Inflate a text like a balloon

Hello all,

I would like inflate my score like a balloon.
Increase the scale property doesn’t give me the effect.

I don’t know if make a text mesh and modify vertices via script is the good solution? I’m not used to modify vertices.

Are you trying to make your own 3D Mesh numbers? and use Morph targets to inflate and Deflate them?

I need to change my text dynamically and proportionally inflate/deflate it.
If I use a 3D Mesh I think I can’t change my text

Or is there a way to increase the size of some letters?

If I increase the size of letters in middle I will have an inflating effect in 2D

You may be able to use this as a starting point to get what you want GitHub - brunomikoski/Text-Juicer: Simple tool to create awesome text animations but I’m not totally clear on what your trying to achieve. Any examples from other games?

Are you looking for something like this?

This is done using TextMesh Pro where you can dynamically modify material properties where in this case I simply Dilated the text.

Here is an image of the material properties / Material Preset that was used in this example.

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