[SOLVED] Fading UI Text?

Unity Engine
1

Hello, I’ve been doing research on how to write a script to fade my UI Text i have in a Unity Scene. However, everything i find is related to the old Unity . If someone could help me figure out how to write a new script for UI or point me in a direction that would be great! Here is an old GUI text fade script i found while following tutorials, its irrelevant now i assume with unity 5.x

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class UIfadeOutText : MonoBehaviour
{

const float period = 4.0f;

void Update ()
    {
        if(Time.time > period)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
           
            Color colorOfObject = GetComponent<GUIText>().material.color; 

            float prop = (Time.time / period);

            colorOfObject.a = Mathf.Lerp(1, 0, prop);

            GetComponent<GUIText>().material.color = colorOfObject;
    }
}
2

add a “canvas group” component (from “layout” menu group), change it’s alpha value.

3

Not too much to change.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;//Added this
using System.Collections;
public class UIfadeOutText : MonoBehaviour
{
const float period = 4.0f;
void Update ()
    {
        if(Time.time > period)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
         
            Color colorOfObject = GetComponent<Text>().color;//Changed this
            float prop = (Time.time / period);
            colorOfObject.a = Mathf.Lerp(1, 0, prop);
            GetComponent<Text>().color = colorOfObject;//Changed this
    }
}
4

ahhh, i see the whole reason i couldn’t figure out how to change the UI text was because i wasn’t including the unity UI engine library… I literally wrote 4 source codes wondering WTH am i doing wrong. Thanks so much for responding Chris!.