Hey all, I am trying to make text appear when I have a game over screen pop up. The buttons do, because they’re dragged into the slots but the text wont let me drag it into the slot. The reference and the text are both TMPro, and I have TMPro in my script. using System.Collections; using System.Col…

You need to use TMP_text or something similar. Now you reference the whole textmeshpro class instead of just the text you need. This is shown in documentation as well

Can you give me a link to the unity docs? I cant seem to find the ones for TMP and where id put the TMP_text [image] DevDunk: You need to use TMP_text or something similar. Now you reference the whole textmeshpro class instead of just the text you need. This is shown in documentation as well …

The 2D forum is not for UI posts. I’ll move your post to the UI forum. Thanks.

I can't drag my text into the editor slot!

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DevDunk May 14, 2023, 7:03pm 4

Replace TextMeshPro with TMP_Text

Found on my first google search: https://forum.unity.com/threads/access-textmeshpro-text-through-script.527992

Indeed isn’t that easily found

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I can't drag my text into the editor slot!

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