　v1.0.0 ・Initial release