Expressive Text: 0.2(f7fdc69)

Release Date

Nov 9, 2022

Released Status

Released

Text is now rendered in batches rather than per character — this results in great performance gains due to the reduced amount of draw calls.

We’re now only allocating one widget for the entire text rather than 1 per character.

Material dynamic instances are now re-used between multiple text blocks when they can be shared, also further improving performance and reducing memory consumption.

Occasionally, some combinations of text effects can still result in text being rendered as individual characters (more draw calls).

There’s plenty of new styles on this release - please check them out by expanding the sections below:

With the usage of icon fonts, you can now display several types of icons. Learn more at

New animation editor & animation assets that you can create yourself

Due to our renderer improvements we now support ligatures to be displayed correctly and able to be animated and styled

Same poem being animated and displayed using Expressive Text v0.2

Style assets now show a very useful preview of how they look

We’ve now let you take control on how the outline of your text looks like! Here’s the properties to look for:

Starting on Expressive Text v0.2 we’ve added a slate shader patcher that lets us access resourceful information about the text we’re drawing into the material. You will get a prompt asking for permission to patch the shader when you first launch the plugin.

From now on, the style editor will only show valid expressive text material when picking the
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Material parameter.

0.2(f7fdc69)