TextMesh Pro Effect is a mono behaviour component that can be added on top of the TextMesh Pro or TextMesh Pro (UGUI) component.

Parameters

Type

Animation type sets a pattern that will be used during animation.

There are multiple animation patterns:

Wave

Grow

Unfold

Unfold And Waves

Sketch

Duration in seconds

Duration of the full animation

Amplitude

Amplitude of the effect, where applicable.

Character Duration Ratio

Ratio between single character animation duration and full animation duration.

Gradient

Sets the color of each character during the animation.

The color selected continuously along the timeline for all animation types except Sketch type. In Sketch type colors are selected randomly once every animation loop.

Mix

Color mix mode. Colors of gradient are not just set as is, TextMesh Pro Effect considers colors and gradient that were set by TextMesh Pro component. Colors from TextMesh Pro Effect are mixed with those colors using one of two modes. Default mode is multiply, but there are cases where you may want to use additive mode for lighting/glow-like effects.

TextMesh Pro Original colors

Multiply

Add

Auto Play

Starts animation on enable event if checked.

Repeat

Repeats effect after completion infinitely if checked.

For Words

Applies effect only to selected words.

You can select multiple words to apply effect on by separating them with space character.

You can combine multiple effects on one text by adding another TextMesh Pro Effect component on it.

Scripting

In general the same properties that are available from an editor are available from code. The only difference is that you have to call the Apply method to apply all changes.

Apply() Applies all changes to component

Play() Starts animation

Finish() Force finishes current animation and resets the state

IsFinished Gets a value indicating whether the current animation is ended

TextMesh Pro Effect

Animate texts with ease!

TextMesh Pro Effect

Text animation system

Gradient Maps

Fire Effect

Damage Flash