Scrolling text in a TextLabel

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#1

I am trying to make a scrolling textlabel, so that the text scrolls and shows the train’s destination.

The script:

local images = {script.Parent}

while wait() do 
	for _,v in pairs(images) do
		local temp = v.Position.X.Scale
		if (temp <= -v.Size.X.Scale) then
			temp = 1.0
		end
		v.Position = UDim2.new(temp - 0.01, 0, 0, 0)
	end
end

What the TextLabel looks like in Studio mode:
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What it looks like in Playtest mode:

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Help with sliding/animated text
#2

How have you done the textbox?

Or is it done as one block on a frame?

Can you show me a pic of the Explorer tab of how youve done the gui, etc…

I think I know your problem.

#3

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#4

There is your problem. You have put all the Guis into one part. And you have added a scrolling part of which has overlapped the other guis. So, Seperate the parts into their rows. This should solve your problem.

#5

How can I make it stop before the “Calling at:”?

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#6

How can I also stop when it gets to the last letter and not the first?

#7

Ib that case you have to separate the Calling at and Ashford road scrolling and adjust the part if which holds the scrolling text as a barrier for when it reaches the Calling at.

#8

Do you mean different levels of text (drop text), perhaps something like this?

Name -
Text -
Etc...

If so, then in your script you should add a \n in between your text so that the text drops down to a new level/sentence.

#9

I want to make the Calling at: stay still but the stations fade out when they reach Calling at. I want it to keep scrolling until the last station has been seen

#10

You can concatenate the text you want to display into a string, and only display a substring with fixed characters with increasing starting index. The other option is to make scrolling text a text label under a frame with ClipsDescendants. If you care about localization it might be more compatible to use the second option.
I have an example place that includes both of the options.
scrollingText.rbxl (45.8 KB)

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#11

Is there a way to make it stop after it has cycled once?

#12

You can do it by tweening ScrollingTextLabel’s position from UDim2.fromScale(1, 0) to UDim2.fromScale(-ScrollText.AbsoluteSize.X/parentClipFrame.AbsoluteSize.X, 0) once.

#13

How can I do that? I’m not a very good scripter.

#14

I published the model here that supports loop/wrap configuration:

You can check the sample usage here:
SampleUsage.rbxl (36.4 KB)
There is a script called ExampleUsage in ServerScriptService

For your use case, you want to scroll the text once and stop by changing its position from 1 to -scale with small lerps in between. My implementation has extra code for other minor edge cases.