Text Animator for Unity
A downloadable plugin
Bring your Dialogues to Life
Add personality to your games with this easy to use and customizable plugin.
Animate any text and increase your game's immersion in only a few steps.
๐ Welcome to Text Animator 3.0!! ๐ Now including UI Toolkit support (From Unity 6.3), a new animation engine and much much more!
Winner of Unity's Best Artistic Tool Award in 2023, Text Animator for Unity lets you bring your dialogues to life in a few steps.
Instantly add extra feel to your games, like:
- Make letters appear and disappear
- Stack effects on top of each other, and create your own
- Start a typewriter with different speeds (like characters, punctuations and words)
- Trigger gameplay events when a specific letter is shown
- and much more!
โ Features
- Easy to use and Customize
- Powerful and Flexible
- Quick to set up
- Supports multiple effects, stackable on the same letters.
- Requires TextMeshPro* or UI Toolkit, supporting its emotes, alignments and custom fonts.
- Shows Text Dynamically (like a typewriter), with different appearance effects.
- Call Events and perform any action.
- Supports external Dialogue Systems (some are already integrated!)
- Short and easy to read Documentation
*30 TextMeshPro's tags are compatible. Read the limitations page below for more.
10+ Built-in Effects Available
You can use multiple of them together; they're all stackable and customizable!
Of course, you can also create your ones (via C# and via the inspector)!
Useful links
- ๐ Website: your main hub for all features, pricing and much more
- ๐ Documentation: learn everything about the asset and feel comfortable even before downloading it.
- ๐ฎ Games: discover the many games that are using Text Animator and submit your(s) for future showcases.
- ๐๐ป Requirements: read its requirements and learn exactly what you can do.
- Integrations: this plugin supports external Dialogue Systems! Take a look at already supported ones, or read how to add your own!
- ๐ง Support: for any question or support request.
๐๏ธPlease note that the asset uses a non-standard license! Previously it was per-seat, but it didn't help neither students, indies that didn't sign with publishers yet, and bigger teams with only a few developers per game but still inside a bigger entity. Now we grow as you grow, you pay only once - no matter the size of your team - and can use that version forever in any game (protected from retroactive changes as well). Read more here and let us know what you think!
Extra: The fonts showed in the media are not included. They're property of Chevy Ray, used with permission. You can get them here.
Have fun bringing your texts to life! You can read the "Technical details" below to also discover more information. Cheers!
This asset is governed by the Text Animator for Unity license terms.
Purchase
In order to download this plugin you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $65 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Text Animator for Unity 3.X is out on itch!2 days ago
- Styles - v2.1.0Nov 28, 2023
- Text Animator 2.0 is out now!Jun 22, 2023
- New Appearance Effect: Random Direction - v1.3.2Apr 07, 2022
- Disappearance Effects and Assembly Definition Files - v1.3.0Nov 06, 2021
- Append Text - v1.2.12Feb 01, 2021
- Ink Integration & 2 New Effects - v1.2.11Dec 18, 2020
- Global Built-in effect values - v1.2.10Nov 16, 2020








Comments
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Just curious why this version doesnโt get updates?
Hi there!! It's planned, the reason why it's blocked is that we need to synchronise our upload pipeline with the new releases etc. - we thought it wouldn't take much but then it got stuck in between tasks (and Holidays too). Working on it! (also on our own store etc., lot of things to think about with multi distribution and different licenses.)
In case we won't be able to do so soon, I'll try to do it manually. Cheers! ๐ซถ๐ป
Hey dude, was looking at picking up this asset but both the Documentation & Limitation pages seem to return a 404? Is there anywhere I can access this information that's still supported? Thanks!
Nvm I was able to find these pages by manually searching the root of your website. I look forward to giving this package a go!
Sorry for the late reply, for some reason I didn't get the notification of this post - thank you for telling me! I have updated the links on the page.
Enjoy the asset! I'm always available in case you need any help with it too. Cheers!