How to create animating text?

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#1

how do we create text that one letter appears every second? nothing is working because i pasted in the function

Module

local w = {}


function w.WriteLine(Message, Title)
	for i = 1,#Message,1 do
		wait(0.05)
		Message.Text = string.sub(Message,1,i)
	end
end



return w

Local Client

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')
local Modules = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild('Modules')
local ModuleScripts = Modules:WaitForChild('ModuleScripts')

local LineWriter = require(ModuleScripts:WaitForChild('LineWriter'))

LineWriter.WriteLine('This is your first message, write it down here')
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#2

If you want it to make a letter every second you can change the wait(0.05) to wait(1).

#3

no the code isnt working 30charactrer

#4

Is there an error? You have to explain what about the code isn’t working.

#5

It looks like you’re trying to use string operations on the label (Message) instead of its text (Message.Text) on both of these lines.

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#6

In your Module, you are expecting Message to be a string and TextLabel at the same time, which simply isn’t possible :sweat_smile:. You should write the function w.WriteLine again, but with perhaps some better argument names so that it’s easier to distinguish what is what :slight_smile:

Here's what you did 
function w.WriteLine(Message, Title)
    -- "Message" is a string, "Title" is not used
    
	for i = 1,#Message,1 do
		wait(0.05)
		-- You're attempting to update the property "Text" of "Message",
		-- which doesn't exist. You also use string.sub(Message) on a TextLabel,
		-- which doesn't work either. We see what you're trying to do, though
                -- so that's cool!
		Message.Text = string.sub(Message,1,i)
	end
end

For example:

-- // Added "delay", it might come in handy ;)
function w.WriteLine (textLabel, text, delay)
    for index = 1, #text do
        textLabel.Text = text:sub(1, index);
        wait(delay);
    end
end

But, this function may “fail” in the future if you’re attempting to update the text label while something else is already doing it, check out this thread for a proper method: Halting a text writing mechanism - #8 by WoolHat

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#7

amma good with this? no?

local w = {}

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local PlayerGui = Player:WaitForChild('PlayerGui')
local StoryMenu = PlayerGui.MainGui.Main:WaitForChild('StoryMenu')
local Backpack = PlayerGui.MainGui.Main:WaitForChild('Backpack')


local function SetUpStoryBoard(visi)
	if visi then
		StoryMenu:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0,1, 0), 'InOut', 'Sine', 0.2)
		Backpack:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.499, 0,1.11, 0), 'Out', 'Quad', .1)
	end
	if not visi then
		StoryMenu:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0,1.127, 0), 'Out', 'Sine', 0.2)
		Backpack:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.499, 0,1, 0), 'Out', 'Quad', .1)
	end
end



function w.WriteLine(title, text, delay)
	SetUpStoryBoard(true)
	StoryMenu.Title.Text = title
    for index = 1, #text do
       StoryMenu.Message.Text = text:sub(1, index)
        wait(delay)
    end
   wait(1)
   SetUpStoryBoard(false)
end



return w
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