Annoying panel issue.

I`m trying to flash a panel over another panel but no matter how hard I try and what I do I just can`t seem to bring a panel over the other, can`t get either panel to be displayed on top of another, if I want to use a panel I need to wait for it to end (SetActive(false)) then bring up the other panel and viceversa what do I need to do in order to have a main panel active for 2 seconds and have another one flash on top of the first panel for .2 seconds? Changing the panel order in the hierarchy doesn`t seem to help at all.

Panel 1 script:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void Freeze()
2.     {
3.        
4.         StartCoroutine(freeze());
5.     }
6.  
7.     public IEnumerator freeze()
8.     {
9.         freezeScreen.SetActive(true);
10.         Time.timeScale = freezeIntensity;
11.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(freezeTime);
12.         Time.timeScale = 1f;
13.         freezeScreen.SetActive(false);
14.    
15.  
16.     }

The public void Frenzy is attached to a button that brings up the main panel I want to be rendered under the flashing one.

Panel 2 script:

Code (CSharp):

1.  public void Frenzy()
2.     {
3.         frenzyActive = true;
4.         StartCoroutine(frenzy());
5.     }
6.  
7.     IEnumerator frenzy()
8.     {
9.        
10.         frenzyScreen.SetActive(true);
11.         yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.2f);
12.         frenzyScreen.SetActive(false);
13.        
14.     }

This is the button that flashes the panel for .2 seconds.

As I mentioned, changing the panel order is useless as after I press the first button and bring up the main panel I need to wait for it to end before being able to flash the second panel and vice versa (did a lot of tests regarding this manner, even increased the flashing time to 2 seconds instead of .2)

What else can be causing this problem?

 

I'm not sure if you mean Panel as in the UI panel (which is just technically an image with some adjusted settings), but all ui is rendered in the order of the children. Which means the last child is always drawn on top. But this applies to a single canves as you can have multiple canves in your scene and set an order on them which will determine which group of children is drawn first.

If you mean panel as in something else, then I'd need more info on them.

 

I mean panel as in the UI, I do have more than just one canvas though but regardless of the panel order in the canvas children I still can`t activate one panel before the other is deactivated.

 

Do you mean that the panels are not transparent?

So if you have both panels active (and keep them active) and then, in the Editor, you reorder the panels, you mean you see only the last panel (the one lowest in the hierarchy as Brathnann mentioned previously)?

 

No, I just see whichever panel I activate first, can`t activate any other before the first one goes away, regardless of which one I set active first. The panels are indeed transparent but this has nothing to do with our issue.

 

If you lay out

canves
--Panel 1
--Panel 2

And everything is active and panel 2 is over panel 1, then there is nothing wrong with your hierarchy, so it's a code issue at that point.

I do see a time.timescale adjustment in your first script. Are you doing something with timescale?

 

Yeah, I`m adding a cool slow down effect, a freeze down where everything slows down.I`m gonna comment it out and see if there`s any change.
Edit: no change whatsoever, still have the issue.

 

This is how my hierarchy looks like, frenzy should be displayed on top of freeze but yet it doesn`t.

 

The hierarchy looks fine, but, I'm not sure I know what is suppose to be happening in the game view. I see what looks like two icons. Are those suppose to be on top of each other? Where are the panels?