So I’ve been playing two games recently that have a really cool dialogue system that I’ve been trying copy for a while, I tried a couple of things to get this effect bu none of them worked and honestly i have no clue how they do this and I’m hoping to get some help from this forum post
clip:
https://gyazo.com/0e2731034362385bb4b0404e452796ab
credit: Demonfist
You can create individual text labels for each letter then move them into place.
Here is how I would implement it.
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService") -- TweenService for tweening
-- Variables to reference our UI
local UI = script.Parent
local Frame = UI.Frame
-- predefined configuration options
local LABEL_SIZE = UDim2.new(1 / 50, 0, 1 / 5, 0) -- The size of each letter
local LABEL_OFFSET = UDim2.new(0, 0, -1 / 5, 0) -- The offset the letter has from where it will end up. We spawn it slightly higher so we can animate it downwards.
local LABEL_FLOAT_TIME_SECONDS = 1 / 10 -- The time the label will be floating into its position.
local LABEL_TWEENINFO = TweenInfo.new(LABEL_FLOAT_TIME_SECONDS, 0, 0) -- The tweeninfo for constructing the tween later in the code.
local CHARACTERS_PER_SECOND = 10 -- how many characters appear each second.
-- the range of this value is (0, 30] because of the limitations of wait() and division by 0
local function RenderText(Text)
local X = 0 -- keep track of the X position of each label.
local Y = 0 -- keep track of the Y position of each label.
for Char in Text:gmatch(".") do -- gmatch creates and returns an iterator function for the given pattern.
-- the "." pattern represents every character so it will return each character per iteration.
local Label = Instance.new("TextLabel") -- construct new label
Label.BackgroundTransparency = 1
Label.Text = Char
Label.Size = LABEL_SIZE -- set its size to our predefined size
Label.Position = UDim2.new(X * LABEL_SIZE.X.Scale, 0, Y * LABEL_SIZE.Y.Scale, 0) + LABEL_OFFSET -- set the position to be its goal position + offset position
Label.Parent = Frame
local Tween = TweenService:Create(Label, LABEL_TWEENINFO, { -- tween it to the goal position
Position = Label.Position - LABEL_OFFSET
})
Tween:Play()
-- update the x position
X = X + 1
-- check if (x + 1) * the size is > 1. Scale is a property that usually ranges from [0, 1].
-- if the next value would be > 1 that means it would stick outside of the text box.
-- we do this code below for text wrapping
if ((X + 1) * LABEL_SIZE.X.Scale > 1) then
Y = Y + 1 -- update y position if needed
X = 0 -- reset x position
end
-- wait
wait(1 / CHARACTERS_PER_SECOND)
end
end
RenderText("this is super epic just like nyan cat! i think im going to go eat some waffles now :3")
Can you explain the script if you dont mind, especially the numbers its all just confusing numbers that I cant wrap my head around
I’ve edited my original post to have some comments every line.
Sorry this is off topic but what’s the music called its so cool lol
Caramelldansen by Caramella Girls
