TextMesh Pro New <gradient> Rich Text Tag

Added a new rich text tag <gradient> </gradient> which makes it possible to assign a Color Gradient Preset on the text enclosed between those two tags.

The format for the tag is as follow: <gradient="Name of Color Gradient Preset">Some text</gradient>

Since these Color Gradient Presets will need to be loaded at runtime and similar to other TMP assets, these have to be located within a Resources folder. The specific location within Resources folders can be defined in the TMP Settings file.

Here is an example using this new tag.



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Please note <gradient> tags can also be nested like many other tags in TMP.

This new feature will be in the next release of TMP which should be available later tonight. You will find direct links to download these new releases in the top sticky post in the Unity UI & TextMesh Pro section of the user forum. These releases will also be available thru the asset store within the next few days. As usual be sure to read the Release and Upgrade notes and to always back up your project before upgrading to new releases.

 

Always cool to see nice updates & improvements to this cool asset / part of Unity

 

Possible to get this to work with sprites?
Thank you!

 

I just made the change where the <gradient> tag will also color the sprites provided the tint attribute is set to 1 as per the example below.

A <gradient="Yellow to Orange - Vertical"><sprite="DropCap Numbers" index=0 tint=1> <sprite="DropCap Numbers" index=0 tint=0></gradient> B



This change will be in the next release of the TMP UPM package for Unity 2018.1.

 

I was just playing with the gradient setting.
It seems to be a per letter gradient, but is there a way to get it to be a gradient over the entire word? So that it goes from left to right and changes colors. Also, I noticed the gradient doesn't seem to affect the underline, which is still white. Is there a way to apply that to the underline?

 

Solved this just using a material with a square gradient made in photoshop.

 

Feature request noted in regards to both having the gradient tag apply to the characters enclosed in the tag and better handling for the underline.

 

This was at the top of Google: If you're reading this, you probably expected this link, instead:

http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/color-gradients/

 

KING THANKS
you saved my time...