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    Question by nathanvj · Mar 18, 2017 at 01:33 AM · c#

    How to change the color of the TextMeshPro GUI component?

    Hi there,

    I'm writing a script that can be used to fade in TextMeshPro (asset) text.

    However I'm not able to access the color of the TextMeshProUGUI component in my script:

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    Here is my inspector with the TextMeshProUGUI component:

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    What can I do to make this work? Am I even able to change the color of the TextMeshProUGUI component? Thanks in advance!

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    Answer by csommer828 · Oct 13, 2018 at 08:24 PM

    Remember to use TMPro class:

    using TMPro;

    Assign your tmp object variable using TextMeshProUGUI:

    private TextMeshProUGUI tmpObj;

    Set the color with a new Color32:

    tmpObj.color = new Color32(50, 50, 50, 255);

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    avatar image JonPQ · Nov 01 at 09:40 PM 0
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    you need to set the tags, otherwise setting color does nothing...

    see here http://digitalnativestudios.com/textmeshpro/docs/ScriptReference/TextMeshPro-color.html

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