Text Animator for Unity [Legacy]

[!!] Text Animator 2.X is OUT! It's a major upgrade, so in order to download it you need to visit its related page in the Asset Store and unlock the new one. Read how to update. Thanks!

--- Version 1.X ---

• 📝 Documentation: learn everthing about Text Animator and feel comfortable even before getting it.
• 📺 Showcase: watch the first episodes of "Games using Text Animator for Unity", and submit yours for future ones.
• 👍🏻 Requirements: read its requirements and learn exactly what you can do.
• 📧 Contact me: for any question or support request.

Features:

• Quick to set up (as fast as adding two components).
• Create your own effects from the Inspector or C#.
• 15+ built-in effects ready to use.
• Supports multiple effects, stackable on the same letters.
• Requires TextMeshPro *, supporting its emotes, alignments and custom fonts.
• Show and hide the text dynamically (like a typewriter), with different appearance and disappearance effects, from any direction and with custom speeds.
• Call Events from text and perform any action.
• Supports external Dialogue Systems and Plugins (some already integrated!).
• Short, detailed and easy to read Documentation.

*30 TextMeshPro's tags are compatible. Read the limitations page for more.

Supports many platforms, like:

• Desktop (Windows, iMac)
• Console (including Nintendo Switch, XBOX and PlayStation)
• Mobile (including iOs and Android)
• WebGL (e.g. when uploading on Itch.io)
• Including IL2CPP platforms

Integrations:

• Dialogue System for Unity
• PlayMaker
• Yarn Spinner
• Naninovel (partial)
• Ink
• Unity Visual Scripting (formerly "Bolt")

You can also integrate your own Dialogue Systems and Plugins! (some are already planned in the future!). Take a look at the documentation for more.

Typewriter:

• Show and hide text dynamically with multiple appearance effects.
• Trigger events when a word/letter has been shown.
• Play sounds for each letter.
• Waits multiple pauses for specific characters (like puntuactions).
• Via tags, waits for X seconds or for player input.
• Increase or decrease its speed while typing.
• Skip the typewriter and show the entire text on player input.

For Programmers:

• Includes C# Source code.

Extra:

• Public Roadmap available
• Multiple Example scenes for each use case

Have fun!

Release Notes

Last update for 1.X! The asset is now updating to 2.X, a Major Upgrade that requires you to download it from a different store page. Please read the full documentation for details on how to switch to the new version. Thanks!