Add effects to your texts

Categories Overview

Effects are divided in three categories, based on their functionality/application. They consist of:

How to Apply Effects

You can set different effects to your text in two main ways:

• Set default effects to the entire text (inspector)

• Set effects to specific parts of the text (rich text tags)

Set default effects to the entire text

You can set which effect(s) will be applied to all letters by default in the TextAnimator node, without having to write effects tags for every text.

1. Head over to the TextAnimator node and visit the "Default Tags" section

1. Expand the effect’s category you want to edit

2. Add any effect tag you want to include, example:

Set effects to specific parts of the text

You can apply effects to specific parts of your text by using rich text tags, overriding the default ones (if any "Fallback" is present).

The effects tag will look like this:

• Behaviors: <tag> to open, </tag> to close

• Appearances: {tag} to open, {/tag} to close

Example 1: Simple Effect

Example: “I'm cold” can be written as “I'm <shake>cold</shake>” (in the text component) in order to apply a shaking behavior effect on the specific word “cold”.

Example 2: Fallbacks

Let's say that we have one default effect ("size"), but we want to apply a specific part of the text with the "fade" effect. We can achieve that result by writing: "default default `{fade}` fade fade fade `{/fade}` default default"

As you can see, the letters that are outside the "fade" tags will have the default effect(s) applied, while the part inside "{fade}" and "{/fade}" will only have "fade".

Extra notes about Rich Text formatting

By using TextAnimator for Godot:

• 👍 You can stack multiple effects together (e.g. “<shake><size>”).

• 👍 You can close all currently opened effects with a single ‘/’ character, like:

  • ”</>” for Behavior Effects

  • ”{/}” for Appearance Effects

• 👍 There is no need to close tags if you’re at the end of the text, since Text Animator starts applying effect from the moment you open a tag. (e.g. "<shake>hello" will result in hello already animating).

Skipping tag parsing

In some cases you want to show a Text Animation Tag without it getting parsed. To do so you can use the "<noparse>" tag, which tells TextAnimator to skip elaborating a specific portion of your text and paste it directly as is.

Using Godot's built-in BBCodes

To use bbcodes select your RichTextLabel and in the inspector, check the BBCodeEnabled flag.