Is there a reasonably simple way to scroll txt?

sinbot

I have some txt prompts that I would like to have slowly scroll. Sort of like how a news marquee might look. In other words, txt in a box that scrolls but the actor itself remains in place.

Any way to do this without real heavy logic involved?

tatiang

Sure! Here's a demo. I wasn't sure how to do this efficiently but I think this works pretty well. Granted, it relies on actor and text color settings but I think you could do something more flexible with layered actors.

tatiang

Here's version 2 that includes another, slightly more complicated but also more flexible way to do this.

sinbot

These are awesome! So in the 2nd one is the idea that the txt is destroying when it reaches a certain height? That would be necessary for my particular use. Or better yet, interpolate the txt to 0 color.

Is there a way to make the table repeat? I tried using a loop but didn't seem to work at all.> @tatiang said:

Here's version 2 that includes another, slightly more complicated but also more flexible way to do this.

tatiang

@sinbot said:
These are awesome! So in the 2nd one is the idea that the txt is destroying when it reaches a certain height? That would be necessary for my particular use. Or better yet, interpolate the txt to 0 color.

Yes, it gets destroyed when it's a certain height above the starting text block actor (which spawns copies of itself below it).

Is there a way to make the table repeat? I tried using a loop but didn't seem to work at all.

Yes... but I just threw this together off the top of my head so I'm not sure how you'd do that.

Two.E

Here is the text continuing to loop. Its the exacts same idea as @tatiang

sinbot

Excellent stuff guys! Thank you so much. Integrating this right now into my app and learning something new ; ) > @Two.E said:

Here is the text continuing to loop. Its the exacts same idea as @tatiang