The following guide shows you the simplest way to display text directly on-screen. You could also follow Expressive Text inside UI if you already have a “master UI” and want to display the text nested to it.
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The simplest way to display text directly on screen is using the Blueprint Functions provided:
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Here’s how we use them to display three sentences in subtitle style:
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Open the level blueprint (We’re doing this on the level blueprint but you could do it from any other blueprint)
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First, create 3 ExpressiveTextFields variables that are going to contain the 3 different sentences respectively:
And here’s the value for LineOne:
- Setting Default Style to “Subtitles” since that’s the only style we’re going to apply.
- On Alignment, we set the text to be centered at the bottom and apply a 10% of parent offset from the bottom — check out Justification, Alignment & Positioning to learn more about how these parameters work.
- Width Settings is set to only occupy 70% of the parent size (i.e. the game screen) so it overflows sooner and doesn’t fill the screen with text from end-to-end.
- Justification is also set to center.
- Finally, we set the text to be whatever we want.
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For LineTwo and LineThree we use the same settings as above, changing the text only.
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Now it’s time to plug these variables into the macro:
In the macro itself we’re able to define how long to display the text for - something useful about this macro is that it only continues execution when the given time has passed, meaning we can chain them together to transition between sentences.
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Now you can hit Play ▶️ and see the results:
