Post by KaiClavier in Not able to make animated text

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In the top-right corner of any Super Text Mesh inspector window, click the [T] icon to open the Text Data Inspector, and in there you can see all of the included animations, and make new ones! I'm guessing you already know about this since you made your own color data, but it's worth mentioning, anyway.

As for why it's not animating, there's a chance that you may have encountered an import error, make sure to import all the default assets, and then in that Text Data Inspector window, click the "Refresh Database" button at the bottom.

In this window, also ensure that under the "master" foldout, that "disable animated text" is false. There's a variable for this on every Super Text Mesh object, too, under the "Timing" foldout.

Additionally, make sure your text has "ignore time scale" set to true, your game's timeScale value can effect animated text, too.

I find that some versions of Unity will show the mesh animating in edit mode, but does it work in play mode for you?

rangerpowerx1 day ago

My case requires a different approach since i am doing everything through code, could you accept my friend request at discord so i can show you? I am ranger there too!

KaiClavier1 day ago

Ah sorry, but by a personal policy, I only do support through emails or the forums. (Call me old-school, but my brain will split in two if I have to dig through discord channels for support cases...)

What do you mean you're trying to do everything through code? Creating new data objects, viewing which ones exist, or seeing why it's not animating...? I feel I'm not understanding the issue properly, so what exactly are you trying to do?

If you're trying to create data objects or see which ones exist, please use the Text Data inspector, or alternatively find the folders within "Assets > Clavian > SuperTextMesh > Resources" in your project to see all the data objects there. If you add/remove any data objects that way, please keep in mind you need to go into the Text Data inspector after to press the "Refresh Database" button anyway.

If you mean you're trying to create data as your project is running... someone has done that for quads before, which i will link here: https://itch.io/t/2579008/loading-quad-images-at-runtime ...But I just don't see the use for using this for effects like waves and jitters, since those go across multiple characters. You're more than welcome to try it, though!

Additionally, you can create scriptableObjects with code, save them to the appropriate folders (although personally I use Unity's AssetDatabase code for this, which will not run in a build, only in-editor!), and then call superTextMesh.data.RebuildDictionaries() to have them be usable by SuperTextMesh objects. (The quad example above bypasses this by writing the data object to a specific character as the text is reading)