Hi! I am currently working on a project and ran into a problem that regards a function I need throughout the game. I was looking for a sort of GUI Text that pops up throughout the game, mostly for dialogue or natural message purposes (In game screenshot below)
(Basically the text that fades in and out when the protagonist speaks as well as the messages that guide the player on what to do or where to go) Many thanks
Hi,
You can use animations (and an animator) to modify the alpha of your text.
Or add a canvas group component and modify its alpha value (and all the objects you add to this group will fade the same way)
This is very simple all you have to do is add the canvas group component to the text, then you will add the ANIMATION (Not animator unless you want to) component to the object, then create an animation and change the alpha to zero or what ever number you want at about 2 seconds in or however long you want it to fade for. You can then create a script like this and put it on the gameObject.
“For c# just change function to void”
function OnTriggerEnter ()
{
gameObject.GetComponent.<Animation>().Play("name of animation");
}
This is actually very simple! Just make a canvas group, get a local reference to it (using UnityEngine.UI, public CanvasGroup cg, maybe cg = GetComponent< CanvasGroup>()), and SmoothDamp the alpha of the CanvasGroup (cg.alpha = Mathf.Smoothdamp(cg.alpha, 1 to fade in/0 to fade out, ref referenceVariable, fadeTime)