Unity 5.x Cookbook

Creating a message that fades away

Sometimes, we want a message to display just for a certain time, and then fade away and disappear, which will appear as shown in this screenshot:

Getting ready

This recipe adapts the first recipe in this chapter, so make a copy of that project to work on for this recipe.

For this recipe, we have prepared the script that you need in a folder named Scripts in the 1362_01_04 folder.

How to do it...

To display a text message that fades away, follow these steps:

1. Import the provided C# script class called CountdownTimer.
2. Ensure that GameObject Text-hello is selected in the Hierarchy tab. Then, attach an instance of the CountdownTimer ...