Making Text Boxes With Letters Appearing One At A Time

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve been trying to do something like this to tell the story in my game.

But I’ve been unable to figure out how to do it, mainly because I can’t think of any ways to make one letter appear on the screen at a time, rather than a character’s entire line.

So I must ask. How can I make text boxes that have letters appear one at a time instead of all at once? While I’m asking, links to any tutorials and such regarding things like that would be appreciated., since I’m fairly new to Unity.

2

The GUI stuff isn't really related here. How Fill a string one letter at a time ?

private var str: string;
function Start(){
    AnimateText("Pretty cool text");
}

function AnimateText(string strComplete){
    var i: int = 0;
    str = "";
    while( i < strComplete.Length ){
        str += strComplete[i++];
        yield WaitForSeconds(0.5);
    }
}

and C# (need to be explicitely inside a class, but I guess you already know that)

private string str;
void Start(){
    StartCoroutine( AnimateText("Pretty cool text") );
}

IEnumerator AnimateText(string strComplete){
    int i = 0;
    str = "";
    while( i < strComplete.Length ){
        str += strComplete[i++];
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5F);
    }
}

Then the GUI part is obvious.

3

public class AnimatedText : MonoBehaviour {
public AnimatedText(){}

   public void animateText(string strComplete){
      int i = 0;
      string str = "";
      while(i < strComplete.Length){
         str += strComplete[i++];
         new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
      }
   }
}