How do you change the "Vertex Color" on the TextMeshPro UI component?

Unity Engine
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Tried everything I could think of through code and google results aren’t working. There’s a bunch of stuff out there referencing color vs color32, but doesn’t seem to matter. There’s also a bunch of .color nested properties but can’t locate the one to change it.

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Had the same problem. Changing the “overrideColorTags” property to True on the TextMeshProUGUI component allowed the colors to change for me.

[textmeshprouguicomponent].overrideColorTags = true;
then change the colors
[textmeshprouguicomponent].color = new Color32(…);

Alternatively you can also just check off the “Override Tags” box in the component in the inspector.

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Thanks, i was not able to find an answer to my text color not being changed, OAAAA

4

It’s not work with me.

myTextMeshProUGUIComponent.overrideColorTags = true;
myTextMeshProUGUIComponent.color = new Color(241, 160, 118, 255);

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myTextMeshProUGUIComponent.color = new Color32(241, 160, 118, 255);

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Maybe try these two methods, this worked for me.

    public TMP_Text text;
    public Color color;

    private void Start()
    {
        text.faceColor = color;
    }

   public TMP_Text text;
    public Color color;

    private void Start()
    {
        text.enableVertexGradient = true;
        text.colorGradient = new VertexGradient(color);
    }
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Not a big fan of this solution, but this worked for me. Override Tags does not have to be true.

        for (int idx = 0; idx < _textComponent.textInfo.materialCount; ++idx)
        {
            int numColors = _textComponent.textInfo.meshInfo[idx].colors32.Length;
            for(int ci = 0; ci < numColors; ++ci)
            {
                _textComponent.textInfo.meshInfo[idx].colors32[ci] = newColor;
            }
        }
        _textComponent.UpdateVertexData(TMP_VertexDataUpdateFlags.Colors32);