Wrapping

This effect controls the Alignment and Overflow of the text.

Alignments

The buttons at the right allow changing the Horizontal and Vertical Alignment.

Horizontal can be Left-aligned, Centered, Right-aligned or Justified.

While the Vertical can be aligned to the Top, Center or Bottom.

When selecting Justified as the Horizontal Alignment, SmartEdge will add spaces between the words and characters so that each line inside a paragraph get the same length.

Normally this space will be added to separate words, but when there are too few words in a line or the words are too big, the separation of the words look bad. In those cases is nice to also separate a bit the characters forming the words.

The "Justify Characters" parameters allows defining that. When it is 0, only the words are separated. And if it become 1, then only the characters are separated and the words remain at the same distance. By default this value is 0.2, so that there is more separation of words than characters.

The other problem of justification is that when separating characters, ALL of the characters are separated, even if the distance between the words is small. To fix this, SmartEdge introduces the "Justify Min Space" which defines the distance between the words at which the characters start been separated. Lines whose words are closer than this distance, will only separated the words. However, if the distance to fill is too big, then the characters start spreading as well.

Overflow

These settings control what happens when the text goes bigger than the RectTransform. The action can be separated for the horizontal and vertical overflowing.

Horizontal Overflow can one of the following:

• Overflow        The text is kept as its without modifications.
• Truncate        Any character that outside the RectTransform is hidden
• Wrap                If the line is too big, then it is split into several lines smaller ones that fit inside the area.

Vertical Overflow can be:

• Overflow        The text can fall of the RecTransform
• Truncate        Any line of text that goes bellow the area is removed
• Page                The text is divided into pages that fill inside the RectTransform.

When Paged this is enabled, there is a new parameter named "Page" that controls which page is visible. 0 is the first page.

Also, if the BestFit is enabled and Page Overflow is selected, another parameter "Num Pages" is shown to define how many pages the text should fit in.

Culling Text

Another handy feature is the ability to limit the length of the text that its visible. This allows making typewriter effects (which can also be done with animations).

Bellow the Overflow section there is a row with 3 settings:

• Chars:        Controls how many characters are going to be visible (-1 shows all)
• Words:        Sets how many words are shown. (e.g. if 3, it will only show the characters of the first 3 words,  -1 disables this)
• Lines:        How many lines could be shown. Any line higher than this gets culled.

Using these settings, it easy to make effects where individual words come a random times for cool futuristic consoles.

Modifiers

Using the Convert Case option, the text is modified to the selected case type

• None                        Disables any case conversion.
• Uppercase                Turns every character into its Uppercase version.                          THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. ANOTHER LINE.
• Lowercase                All characters get lowercased                                                this is an example. another line.
• Sentence                The first letter of each sentence is Uppercased.                                This is an example. Another line.
• TitleCase                        The first letter of each word is Uppercased.                                This Is An Example. Another Line.
• SmallCaps                All is Uppercase, but what was Uppercase initially is now bigger.        [T]HIS IS AN EXAMPLE. [A]NOTHER LINE.

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