Text Component

The Text Component is a rendering component that allows text to be displayed in the world.

Component Settings

The Text component in the inspector.

Property	Description
Text	The text to be displayed in the world by the Text Component.
Font	The font used to render the text.
Color	The color of the text.
Font Size	How large the text is rendered.
Size	The space available for the text to fill. The text will wrap if it extends beyond the width of this size.
Horizontal	The horizontal alignment of the text. Available alignments are Left aligned, Centered and Right aligned.
Font Styles	Change the style of the text. Available styles are Bold, Underline, Italic and Strikethrough.
Outline	Should the text have an outline.
Outline Color	The color of the outline.
Thickness	The thickness of the outline.
Shadow	Should the text have a shadow. This shadow is placed behind the text and can help it stand out.
Shadow Color	The color of the shadow.
Offset X	The shadow's horizontal offset. Ranges from -1 to 1.
Offset Y	The shadow's vertical offset. Ranges from -1 to 1.
Softness	The softness or fuzziness of the shadow. 0 results in a crisp shadow with hard edges. 1 gives a blurry shadow with blended edges.

Formatted text

Style tags have been used here to style the text in many ways within a single text component.

By changing the style options in the inspector, you can adjust the style of all text in the text component. There is also a way to use style tags to only style some words or characters.

Available style tags

Style	Tags	Example	Result
Underline	<u>...</u>	<u>This text is underlined</u>	This text is underlined
Bold	<b>...</b>	<b>This text is bold</b>	This text is bold
Italics	<i>...</i>	<i>This text is italic</i>	This text is italic
Set Color	<color=color name>...</color> <color=Color hex code>...</color>	<color=red>This text is red</color> <color=#00FFFF>This text is cyan</color>	This text is red This text is cyan
Font Size	<size=font size>....</size>	<size=24>This text is size 24</size>	This text is size 24

The text in the example image for this section has the following text

 <u>Formatted text with style tags</u>
  
 <b>Bold text</b>
 <i>italics</i>
 <color=red>C</color><color=orange>o</color><color=yellow>l</color><color=green>o</color><color=#00FFFF>u</color><color=blue>r</color><color=purple>!</color>
 <size=8>Big Text</size>

You can paste this into the mod editor to achieve the same result.

Example Usage

Signs

The text component can be combined with props to make signs.

Text aligned with other props can create a sign.

Guide the player

If any part of the minigame needs explanation, a text component can be used to provide information or guidance to players. Try to minimize this however as it makes the minigame less accessible to players of other languages.