I loved the individual character rocking animation instead of rocking the whole word, and both are kick ass by themselves! The letter by letter float is by far the best one yet!
But alas, Im thinking to myself if I'd ever use this. The script by itself, probably not, but some might. I think what will probably happen is that other scripters would probably merge the awesomeness included here into other existing message systems. Hence why I recommended doing something totally new that I had not seen done yet, as repeating other work is a waste of time, and this hopefully has not been for you. Its new and it is beyond cool.
My favorite Message System so far has been the various flavors of Wachungas MMW that a number of us have taken a crack at improving. So all this amazing work on the new features is not in vein because it adds the potential to add new and very impressive features, and that is not a waste of time by any means. The other Message System I was thinking of is my Timed User Input (TUI) because it isnt really a Message System at all, but an overlay on top of existing Message Systems that allows Messages to be displayed in scenes that you normally can not display messages without modification to the scene scripts. Holy run-on sentence Batman! When I get some time, probably this weekend, I think I am going to take a crack at implementing features from both MMW and TUI (which needs a gooder name) into the Pseudo Message Window portion of TUI. The ability to display Weapon, Armor and Item Icons I think would benefit TUI greatly, but your Animated Text can add an incredible level of pizaz to displaying rather boring looking windows.
What I think you ought to take a crack at, if you aren't still doing what I do and dreaming up every possible feature, is to see if you can implement what you have here into the Non SDK (I despise the problems that script causes) version of MMW that LiTTleDRAgo did to be compatible with Blizz-ABS. MMW-Ex. By doing so, your modifications are going to get a LOT of attention! Or, you could try it with another Msg System if you so desire. Its really all up to you, but its what I suggest.
So, questions.
Any luck with Warpy Wavy stuff?
Font Sizes. I havent tried, but is there any foreseeable issues with dynamic font sizes? Oooh, hey, that could be another cool feature! Something like \+ \- to just change Font Size in the middle of displaying text! That could be way cool too! Dammit. I hate having no inner monologue and always thinking out loud. Oh yeah, on Font Sizes, if we were to deviate from the Default Font Size, would the Animated Text still work as expected?