Scrolling Text

Unity Engine
1

Hi all im new on unity and im trying to do a scrolling text from right to left, that should scroll a lyric of a song.
Could someone tell me if there’s some function to do this. Or should i use a GuiText and translate it?
And how can i do a container for that text so it doesn’t come from the begining of the screen?

Thanks and regards.

2

Here’s a script I whipped up that should do the trick:

using UnityEngine;

public class Marquee : MonoBehaviour
{
	public string message = "Where we're going, we don't need roads.";
	public float scrollSpeed = 50;
	
	Rect messageRect;
	
	void OnGUI ()
	{
		// Set up the message's rect if we haven't already
		if (messageRect.width == 0) {
			Vector2 dimensions = GUI.skin.label.CalcSize(new GUIContent(message));
			
			// Start the message past the left side of the screen
			messageRect.x      = -dimensions.x;
			messageRect.width  =  dimensions.x;
			messageRect.height =  dimensions.y;
		}
		
		messageRect.x += Time.deltaTime * scrollSpeed;
		
		// If the message has moved past the right side, move it back to the left
		if (messageRect.x > Screen.width) {
			messageRect.x = -messageRect.width;
		}
		
		GUI.Label(messageRect, message);
	}
}

It uses GUI.Label, though without much difficulty you could modify it to use a GUIText object instead.