Here’s a list of all built-in effects ready to use in your games.

You can also create your own effects:


Behaviors

Behavior Effects animate letters continuously during time, after the letter has been shown.

You can also use Modifiers, which let you change the characteristics of your Behavior effects individually. (Read more here)

Useful links:

Pendulum
Tag: <pend>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: a, f, w
Dangle
Tag: <dangle>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, f, w
Fade
Tag: <fade>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: d
Rainbow
Tag: <rainb>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: f, w
Rotate
Tag: <rot>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: f, w
Bounce
Tag: <bounce>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, f, w
Slide
Tag: <slide>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, f, w
Swing
Tag: <swing>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: a, f, w
Wave
Tag: <wave>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, f, w
Increase Size
Tag: <incr>
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: a, f, w
Shake
Tag: <shake>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, d
Wiggle
Tag: <wiggle>
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, f
  • Modifiers glossary:
    • a: amplitude (effect’s strength)
    • f: frequency (speed)
    • w: wave size (how uniform is the effect applied to letters)
    • d: delay

  • Tag: represents the effect tag, unique in its category (eg. <shake>)
  • Different with size: true if the effect results differently based on different sizes and fonts.(Read more here).

Appearances and Disappearances

Appearance Effects animate letters only when they’re appearing on screen, while Disappearance Effects make them dynamically disappear. For this reason, they’re mostly used in combination with the typewriter, which shows/hides letters one after another.

Reminder: you can set default Appearance and Disappearance Effects in the TextAnimator component, without having to write Appearance Effects tags in each text. Read more here.

Useful links:

Rotating
Tag: rot
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: a, d
Diagonal Expand
Tag: diagexp
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: bot, d
Horizontal Expand
Tag: horiexp
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: d, x
Vertical Expand
Tag: vertexp
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: bot, d
Offset
Tag: offset
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a, d
Fading
Tag: fade
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: d
Size
Tag: size
Different with size: ❌
Modifiers: a, d
Random Direction
Tag: rdir
Different with size: ✔️
Modifiers: a
  • Modifiers glossary:
    • a: amplitude (effect’s strength)
    • bot: bottom (if it starts from bottom or not), set it to 0 for false, and 1 for true
    • x: horizontal direction, set it to -1 (left), 0 (middle) or 1 (right)
    • d: duration