UIText¶

-- Grab the text object
local propUIText = script:GetCustomProperty("UIText"):WaitForObject()

-- Slightly offset the text's shadow so that you can see the shadow
propUIText:SetShadowOffset(Vector2.New(20, 20))

-- This variable will store the number of seconds that have passed
local secondCounter = 0

-- Give the shadow a black color
local shadowBlackColor = Color.BLACK

-- This color will not be visible because the alpha value is 0
local shadowInvisibleColor = Color.New(0, 1, 0, 0)

function Tick(deltaTime)
    -- Update the "secondCounter" to keep track of the number of seconds that have passed
    secondCounter = secondCounter + deltaTime

    -- Once 1 second has passed, toggle the visibility of the shadow
    Task.Wait(1)

    -- If the current color of the text shadow is black, make the shadow invisible using "shadowInvisibleColor"
    if(propUIText:GetShadowColor() == shadowBlackColor) then
        -- Set the color of the text shadow to black
        propUIText:SetShadowColor(shadowInvisibleColor)
    -- If the current color of the text shadow is invisible, make the shadow visible using "shadowBlackColor"
    elseif (propUIText:GetShadowColor() == shadowInvisibleColor) then
        -- Set the color of the text shadow to an invisible color
        propUIText:SetShadowColor(shadowBlackColor)
    end
end

-- Grab the text object
local propUIText = script:GetCustomProperty("UIText"):WaitForObject()

-- Change the outline color of the text to green
propUIText:SetOutlineColor(Color.GREEN)

-- This variable will store the number of seconds that have passed since the start of the game
local timePassed = 0

-- This variable will store the current size of the text outline
local textOutlineSize = 0

-- This variable determins how large the text outline will be
local outlineScale = 5

-- Determines how often the text outline changes size
-- The current value will change the size 2 times per second
local frequency = 2 * (2 * math.pi)

function Tick(deltaTime)
    -- Update the "timePassed" to keep track of the number of seconds that have passed
    timePassed = timePassed + deltaTime

    -- The "timePassed" variable will be passed into a sine wave function to smoothly change the text outline size
    -- This sine wave function will have a frequency of 2 hertz, and an amplitude of 5 units
    textOutlineSize = (math.sin(timePassed * frequency) * outlineScale) + outlineScale

    -- the "floor" function is used to convert "textOutlineSize" from a number with decimals (known as a "floating point number")
    -- to a number without a decimal point (known as an "integer")
    textOutlineSize = math.floor(textOutlineSize)

    -- Update the outline size of the text
    propUIText.outlineSize = textOutlineSize
end

-- Grab the text object
local propUIText = script:GetCustomProperty("UIText"):WaitForObject()

-- This variable will store the number of seconds that have passed since the start of this script
local timePassed = 0

function Tick(deltaTime)
    -- Update the "timePassed" to keep track of the number of seconds that have passed
    timePassed = timePassed + deltaTime

    -- Convert the "timePassed" variable into a string format
    -- the "floor" function was used to remove the extra decimal points from the "timePassed" number
    local timePassedString = tostring(math.floor(timePassed))

    -- Update the UI text object to display the number of seconds that have passed
    propUIText.text = timePassedString
end