At last, my Animated Text plugin for Unreal is out!
➡️ Print UMG text letter-by-letter.
➡️ New material node for per-letter animation.
➡️ Insert interactive widgets into text.
Let me know what you think!
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/proto-animated-text
By the way, my blog isn't set up yet, but I'll eventually write up how this works.
Feel free to ask if you want tips on how to do stuff like this yourself!
The main trick here is using vertex colors to pack extra info into text characters. (This gets around limitations that normally would require direct modification of the engine).
Proto
Olof Karlsson