Fade rich text with <color> tags.

Unity Engine
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Hi,
any ideas how to fade rich text when we use “<color=green> text ” tags?
Maybe somehow by using hexadecimal digits “<color=#008000ff> text ”?

In this case “GUI.color.a” doesn’t work and i understand why, but i can’t figure out how to fade with color tags :confused:

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I suppose you could try to fade by going from <color=#008000ff> to <color=#00800000> (I haven’t tested this), but setting the GUI style’s alpha value should work. Use a custom GUIStyle (e.g., GUIStyle myGuiStyle = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.label)) and change myGuiStyle.normal.textColor.a. You want to change the alpha of the text color, not the background color.

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Like this? (see webplayer) :wink:

That’s a nudge-wink that if you buy the asset you can see how it is done. Sorry, i couldn’t be any more helpful :face_with_spiral_eyes:, but it wasn’t a simple task.

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You can use material on the Text object to do it.
Create material, set shader to GUI/Text shader
Then you can modify it like that: GetComponent().material.color = new Color(1,1,1,a);

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You can use CanvasRenderer.SetAlpha, best way to fade UI…

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The OP was asking about legacy Unity GUI. (This is the legacy GUI forum. ;))

For Unity UI, I agree that changing alpha (e.g., CanvasGroup.alpha or Text.color.alpha) is the way to go. You can even control it in an animation clip so you don’t need to write any code.

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Ooo sorry, found this on google, I had troubles with rich text color and using text.color to fade (had no effect on color tagged part of text), but CanvasRenderer.SetAlpha works nice

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Thanks a lot! Your reply is helpful to me. From China Shanghai.

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I think it must be a bug. Mechanim is fine to fade text with alpha, but not when it has color tags.