Splitting the Username/Display Name string

[DevYeetaludedus]

Hello Everyone! I need help with this typewriter effect where I split the string of a username/display name
My Current Code (very aware this doesnt work, from an old project):

for i = 1,string.len("Display Name:") do
		local letterofPlrDisplayName = string.sub(game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName,i)
		table.insert(displayNameSplit1,letterofPlrDisplayName)
	end

it produces this…not what i want
Help appreciated, thank you!

[Mr_Spokes]

Just wondering if this is in a textbox, label, or button. If it is, then you can use the texttruncate property

[DevYeetaludedus]

its a label. never used this TextTruncate thing before, how does it work?

[Mr_Spokes]

If i’m correct, you can just set the text of the textlabel to whatever you want, and then do a script sort of like this:

local label = --your textLabel
local name = --player name or whatever text

for index = 1, string.len(textLabel) do
      label.textTruncate += 1
      task.wait(0.1) --effect time
end

Sorry if this has errors; I was making it pretty fast. Hopefully this should give you a basis.

For textTruncate, it should just completely cut off your text at the provided index

Edit: NOT textTruncate, the correct property is MaxVisibleGraphenes

[Mr_Spokes]

I’ve created the effect in studio with this script:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local label = script.Parent.TextLabel

label.Text = player.Name

task.wait(5)
for index = 1, string.len(player.Name) do
	label.MaxVisibleGraphemes += 1
	task.wait(0.05)
end

Just so you know, the textLabel already has MaxVisibleGraphemes set to 0 and this is a LocalScript inside of the screenGui containing the textLabel in question.

[DevYeetaludedus]

Seem to be having issues

displayname.Text = displayname.Text.." "..game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName -- by default displayname is "Display Name:"
for i=1, (string.len(game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName) + string.len("Display Name:")) do
		displayname.MaxVisibleGraphemes += 1
		task.wait(0.1)
	end

results:
edit: yes, the max visible graphemes is set to 0

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

The issue is likely arising because of the gap between display name and the actual display name

It looks to be about 2 spaces long, which is the same number of characters that the typewriter is off by.

Try this code instead:

displayname.Text = "Display Name: " ..game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName -- by default displayname is "Display Name:"
for i=1, #displayname.Text do
	displayname.MaxVisibleGraphemes = i
	task.wait(0.1)
end

It’s very similar to what Mr_Spokes has been doing, but just written slightly differently to prevent issues.

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

local text = "Display Name: "..game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName
local current = ""
for i = 1, text:len() do
	local letter = text:sub(i, i)
	current ..= letter 
	print(current)
	task.wait(1)
end

Is that what you’re trying to do?

[DevYeetaludedus]

@SeargentAUS

displayname.Text = "Display Name: " ..game.Players.LocalPlayer.DisplayName -- by default displayname is "Display Name:"
for i=1, #displayname.Text do
	displayname.MaxVisibleGraphemes = i
	task.wait(0.1)
end

Seems to work, I guess i just added an extra space or something?

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

Yeah, I think you added an additional space ontop of one that was already in the textbox, without accounting for either in the code.