Effects on Text

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hey Guys.

I was just curious if there was anyway to add a small fade effect to text in Blueprint.
It gets a bit cringe worthy when default text just pops up randomly.

The fading can add a nice little atmospheric mood to the entry of the message.

Any easy way to do this?

Thanks,

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you might be able to do it by using a timeline to control the opacity, I know it would work for meshes but not sure about text, I think there was a fade effect in chicken you could take a look at.

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UMG? If you mean print message you can’t animate it, so UMG is the way to go.

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I am using timeline to change opacity. Here is a movie with blinking “Start Button” font.

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Hey Morning Everyone.

Thanks for the replies so far!
I just wanted to clear a few things up that may have came off as confusing.

Here’s the basic process I want:

  1. Player walks on trigger
  2. Text fades-in and drawn to HUD
  3. X amount of time passes
  4. Text fades out
  5. Player goes on there way

Is there anything I can put in between my OnTrigger event and drawing text to the HUD that would simulate the fade-in or am I doing this completely wrong?

The timeline that you’re speaking of, do you mean in matinee or in blueprint?
Hmmm, actually do you think it’s possible to fade in text the same way you can fade into a game (with the fade track in matinee)?

I’ll take a look at tappy.

I’ve been working with UE for years now.
Is it sad that I had no idea what you were talking about?

By print message, you don’t mean drawing text right?
What I was doing was drawing text to the HUD.
With that said, is there a way to animate drawn text?

[QUOTE=Tefel;147717]
I am using timeline to change opacity. Here is a movie with blinking “Start Button” font.https://youtube.com/watch?v=k3yb5WQZm1I[/QUOTE]

Hmmm see this is pretty much what I need accept it not continuously blinking.
Was this all done in BP?
By the way, I like the main menu, really beautiful.

Thanks so far,
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I meant in BP, you can create a timeline that increases a value holds it for a short time and then decreases the value, you could then use that value to drive the opacity of the text, I am not sure how you get the opacity of the text exactly but looking at the wording of Tefel’s post it sounds like hes using a BP timeline so its probably better if he answers that one.

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Huh.
I had no idea BP had a timeline feature.
Thanks for the info!

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