How would you achieve a fading in typewriter effect?

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#1

I wasn’t sure whether to put this in scripting support or art design support as it deals with both.

I was wondering how it is possible to get an effect where the text would write itself out and also smoothly fade in at the same time. I’m sure many of you have already seen this type of effect being used in Egg Hunt 2018. I have also tried searching around for a way to do this but I haven’t had any luck.

Here’s an example taken from the game’s dialogue itself:

I haven’t actually tried anything yet, but I came up with the assumption that there are multiple text labels which have their text transparency faded in, I’m not sure though. Would be appreciated if I could get some answers to this.

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#2

here ya go Animating text

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#3

This isn’t exactly what I meant. The individual text characters should be fading in, not just suddenly appearing.

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#4

You may also be able to use a UIGradient on TextLabels.

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#5

Hmm i think you can probably make a text label and just edit its transparency using code.

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#6

You could probably achieve an effect like that by using both the uigradient and the typewriter effect.

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#7

I know this seems efficient but I still want to try to find the exact method that the Egg Hunt 2018 game specifically used, sorry for not specifying. UIGradients did not exist at the time so the developers did not use that.

This wouldn’t work either because the text label transparency controls the transparency of all the characters in the text.

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#8

In that case, as you figured, it’s multiple TextLabels for each character which are faded in using TextTransparency.

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#9

Well this is gonna take a while

#10

This probably makes the most sense now that I think about it. I’ll just mark this as the solution.

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