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Auto typing animation for text ("typewriter" effect)

Reveal a text one letter after the other.

Authors and contributors to this experimental extension: Bouh, VictrisGames, D8H.

Reveal a text one letter after the other (a "typewriter" effect).

It can be used for dialogue scenes or visual novels on Text and Bitmap Text objects.

The top-down RPG example uses this extension (open the project online).

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Auto typing text

Reveal a text one letter after the other.

Behavior properties

  • Time between characters (🔢 Number, Duration). Default value is 0.05.
See internal technical details
  • Time between characters is stored as Interval (Number). Unit is Second. Default value is 0.05.

    This behavior must be used on an object also having a behavior with type "TextContainerCapability::TextContainerBehavior". This is stored on property Text.

Behavior actions

Show Nth first characters
Jump to a specific position in the text. Positions start at "0" and increase by one for every character.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2 (🔢 Number): Character position

Technical note: parameter 3 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::JumpToPosition.

Restart typing from the beginning
Restart typing from the beginning of text. The autotyping also start automatically when a new text is set for the object.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::RestartFromBeginning.

Time between characters
Change the time between characters beign typed.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2: 🟰 Operator
  • Parameter 3 (🔢 Number): Value

Technical note: parameter 4 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::SetInterval.

Show the full text
Show the full text.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::ShowFullText.

Behavior conditions

Has just typed
Check if a character has just been typed. Useful for triggering sound effects.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::HasJustTyped.

Time between characters
Compare the time between characters beign typed.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior
  • Parameter 2: 🟰 Relational operator
  • Parameter 3 (🔢 Number): Value to compare

Technical note: parameter 4 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::Interval.

Finished typing
Check if the full text has been typed.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🧩 Behavior

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is AutoTyping::AutoTyping::IsFinished.

Behavior expressions

Expression Description
Object.AutoTyping::Interval() Return the time between characters beign typed.

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