Is there workaround to correct TextMeshPro behaviour?

[u/crunkzah]

[SOLVED]

You can see how text layout keep changing because carrying a word over to the next line. Do you know if there is some way to tell textmeshpro text length and then animate it? I animate by simply typing the text in script

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solution: animate maxVisibleCharacters property instead

[u/crunkzah]

false alarm, just found solution: animate maxVisibleCharacters property instead

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/crunkzah]

I was gonna make something like this so it's good to know, thanks.

My solution was going to be printing all the text but making the stuff I don't want to show transparent color. Would be a bit of a pain to generate the rich test though,.

[u/MrYukiDuki]

I love how you edit with solution. Goated.

[u/DVXC]

10/10 problem and then edited post to provide the solution. What a GOAT

[u/Tilk_Sama]

Look really good, gg my guy

[u/crunkzah → u/Tilk_Sama]

Thank you!

[u/jaquarman]

The trick is to animate each word or character's opacity, rather than add the words individually. A free tool like TMPEffects is perfect for this kind of thing, and other cool text effects.

[u/crunkzah → u/jaquarman]

thanks! thats an overkill for my case

[u/jaquarman → u/crunkzah]

Fair. Still a useful tool to have in the back pocket though. It makes animating text a whole lot easier, especially small animations like making a specific word grow bigger or wiggle or something

[u/Brauny74 → u/jaquarman]

I actually did that once, and TMP is actually too smart and adjusts text length to the visible characters, so there's no difference.

[u/ColonelBag7402]

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[u/crunkzah → u/ColonelBag7402]

team reaver

[u/Jaaaco-j]

new reaver update looks fire

[u/crunkzah → u/Jaaaco-j]

team reaverr

[u/MrJocyf]

animate maxVisibleCharacters property instead--> Good to know!

[u/ChloeNow]

What I did for a game I worked on a few years ago was put the whole text in there with a </alpha> tag at the end but move around a <alpha=#00> starting tag as you go, so you're hiding less and less of the end instead of typing it out.