Changelog
This page contains the changelog of Text Animator for Unity.!
P.S. Please always back up your projects (or better: use version control) before updating anything, even outside Text Animator. Cheers!
Latest Releases
We follow the standard major.minor.patch convention, usually releasing on the store when there's a new "minor" version directly.
3.5.0 - Stability and fixes [2026.03.03]
The plugin is now imported as a package. Please delete the previous asset folder (except for the effects) and then import the new one. This will help having new updates faster without overwriting your data!
Added
Added effects with custom pivot rotations
Added pendulum effect
Added parameter on the "Append" method to skip the previous text
Improved
The plugin is now imported as a package.
Allowed changing timing scriptable while in play mode
Improved chars and word delays drawer
Exposed chars passed time through api
Highly improved our backend so that we can ship even faster in the future!
Fixed
Fixed news panel throwing errors due to posts not present on blog
Fixed text animator not working for the first frame on enable
Fixed set visibility char method not working if invoked on the same frame
Fixed changing timing scriptable was not applied while in play mode
Fixed showing text on start was flashing full text for one frame
Fixed text animator and typewriter not working with some overflow settings
Fixed disappearing text throwing index out of bound exceptions
Improved append method implementation
Improved typewriter resuming from last visible letter instead of the first one
Fixed layout shift on first frame in some cases with content fitter or layout component
Fixed empty string throwing errors due to TMP invalid data
Fixed "textAnimator.allLettersShown" did not return true on empty string
Typewriter skipping characters/text when on low frame rate in some occasions
Improved searching TextAnimator package when entering/leaving play mode in some cases
Fixed tmpro gradients were not applied when applying effects
Fixed wiggle effect not getting applied to very first character
Fixed database context menu showing warning because it was inside generic class
Fixed waiting for last character was not skipped correctly if option was disabled
Fixed shared settings was not applying timescale
A version was jumped because of shenanigans.
3.3.0 - Dialogue System for Unity [2025.01.19]
Added
Integration guide for Dialogue System for Unity
Improved
Moved menu item paths and priorities inside a dedicated file (so that you can modify it if conflicting with other assets)
Fixed
Fixed waiting for last character was not skipped correctly
Fixed Database not refreshing on different domain reload settings
Fixed warning for Database context menu because it was inside a generic class (Unity shenanigans)
Fixed Wiggle effects not getting applied to the very first character
Fixed TMPro gradients were not preserved when applying effects
3.2.0 - Custom Rotation Pivots and Bugfixes [2025.12.18]
Added
Added effects with custom pivot rotations
Reimplemented pendulum effect, both for appearances, presistent and disappearance
[API] Exposed a character's passed time in CharacterData
Bugfix
Fixed an annoying bug that - for some users - was showing Text Animator's window after script reloads
Fixed typewriter skipping characters if the Unity Editor had a lag spike
Fixed error when the Unity Package manager was unable to find the package
3.1.1 - Yarn Spinner, Typewriter events and News panel [2025.12.03]
Added
Yarn Spinner is now officially integrated! (from version 3.1)
Added events in the inspector (Typewriter Component) when the typewriter has started and finished waiting for a character
News panel directly in the About Window, to keep tracks of new updates without having to leave the Editor
Bugfix
Fixed "waitforinput" action was not correctly serialized in the builtin Actions Databse
Fixed typewriter not starting correctly if parent object was disabled
Minor Changes
Added Documentation and License links in the package.json
Added virtual methods to do something before or after the typewriter is waiting for a character
Added custom icon for Text Animator and Typewriter components
3.0.0 - UI Toolkit Support, a new Animation Engine and much more! [2025.11.18]
Added
UI Toolkit is now supported from Unity 6.3
You can play effects only once, make them loop x times, start delayed and many other combinations thanks to "Playbacks" (both from the editor or through rich text tags)
The same effect can now be played in all occasions as an Appearance, Persistent (previously "Behavior") and Disappearance, increasing the number of effects available even more (e.g. a "wave" as an appearance, with different parameters than the "wave" as a persistent/behavior).
You can use rich text tags modifiers to set an effect parameter directly, multiply it or set a specific keyword
You can now set different curves to an effect, changing different transitions and their movement/influence over time (e.g. make a rotation seem laggy, increasing step by step).
Added more options to already existing effects, like the "expanding" and "sliding" directions
Typewriter Actions can be created as "Components" (other than Scriptable Objects) allowing you to reference scene objects more easily
Typewriter Actions now support both Coroutines and also a Stateless "tick" progression
A new typewriter action called "PlaySound": plays and waits for an Audio Source to finish before progressing the typewriter
Added many other little refinements, tooltips and much more.
We'll probably discover we missed to write some features here and will update this page in the next weeks - there were hundreds of commits over the last months of development!.
Improved
Rewrote the entire documentation, hopefully making it even more easy to understand and covering extra best practices, tips and frequently asked questions
Improved the License for the asset, now even more accessible for both indies and bigger teams.
Optimized effects with 0 garbage collection during, and many other optimization considerations
Fixed race conditions between effects (happening in some extreme occasions)
Fixed race conditions between actions, also allowing you to specify local actions for specific typewriters
Improved UX for the Editor, as well as APIs.
Improved Welcome screen and Setup window, now doing some extra checks
You can now share settings between multiple typewriters and text animators.
Improved API to handle rich text tags parameters, now automatically handled by Text Animator
Many bugfixes (like the new input system warnings) and more.
Breaking API
Most API is breaking (as we changed Namespaces and some core architecture, especially if you wrote custom C# effects or actions). A lot needed to change to have this new version and to prepare for all the future plans we have in mind - so we did it all at once (including the license change) so that a) it's something you only have to think about once, and b) we can work on the new updates more easily without being stuck. Please do read Upgrading from 2.X to 3.X. Thanks!
Known Issues
We are working on a fix and will update the asset as soon as possible anyways!