Text Animator for Unity lets you bring your dialogues to life, animating your game texts with in a few steps.
You can use a powerful typewriter, apply multiple effects to your letters and way more, all based on the plugin TextMeshPro (available for free in the Unity Package Manager).
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(Be sure to read the Requirements & Limitations page).
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Description
✅ 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 effects.
- Call Events from text and perform any action, like waiting for a cutscene to end before p.
- 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.
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!