LattVines / StoryScroller

Unity c# code for exposition story text

StoryScroller

Some Unity c# code for exposition story text.

What is this?

• simulate the experience of watching somebody type into a command prompt
• use secret '█' character to insert brief hesitations
• use secret '⌐' character to backspace and remove a typed character
• use secret 'µ' character to clearscreen
• the | cursor will blink at the end
• newlines will push all lines up, scrolling them away at X value
• supports adding a sound effect for typing sound effects

Why?

This was made to support a story in a game that is delivered through sequences of watching the text type out on screen.

Anything else?

Yes. There is a class called TypeWriterText.cs that can go directly on a text object to make it type in. That component is not as flexibile as the StoryScroller.cs. It was an older system I reused many times and I included it here.

Scene set up.

1. Put StoryScroller.cs on a gameObject in the scene.
2. For my ChapterOne.cs example, put that on a gameObject too.
3. link Text_obj on the StoryScroller.cs to a textmesh pro text object in your scene.
4. Hit play and ChapterOne will begin.
5. To write your own lines into StoryScroller, see ChapterOne example. It's very simple.