digital counter

I am looking for a sort of digital counter, 0-6, 6 columns, I have tried but all my efforts have not done what I want them too??? any help would be great...

 

What are you trying to do, and what have you tried?

 

well tried 3d text, swap, instansiate.... but I need each column (1-6) to be able to count 0-6, sort of like a digital lock....????? tried mesh as well but seems I cannot have 6 meshes????

 

Create seven sprites (digits 0 through 6).
Create a class where you pass it an integer value, such as DisplayValues(123456).
Have this method parse out each digit, and determine which sprite to display for each position.

Create six (or however many digits wide you need) Image objects.
The Image objects should be children of one GameObject (Score or whatever). Keeps things tidy.
Name each Image like 'Digit1', 'Digit2', etc.
Change the sprite of these images in the above method.

 

never thought of sprites... I thought they were for 2D?? this is 3D?? can I still use them??? I will give it a try... many thanks...

 

I had imagined this in 2D. But yes, you can place UI Image objects in 3D world space.

Optionally, you could use a flat 3D model with two triangles per character - so 12 triangles to create 6 digits.
Create a texture map containing all 7 digits (0 through 6).
In code, dynamically update the uv coordinates (per digit triangle pair) to the expected digit position from the texture map.
This sounds more difficult, but fully feasible. Easier if you have a mesh utility library to hide the messy details.