Unity C# - How to change UI text

[@Minecraftrockz2000]

Very helpful! Couldn't figure out that the component was a TextMeshProUGUI. Thanks!

[@chillmadude]

thanks, i was following an older tutorial to help me learn unity, but i didn't realise that legacy text and textmeshpro were two separate things and got stuck because of it
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also kinda looks like it was outdated for the legacy text bit too
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[@warriev6086]

I have TextMeshPro installed, but it gives this error?:
Assets\TextChange.cs(11,12): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'TextMeshProUGUI' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[@Angel-ij4bk]

Thanks this is what I was looking for

[@drizzith0]

Really thank you!

[@malaktunisky3874]

Perfect! Thank you

[@impactsport109]

Thanks you bro

[@hgokmendigital]

Thank you.

[@kaizo_kaim960]

👍

[@raymondhodge1754]

this my half brother

[@raymondhodge1754]

lolll

[@Duros360]

Ive followed you tut. and have basically butchered the code to impliment on my own scene. The code I've written works (Basically On Update, if I press space, it adds +1 to an int called Coin, and the text box displays "CoinsValueText.text = "Coins: " + coins;" (So Shows "Coins: 1" for example. If hit space, it changes to 2, so 'everything' is working fine).
My only issue is I have an error message:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
InventoryInt.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/InventoryInt.cs:20)
(InventoryInt is ofc the script)
line 20 is
CoinsValueText.text = "Coins: " + coins;
I've used your vid to set the text box as a public target:
public GameObject CoinsValue;
Tweaked your code:
public TextMeshProUGUI CoinsValueText;
On void start i have:
coins = 0;
CoinsValueText = CoinsValue.GetComponent();
Void Update:
CoinsValueText.text = "Coins: " + coins;
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
Debug.Log ("You gain 1 Coin");
coins ++;
}
It seems to be working apart from this error message, but i'm still learning uniy + c#, so id like to know where if gone wrong
(Full Script)
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;
public class InventoryInt : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject CoinsValue;
public int coins = 0;
public TextMeshProUGUI CoinsValueText;
void Start()
{
coins = 0;
CoinsValueText = CoinsValue.GetComponent();
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
CoinsValueText.text = "Coins: " + coins;
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
Debug.Log ("You gain 1 Coin");
coins ++;
}
}
}