Text and TextMeshPro in Unity - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Displaying Text with Text and TextMeshPro in Unity

📖 Scenario: You are creating a simple Unity scene where you want to display a welcome message to the player using two different text components: the built-in Text and the more advanced TextMeshPro.

🎯 Goal: Build a Unity script that sets the text of both a Text component and a TextMeshProUGUI component to show a welcome message.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a public variable for a Text component

Create a public variable for a TextMeshProUGUI component

Assign the welcome message to both text components in the Start() method

Print the final messages to the Unity Console

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Displaying text is essential in games and apps for instructions, scores, and messages. Unity's Text and TextMeshPro components are common tools for this.

💼 Career

Understanding how to use UI text components is a basic skill for Unity developers, useful in game development, interactive apps, and UI design.

1

Create public variables for Text components

Write a Unity C# script named WelcomeText. Inside the class, create two public variables: one called simpleText of type UnityEngine.UI.Text and another called tmpText of type TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.

Unity

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class WelcomeText : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Remember to include using UnityEngine.UI; for the Text component and using TMPro; for the TextMeshProUGUI component.

2

Create a welcome message string

Inside the WelcomeText class, create a private string variable called welcomeMessage and set it to "Welcome to Unity Text Demo!".

Unity

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class WelcomeText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text simpleText;
    public TextMeshProUGUI tmpText;

    // Create the welcome message string here
    // Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Use private string welcomeMessage = "Welcome to Unity Text Demo!"; inside the class but outside any method.

3

Set the text components in Start()

Add a Start() method to the WelcomeText class. Inside it, set the text property of simpleText and tmpText to the welcomeMessage string.

Unity

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class WelcomeText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text simpleText;
    public TextMeshProUGUI tmpText;

    private string welcomeMessage = "Welcome to Unity Text Demo!";

    // Add Start() method and set text properties
    // Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Use the Start() method to set both simpleText.text and tmpText.text to the welcomeMessage.

4

Print the welcome messages to the Console

Inside the Start() method, after setting the text properties, add two Debug.Log() statements to print the values of simpleText.text and tmpText.text.

Unity

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class WelcomeText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text simpleText;
    public TextMeshProUGUI tmpText;

    private string welcomeMessage = "Welcome to Unity Text Demo!";

    void Start()
    {
        simpleText.text = welcomeMessage;
        tmpText.text = welcomeMessage;

        // Print the text values to the Console
        // Your code here
    }
}

Need a hint?

Use Debug.Log() to print the text values after setting them.