# Requirements & Limitations

Text Animator is a very powerful tool with very few requirements and limitations. **Please read them here before purchasing!**

* [#requirements](#requirements "mention")
* [#limitations](#limitations "mention")

You might also be interested in:

* [#integrating-third-party-dialogue-systems-and-plugins](#integrating-third-party-dialogue-systems-and-plugins "mention")
* [#frequently-asked-questions](#frequently-asked-questions "mention")
* [#known-issues](#known-issues "mention")

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## Requirements <a href="#requirements" id="requirements"></a>

<mark style="background-color:green;">**The asset works with the following UI and Unity versions**</mark>:

* **Text Mesh Pro** (Unity 2022.3 and up)
* **UI Toolkit** ([Unity 6.3 and up](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]).

It also supports the new Unity input system (and the legacy one, too).

{% hint style="warning" %}
Please note that we do not officially support Unity Alpha and Beta versions! We have no way to know if Unity changed APIs etc. *the day* they published the new alpha or beta, so we use these versions to test and make sure the asset works on release/production versions. Thanks!
{% endhint %}

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## Integrations <a href="#integrating-third-party-dialogue-systems-and-plugins" id="integrating-third-party-dialogue-systems-and-plugins"></a>

Integrating third party dialogue systems and plugins:

{% hint style="warning" %}
We are porting all third party integrations in the next weeks! Read more here [Integrated Plugins & Dialogues Systems](/text-animator-unity/integrations/integrated-plugins-and-dialogues-systems.md)
{% endhint %}

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## Limitations <a href="#limitations" id="limitations"></a>

This is what the asset cannot *(currently)* achieve.

<details>

<summary>"Bars" are not animated (by choice)</summary>

“Bars” in texts (`strikethroughs` **and** `underlines`) are not animated by choice.

(Here is how animated bars look like. Since they’re not that good-looking, it’s been chosen to keep them static.)

<img src="/files/IK1YXgScyJsuliegiHG7" alt="" data-size="original">

</details>

<details>

<summary>Removing tags when uninstalling the package</summary>

As known (like TMPro), if you uninstall this package you must remove all this plugin’s tags manually from your dialogues.

👍🏻 If you’re worried about this *for any reason,* **you could set the plugin to use ‘fallback effects’** only (which are applied **to the entirety of the text** without requiring any tag) and everything will be left untouched in case you remove the plugin. Yay!

</details>

<details>

<summary>Using \r and \b</summary>

You can’t erase or replace *parts* of the text midtime.

❌ Backspaces (e.g. , `\b` ) are currently not supported

✔️ You can erase/change/replace the **entire** text midtime, and/or hide specific parts of the text.

</details>

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## Frequently Asked Questions

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Please also read the [Frequently Asked Questions](/text-animator-unity/welcome/faq.md)for common issues and how to fix them. Thanks!
{% endhint %}

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## Known Issues

**We are working on a fix and will update the asset as soon as possible anyways**!

[^1]: Other versions are under consideration/testing! (as they need some important workarounds.) Stay tuned!


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