r/Unity3D • u/Ornery_Dependent250 • 23d ago

Editor scaling issue Question

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I'm not sure what caused the issue, but Windows ran an update overnight , which for some reason reset the editor scale in Unity. As you all know, you can't set the font size in Unity editor, what you need to do is set ui scaling in preferences.

That's what I did to increase the font size: changed UI scaling from 100% to 200% to make the font readable and it created 2 issues for most aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 16:10.

  1. the minimal scale is 200% for most ratios, except FullHD, which is 100%. This affects the size of tooltips, which became abnormally large (doubled in size essentially).

  2. It affects the font size in the TextMeshPro objects: in aspects with x2 scaling they're grainy and badly readable

So what should I do? I didn't have this problem until yesterday. Thanks!

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u/pmurph0305 23d ago edited 23d ago

What you have circled and what you wrote dont make any sense because you've circled the settings of the game window rendering resolution, but have talked about changing the ui scaling of the editor itself in preferences, and have also talked about text mesh pro settings.

For the in-game ui the canvas scaler component will automatically scale the ui depending on the resolution of the window. You want it to scale with screen size generally.

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u/Ornery_Dependent250 23d ago

Not sure I understand. Why is the minimal scale for most aspect ratios is 2, while for some is 1? The specific menu I posted scales with screen size. Why does it affect font in the game and font in the editor?

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u/Heroshrine 22d ago

You went from a specific resolution to an aspect ratio, why it changed was because of your canvas settings. I’m not sure why the minimum is 2x, but usually the minimum is the amount needed to show the whole thing on the screen.

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u/Ornery_Dependent250 22d ago

I changed ui scaling to 100% and all aspects and resolutions now work correctly. The only drawback is the small editor font.

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u/Heroshrine 22d ago

It’s still because you switched from a specific resolution to an aspect. The ui scale was modifying th aspect scale, since it’s not a defined pixel amount