Custom Dialogue Text

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#1

Ok, so here’s what I’m stuck on.

Let’s say you create a dialogue GUI.

And you have it say, Welcome to my land!

My goal is to get the word “land” to be in a different color. Idk if this is possible, but if you know how, or where to start let me know! Ty

#2

you currently cannot do it with a single TextLabel, you’d need another separate for the word land

the easiest method to do it is with TextService:GetTextSize(), you can look it up here:
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/TextService/GetTextSize

i’ve worked on this a while back, you can check out my module here:

local text = {}

local ttt = false
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local ts = game:GetService("TextService")
local ss,ssb,ssi,sssb = Enum.Font.SourceSans,Enum.Font.SourceSansBold,Enum.Font.SourceSansItalic,Enum.Font.SourceSansSemibold

function text:newtext(str)
	
	wait()
	if ttt == true then player.PlayerGui.Text:Destroy() ttt = false end
	
	ttt = true
	
	--Turning the string into a list
	
	local function list(s)
		local t = {}
		local h = string.gsub(s,"<.-/.->",function (w) return "|"..w.."|" end	) h = "|"..h.."|"
		for word in string.gmatch(h,"([^|]*)") do if word ~= "" then table.insert(t,#t+1,word) end end
		return t
	end
	
	local t = list(str)
	------------------------
	local z = {} --Turning list into detailed list
	
	for k,v in pairs(t) do
		local f = string.match(v,"<(%P-)>") or "n"
		local r = string.match(v,">(.-)<") or v
		local a = {r,f}
		
		if f == "n" then table.insert(a,3,ss)
		elseif f == "b" then table.insert(a,3,ssb)
		elseif f == "i" then table.insert(a,3,ssi)
		elseif f:sub(1,6) == "color " then table.insert(a,3,sssb)
		end
		
		table.insert(z,k,a)
	end
	
	--Setup for the text
	
	local GUI = Instance.new("ScreenGui",player.PlayerGui)
	GUI.Name = "Text"
	
	local x,y = 0,0
	
	for k,v in pairs(z) do
		local s = ts:GetTextSize(v[1],28,v[3],Vector2.new(math.huge,math.huge))
		table.insert(v,4,x) table.insert(v,5,s.X)
		if k == 1 then y = s.Y end
		x = x + s.X
	end
	
	local frame = Instance.new("Frame",GUI)
	frame.BackgroundTransparency = 1
	frame.BorderSizePixel = 0
	frame.ClipsDescendants = false
	frame.Size = UDim2.new(0,x,0,y)
	frame.Position = UDim2.new(.5,-x/2,.8,-y/2)
	
	for k,v in pairs(z) do
		local TextLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel",frame)
		TextLabel.TextSize = 28
		TextLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
		TextLabel.BorderSizePixel = 0
		TextLabel.Name = k
		TextLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
		TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3 = Color3.new()
		TextLabel.Text = ""
		TextLabel.TextXAlignment = Enum.TextXAlignment.Left
		
		TextLabel.Font = v[3]
		TextLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0,v[5],0,TextLabel.TextSize)
		TextLabel.Position = UDim2.new(0,v[4],0,0)
		if v[2]:sub(1,6) == "color " then
			local c1,c2,c3 = tonumber("0x"..v[2]:sub(7,8)),tonumber("0x"..v[2]:sub(9,10)),tonumber("0x"..v[2]:sub(11,12))
			TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(c1,c2,c3)
		else
			TextLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
		end
		table.insert(v,6,TextLabel)
	end
	
	--Text appearing
	
	local len = str:len()
	
	for k,v in pairs(z) do
		local TextLabel = v[6]
		for i = 1,v[1]:len() do
			TextLabel.Text = v[1]:sub(1,i)
			if v[1]:sub(i,i) == "." then wait(.4) elseif v[1]:sub(i,i) == "," then wait(.2) else wait() end
		end
	end
end

function text:close()
	if ttt == true then player.PlayerGui.Text:Destroy() ttt = false end
end

return text

there’s not much context but hopefully it’ll give you a bit of insight(maybe?)
i just tested it and it still works, just require it with a LocalScript and run Module:newtext(str)

#3

Ok, thank you! (30 dumb chars)