UI Text Appearing as "Typing", One Letter At A Time

[TheRedGuy90]

The best example of this text effect is here in a Mega Man game…

Mega Man X3 - Capsule Dialogue [ Final? - Unsure ]

Does Unity have a plug-in for this hidden somewhere, or is this something mainly coded?

[LaneFox]

This is not a built in feature, you need to write a script that updates a Text element with new letters over time.

[TheWanderingBen]

With Unity’s default Text object, this is only possible by adding to the string in real time. A problem: it becomes tricky to know when a word will wrap onto the next line (if you just add to the string, eventually the last word on a line will pop into the next line – distracting for readers).

But with the new TextMeshProUGUI object, you can actually control the colour of individual letters. This allows you to pop in one letter at a time, like you described, but even more interesting things, like fading in one word at a time.

[clarklak11]

You can refer to this tutorial. Hope it helps

Unity 5 - Type Writer Effect Tutorial (Great for Dialogues)

[Persona001_ID_Miijii]

@clarklak11

You can refer to this tutorial. Hope it helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qbjmb_1hV4

THANK YOU!!!

[EggieHCB]

@TheWanderingBen

With Unity’s default Text object, this is only possible by adding to the string in real time. A problem: it becomes tricky to know when a word will wrap onto the next line (if you just add to the string, eventually the last word on a line will pop into the next line – distracting for readers).

But with the new TextMeshProUGUI object, you can actually control the colour of individual letters. This allows you to pop in one letter at a time, like you described, but even more interesting things, like fading in one word at a time.

I came here looking for a solution to the awkward word-wrapping!
That’s so simple and brilliant! Thank you!

[Tioboon]

You can use this base script:

GitHub - Tioboon/LogWritter: This script let you create events to write letter...