So I'm making an interaction system.. And this happened!

[Wyzloc]

So I ran into a dilemma, when I was working on this interaction system I got to the point where I want to display the message from the beginning to the end character.

e.g

message = "Hello, my name is bob"
-- Display on a gui from "Hello" to "bob"

Can someone break it down from the beginning so I know how to script this?

[DavidNet22 (Dvd)]

Here’s all you need to know:

Dialog | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

If that solves your problem, mark it as solution.

[kylerzong]

Are you looking for a typewriter effect?

[wevetments]

This new property for text objects in beta allows you to achieve the effect you mentioned:

@Wyzloc

display the message from the beginning to the end character

Take note that this will not work in live games yet as it is still in beta, but you may try it out via studio beta channel.

@0xabcdef1234

Code example

local function removeTags(str)
	-- replace line break tags (otherwise grapheme loop will miss those linebreak characters)
	str = str:gsub("<br%s*/>", "\n")
	return (str:gsub("<[^<>]->", ""))
end

local displayText = removeTags(script.Parent.LocalizedText)

local index = 0
for first, last in utf8.graphemes(displayText) do 
	local grapheme = displayText:sub(first, last) 
	index += 1
	-- Uncomment this statement to get a reveal effect that ignores spaces.
	-- if grapheme ~= " " then
		script.Parent.MaxVisibleGraphemes = index
		wait()
	-- end
end

[rdmpted]

local message = "Hello, my name is bob"

local text = ""

for i = 1, #message do -- runs to the length of the string

wait(0.04) -- so its not instant

text = string.sub(message, 1, i) -- string.sub(string s, start, end), i will continuously increase until it reaches the end of the string

print(text) -- print it in the output, or do whatever you want to do with it

end

[Wyzloc]

local XPos = 0
local YPos = 0
function typeLetter(Letter)
	local TL = script:WaitForChild("Letter"):Clone()
	TL.Text = Letter
	TL.Position = UDim2.new(XPos, 0, YPos - 0.1, 0)
	TL.Parent = script.Parent:WaitForChild("DescFrame")
	TL:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(XPos,0,YPos,0),"Out", "Quad", .1, true)
	XPos = XPos + .025
	if XPos > .95 then
		YPos = YPos + .4
		XPos = 0
	end
	if Letter == "." or Letter == "!" or Letter == "?" then
		wait(.5)
	end
end

local Message = "Come back when you're done."
local text = ""
for i = 1, #Message do -- runs to the length of the string
	wait(0.04) -- so its not instant
	text = string.sub(Message, i, i)
	typeLetter(text)
end

So this is my first time making a typewriter script. I decided to do it a little bit differently, because I saw a pretty cool reference. The texts kind of overlap eachother a bit. Anyone know a fix to this?

Combat Scripting - Roblox Studio (gyazo.com)

[RipPBB_TUD (testing001)]

I think it might have to do with the font, or possibly the positioning?

[Wyzloc]

Yeah, the problem isn’t knowing what it is though. I just don’t know what to do, because I’ve never done this before. I searched up textsize, but that didn’t help. It always turns out like this.