Typography

Render text, images, and particles on a VRChat avatar. Three shaders (Typography / Imagery / Particler) controlled entirely through material properties — no C# scripts, Animator drives everything.

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Performance

Fragment shader instruction count vs. comparable libraries (Unity compiled shader stats, d3d11):

	Math	Texture	Branch
Typography	920	3	31
SSVFX	3,702	102	201
TexSvfx	5,585	210	255

Average frame cost:

	Avg	Ratio
Typography	0.471 ms	1x
SSVFX	0.851 ms	1.8x
TexSvfx	6.094 ms	13.0x

Numbers are for the text shader. Imagery and Particler render in separate draw calls.

Installation

Requires Unity 2022.3 LTS+, Built-in Render Pipeline, and Thry Editor.

1. Import Thry Editor
2. Import the Typography unitypackage
3. Three sample materials appear under Prefab/:
   • GekikaraStore_Typography.mat (text)
   • GekikaraStore_Imagery.mat (image)
   • GekikaraStore_Particler.mat (particle)

Quick start

1. Duplicate Prefab/GekikaraStore_Typography.mat into your project and rename
2. Assign it to a GameObject with MeshFilter + MeshRenderer
3. Open the material inspector, add a Font asset under Fonts
4. Open Layer 0, toggle Use on, type into Text
5. Click Gen — the atlas and mesh generate and assign automatically
6. Tweak effects (Typewriter, Outline, Fractal Noise, etc.)

Image and Particle work the same way — no Gen needed, they use the static meshes shipped with the package.

Effects

Per layer (32 per material):

• Typewriter — reveal characters sequentially or through a sliding window. Direction (LTR / RTL / Center Out), Group By (Character / Word / Line). In and Out phases each carry separate progress and transform offsets
• Centering — keeps the visible portion centered while Typewriter is mid-animation
• Spacing — letter spacing with Center / Left / Right anchor
• Scatter — random or directional per-character displacement
• Repeater — duplicate the layer 1–16 times with per-copy transform offsets
• Curve Path — drive per-character X/Y/Z position with AnimationCurves
• Path Shape — bend the text along Circle or Rectangle paths
• Shake — random per-frame jitter
• Outline — Outline (filled) or Stroke (outline only) mode with rounded corner option
• Fractal Noise — color modulation through 6 noise types (Simplex / Flow / FBM / Turbulence / Ridged / Marble)

Limits

• 255 characters per text layer (split longer text across multiple layers)
• Material must be saved as an asset before pressing Gen
• Adding or removing fonts requires re-Gen
• Repeater count is animatable up to the baked maximum — set the max higher than the largest runtime value you intend to use
• Built-in RP only (URP / HDRP not supported)
• PC and PC VR (Index, Vive, Quest-Link, etc.) — Quest standalone is not a target

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Dependencies:

• Thry Editor
• msdf-atlas-gen (vendored)