Text#126

Add text to the animation. I understand that this requiers a bit of work (selecting fonts, sizes, rendering fonts into shapes), but I believe that this would be useful.

Also, this tool is simply amazing!

Thanks, @Davi Mello! Text is planned and we’ve already done a decent amount of work to support it, just trying to prioritize among all our other features. Will be good to see the votes it gets here. :)

Rive looks amazing. We would like to use it create motion graphics for online content. If text is implemented, would there be a way to manipulate objects with it? A use case that comes up a lot in our work is to size a rectangle to the width of the text + a few pixels padding. In after effects, we do this by adding an expression, which is essentially a small javascript snippet that can modify the ppropertie of a shape frame by frame. Is there something planned like that in the future?

I believe that this is planned since we already manipulate text in SVG as shapes.

Is there anything that I can do to help you guys? I’m planning to ditch After Effects and anything that I can do to help this amazing platform will be a interesting for me.

@Davi Mello feel free to shoot us a note at hello@rive.app!

@Nick Verlinden this is something we would support, but it wouldn’t be directly related to the text feature itself. It would be a more generic type of constraint (or new group/container type) that would allow you to set layout options for resizing and alignment.

Al intentar añadir un texto muestra un error

Hola @Inventarios denzil ¿Puedes explicar como estas añadiendo el texto y, si es posible, adjuntar una captura del error?

Oh, yes!! We are too! Hope it is getting close, our app needs it badly!

I hope this one will drop soon… we are in great need!

without text, not much can be told on the web.

any timelines?

Thanks for all the interest! We’re not sharing timelines but we are still working on this – it’s a high priority.

Would really love this for my app :)

Anyone looking to do text in Rive before text is supported in Rive, I suggest creating the text in Inkscape, and then using Inkscape’s “Path/Object to Path” menu item to convert the text. Other graphics tools have similar options, so you don’t have to use Inkscape. To improve the rendering quality, use a larger size font and then scale it down within Rive after you import it.

Any update on this???