CanvasGroup For Fading?

[blainelight]

This is amazing! I’ve tried all 3 solutions:

1. The one in the lecture
2. The CrossFadeAlpha method
3. This “Canvas Group” method

The Canvas Group method is the best because:

• It’s most intuitive to set up
• It requires the simplest code
• It allows the user to click around as it fades (the user doesn’t have to wait for the fade to finish in order to click)

For anyone wondering how to replicate:

1. In Unity, in the 01a Start scene, click on Canvas

2. Click Add Component, then add the “Canvas Group” component

3. Set alpha to 0

4. Add Component, make a script, code below (don’t forget to add in the UnityEngine.UI too):

    public float fadeInDelay;
    private CanvasGroup canvasGroup;
   
    void Start()
    {
        canvasGroup = GetComponent<CanvasGroup>();
    }
   
    void Update()
    {
        canvasGroup.alpha += Time.deltaTime / fadeInDelay;
    }
   

Hope that helps and thanks again @BlackPhi for finding this!
-Blaine