Experimental Setup: TouchDesigner on Linux via Bottles
Nice one!
To find the font used anywhere in the UI: move your mouse cursor to that location and press F9. Touchdesigner will open the network used to make that UI (because TouchDesigner is made in….well, TouchDesigner) and with a few clicks there you’ll find the font you’re looking for.
From what I’ve experienced, (been trying to make touchdesigner work on linux for about 1-2 years now) the 2 black boxes near the timeline and timecode (and also the op menu when you press TAB)
isn’t due to lack of fonts.
There seems to be a box overlayed on top of the text. If you try for yourself, when you write the letter “g” or “p” in lowercase you’ll see the bottom of the character poke out under the box in the search field in the operator menu. I do not know how to approach this to fix the issue, as it seems to be a wine/dxvk rendering bug introduced in the translation layer.
Other than that, some network operators seems to just plain not work or make the program crash.
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Okay, small update on this
I figured out that if I inspect the fields where text wouldn’t display properly and change the “Display Method“ in the inspected field’s “textfield” OP to “Scalable” the text displays properly. Any other method either does not display or just appears to be cut off (bitmap method does this).
This seems to be applicable to any text TOP.
So sadly, I can’t fix this permanently since it’s inside a system tox. But maybe this can give some leads for some more “talented” people (or devs at Derivative) to maybe address this issue. Another thing that may be worth looking into is how DXVK handles this translation.
