Bevy text isn't displayed and I don't know why

Question

Hello everyone I am trying write the score in the top left corner of the window but for some reason it is not working. Here is the code I used to spawn the text:

commands
.spawn(TextBundle{
    text: Text{value: "Score:".to_string(),
    font: assets.load("FiraSans-Bold.ttf"),
    style:TextStyle{
        font_size:30.0,
        color:Color::WHITE,
        ..Default::default()},..Default::default()},
    transform: Transform::from_translation(Vec3::new(-380.0,-380.0,2.0)),
    ..Default::default()
})
.with(TextTag);

Window is 800 by 800. Any help is appreciated.

Have you had a look at the [UI example in the bevy repo](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/master/examples/ui/text.rs)? It looks like there is a position variable in style that you use to position the UI element instead of using the transform. It also looks like you need a UI camera and based on the code you have you may not have one — eric556, Feb 11 '21 at 19:12

MKroehnert · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-13T17:10:06.130

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You may need to add the CameraUiBundle if you did not yet do it.

commands
    .spawn(CameraUiBundle::default())
    .spawn(TextBundle{
        ...
    })
    .with(TextTag);

You might want to do that in your initial setup system in which you also add the camera.

The Bevy version used when answering was 0.4.

edited Mar 13 '21 at 17:10

answered Feb 28 '21 at 19:29

MKroehnert

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nice one. I didn't realise that the camera was separate to the main camera. Now I wonder how to display text as part of the scene? – Squirrel Apr 20 '22 at 08:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '22 at 18:45

Another reason (in bevy 0.8) might be that there's no default font in bevy (check out this answer)

What you'd need to do would be to download a .ttf file, and then load it when spawning the text.

TextStyle {
    font_size: 50.0,
    color: Color::WHITE,
    font: asset_server.load("your_font.ttf"),
},

Bevy text isn't displayed and I don't know why

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