TextMesh Pro Wave Example

Can someone please direct me towards the CharacterColorizer.cs script seen in this example? It doesn't seem to be included with the asset. I only need to know how to make waves, but would be cool to have access to the other vertex animation examples from the video as well!

Thank you.

 

Included in the TextMesh Pro/Examples & Extras/Scripts is the VertexColorCycler.cs script and a few other like VertexJitter that provide good examples of how to manipulate the vertex attributes.

I have attached the old script that was used in those examples. This script will not work anymore since too many thing have changed since then but you should be able to look at how the wave was implemented and adapt it to the newer implementation used in examples like VertexJitter.cs

 

Thanks Stephan! I'm sure it will still be of some use.

 

Hey @Graham-B, did you update this script to work with the newer version of TextMeshPro?
It looks like a really useful script.

 

No @FeastSC2 I never did. I ended up using an alternative text mesh asset.

 

You should be able to revise the script to adapt it to the newer implementation. Look at the scripts included in the TMP Examples & Extras.



When I have time, I can take a look at updating the old script and adding it in some example.

 

Yes I saw those examples in the extras, that's what got me interested in all this.

Cool, that would be awesome! Thanks Stephan, I can wait that you do this,, much appreciated
Very impressed by TextMeshPro by the way. Must be a lot of work to have made it!

 

@Stephan_B
Hey Stephan, I used the VertexJitter script some to test it out, I had some weird stuff happening.

I have a textmeshpro to show the dialog in my game, after engaging the first time in a dialog some text mesh remains and is not being cleaned up when using the VertexJitter script.

Here's a gif showing what happens (first time I talk to NPC, no problem, watch the second I talk to him, there's a text mesh left over that doesn't get cleaned up).
https://giphy.com/gifs/WRLeU0c51Azj6uqLbS


A picture showing the problem:

 

For anyone interested, or wanting to further work on this - here is a modified version of the VertexAttributeModifier.cs that works with 2019 TextMeshPro components. It doesn't update during run time - but seems to do the trick

 

Thanks, you are my savior!

 

VertexAttributeModifier for TextMeshProUGI component is not helping, and I tried with warptextexample.cs but not able to loop animation.
Any help to loop animation.

thanks in advance.

 

@Stephan_B Are you still supporting these scripts for 2019.2 \ 2019.3 or have you moved onto other projects ?

Thanks

 

I have made an update to the script:
- added 2 effects (ShakeA and ShakeB)
- Animation works both on UI and on 3D texts.
- You can stop/start the text animation.

Here are the problems remaining with this script:
- When used on UI, if your text uses multiple fonts (because it's missing characters in the primary font) then some mesh objects might remain.
- the Warp AnimationMode does nothing.
- the ShakeA and ShakeB don't really play nice when changing the text.
- the effects don't look very good except for Wave when the text is slowly being revealed letter per letter.

PS: Remove the "using using Sirenix.OdinInspector;" on the very top of the script to make it work.