Text Position Randomizer - Unity

A utility script to randomize character position in Text Mesh Pro

Motivation

THis is a utility script needed for a game I work on with a team. We need some hand-written font so to add more variety and authenticity I wrote that asset.

Installation

To install this package you can do one of this:

• Using Package Manager Window

  • Opening the Package Manager Window: Window > Package Manager
  • Wait for it to load
  • Click on the top left button + > Add package from git URL
  • Copy paste the repository link
  • Press enter

• Modifying manifest.json file Add the following to your manifest.json file (which is under your project location in Packages folder)

{
  "dependancies": {
    ...
    "com.rikoo.text-position-randomizer": "https://github.com/ErikRikoo/Unity-Text-Position-Randomizer.git",
    ...
  }
}

You can now use it and don't want to kill your designer/artist anymore.

Updating

Sometimes Unity has some hard time updating git dependencies so when you want to update the package, follow this steps:

• Go into package-lock.json file (same place that manifest.json one)
• It should look like this:

{
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "com.rikoo.text-position-randomizer": {
      "version": "https://github.com/ErikRikoo/Unity-Text-Position-Randomizer.git",
      "depth": 0,
      "source": "git",
      "dependencies": {},
      "hash": "hash-number-there"
    },
    ...
}

• Remove the "com.rikoo.text-position-randomizer" and save the file
• Get back to Unity
• Let him refresh
• Package should be updated

How does it work

To be able to use it, you just need to add the TextPositionRandomizer script to a UI element which has a TextMeshPro script on it. It will then bind to it and you can change the parameters of the script:

• Cached Text is the text that will be displayed by the UI Element, it is initially filled with the TMPro content
• Horizontal Range: You can tweak the min and max for the horizontal axis, the random horizontal offset will be between min and max
• Vertical Range: Same but for the vertical range

TODO

Nothing yet, but fell free to suggest !

Suggestions

Feel free to suggest features by creating an issue, any idea is welcome !