text: letter by letter

[S0L1Dfake]

I have a dumb question;
Is there any easy way to make text appear letter by letter proggressivly? For example you have a character talking on screen and below them is a caption and his text appears sort of as hes saying it instead of all at once. Anyone do this or know how to?

[Game A Gogo]

not yet

[S0L1Dfake]

ehhh... that sucks, oh well.

[Sgt. Sparky]

OOOOOO! OOOOOO! do you mean like when you press the next button it goes to a different text!? Or when the actor is talking it shows the text moving along!? why not just make an animation of the text Moving? *takes a deap breath*

[Game A Gogo]

Well i think it would be better using a mask actor (will use less images and better graphics)

[Sgt. Sparky]

hmmmm... how would the mask actor be used?

[Game A Gogo]

welll, all you do is an animation of a black actor, an the animation would make the black actor scroling out, like doing the opistie of the apearing text ex:

88888888
88888888

next frame

---88888
8888888

next frame

-------8
888888

next frame etc...

well, make the actor the same color as the BG under the text.

[Sgt. Sparky]

cool! Saltay...

[Fuzzy]

Not yet? Not yet? Cant be done? I hear too much of this in the GE forum!

Use a canvas and draw the text letter by letter. Or, use a text actor, and a mask to slowly reveal it. Or modify the text value using a timer. or half a million other ways!

[Novice]

Simply use a timer to copy letters from a string to a text actor. The length of the timer determines the speed of the scrolling.

[Game A Gogo]

Not yet? Not yet? Cant be done? I hear too much of this in the GE forum!

Use a canvas and draw the text letter by letter. Or, use a text actor, and a mask to slowly reveal it. Or modify the text value using a timer. or half a million other ways!

Ive already covered the "mask" thing right up there! it would be perfect!
But makslane told us that he would be working on some special thing to make that happen, thats why a said not yet!

And also, he said an EASY way!