Core Concepts

Effects

You can apply effects at different phases of a character's "life":

Appearances

For animating letters only when they’re appearing on screen. )

Persistent

For animating letters effects continuously during time, as long as a letter is visible.

Disappearances

For animating letters when they just became not-visible.

Since Text Animator 3.0, any effect can be played in any stage of a letter! (Appearance, Persistent or Disappearance)

Mix and match values

Even if you do have "default" effects and values, you can always modify them through the inspector or via text.

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Settings accessibility

Text Animator uses many different settings, from animations to typewriters and more.

For most occasions, you can apply different these settings at three different levels:

• Locally: settings are bound to that component

• Shared: settings are stored in a ScriptableObject, and will be shared among other instances that have that ScriptableObject reference.

• Global: either the settings will be applied on top of others (e.g. in the case of recognizing effects), or will be used only if no other setting was specified (as a "fallback", like in the case of curves).

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Databases

Text Animator uses ScriptableObjects to store information about what exists and can be used, as well as the building blocks for animations and typewriters (effects, wait times, curves etc.).

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Editor Tooltips

You can hover the mouse above many options and fields in the inspector to show some tooltips and extra information!