Ok basically I need like a small text at the bottom that I can set to say whatever I want and it does a typewriting effect but also shakes. The typewriting part should be easy and I found some tutorials on how to make the text shake, the main problem I’m having is:
I don’t know how can I change the text. Like I managed to add a typewriting effect to the shaking (just a simple wait before creating a new TextLabel) but I can’t change the text later. I tried a lot of things but none of them worked.
I basically just need a function that I can call and if I add any text it does the effects. I hope someone can help me with this
You can just start the effect while creating each text label.
Here’s an example of what you could do:
local textDisplayed = true
--I don’t know what loop you’ll use here
--Your code for creating the text label
task.spawn(function()
while textDisplayed == true do
--Put code here for the shaking effect
end
end)
end
task.wait(whateverTime)
textDisplayed = false
local text = "IM STARVING"
TextFont = Enum.Font.Arcade
TextFontSize = 30
TextSize = game.TextService:GetTextSize(text, TextFontSize, TextFont, Vector2.new(10000,10000))
SpaceAmount = 1.3 -- 1 is the base, with no spacing
TextHolderFrame = Instance.new("Frame")
TextHolderFrame.Parent = script.Parent
TextHolderFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0.5,0,0.5,0)
TextHolderFrame.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5,0.5)
TextHolderFrame.BackgroundTransparency = 1
TextHolderFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,255,255)
TextHolderFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
TextHolderFrame.Name = "TextHolderFrame"
TextHolderFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0,TextSize.X * SpaceAmount,0,TextSize.Y)
for i = 1, #text do --loop through every character in the text string
CharacterLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
CharacterLabel.ZIndex = 2
CharacterLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
CharacterLabel.Font = TextFont
CharacterLabel.TextSize = TextFontSize
CharacterLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0,TextSize.X/#text, 0, TextSize.Y) --set the size, based on what GetTextSize returns
CharacterLabel.Position = UDim2.new(0, ((TextSize.X/#text) * i * SpaceAmount) - TextSize.X/#text/2, 0.5, 0) --calculate the position, by multiplying the size of one character, by the current character index we are on. The Scale values are just to position the text in this middle of the TextHolderFrame, which we will be parenting this label to shortly.
CharacterLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5,0.5)
CharacterLabel.Text = string.sub(text, i, i) --grab just the character we need from the string
CharacterLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,0,0)
CharacterLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
CharacterLabel.TextStrokeColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0)
CharacterLabel.Parent = TextHolderFrame
wait(.1)
end
--To make the individual TextLabels shake, you can do something like this:
CharacterLabels = script.Parent.TextHolderFrame:GetChildren()
Shake = true
while Shake == true do
for _, Label in pairs(CharacterLabels) do -- loop through the CharacterLabels one by one
Label.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(math.random(4.5, 5.5)/10, math.random(4.5, 5.5)/10) --I'm using AnchorPoint instead of Position so we can maintain the original Position
end
wait(0.05)
end
Found it on another devforum post and it works, main problem, I need it as a function but I can’t think of a way to do it, I already tried but it just didn’t work.
local text = "IM STARVING"
TextFont = Enum.Font.Arcade
TextFontSize = 30
local function WriteText(text,TextFont,TextFontSize,Frame)
TextSize = game.TextService:GetTextSize(text, TextFontSize, TextFont, Vector2.new(10000,10000))
SpaceAmount = 1.3 -- 1 is the base, with no spacing
TextHolderFrame = Instance.new("Frame")
TextHolderFrame.Parent = script.Parent
TextHolderFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0.5,0,0.5,0)
TextHolderFrame.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5,0.5)
TextHolderFrame.BackgroundTransparency = 1
TextHolderFrame.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,255,255)
TextHolderFrame.BorderSizePixel = 0
TextHolderFrame.Name = "TextHolderFrame"
TextHolderFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0,TextSize.X * SpaceAmount,0,TextSize.Y)
for i = 1, #text do --loop through every character in the text string
CharacterLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
CharacterLabel.ZIndex = 2
CharacterLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
CharacterLabel.Font = TextFont
CharacterLabel.TextSize = TextFontSize
CharacterLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0,TextSize.X/#text, 0, TextSize.Y) --set the size, based on what GetTextSize returns
CharacterLabel.Position = UDim2.new(0, ((TextSize.X/#text) * i * SpaceAmount) - TextSize.X/#text/2, 0.5, 0) --calculate the position, by multiplying the size of one character, by the current character index we are on. The Scale values are just to position the text in this middle of the TextHolderFrame, which we will be parenting this label to shortly.
CharacterLabel.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5,0.5)
CharacterLabel.Text = string.sub(text, i, i) --grab just the character we need from the string
CharacterLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,0,0)
CharacterLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
CharacterLabel.TextStrokeColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0)
CharacterLabel.Parent = TextHolderFrame
wait(.1)
end
CharacterLabels = script.Parent.TextHolderFrame:GetChildren()
Shake = true
coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
while Shake == true do
for _, Label in pairs(CharacterLabels) do -- loop through the CharacterLabels one by one
Label.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(math.random(4.5, 5.5)/10, math.random(4.5, 5.5)/10) --I'm using AnchorPoint instead of Position so we can maintain the original Position
end
wait(0.05)
end
end))
end
