[KINDA SOLVED] Fade In Spawned Object

Heey,

I got this piece of code; http://hastebin.com/iyikededin.coffee
But I want the spawned "Bullet" to fade in when it spawns.
Fading out will be optionally ;3

So... How?

- Pr0totype2

 

I think you could use material lerp on the bullet: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.Lerp.html

Starting from an invisible material and ending with the material you wish for the bullet have in the end.

 

Thanks, but wouldn't it be better if I make the visibility of the bullet 0 at start, and in 0,2 seconds, visibility will be 100?
And it goes through the 0 to 100 in 0,2 seconds?

 

Yeah, that would work. These threads have good stuff on manipulating the alpha channel:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/395886/vanish-one-object-with-renderermaterial.html
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/494982/make-a-gameobject-lerp-transparency.html

If you want to change the amount of time the change from invisible to visible you should be able to do that by changing the float 'duration' variable if your code is similar to the one in the material lerp example.

 

Alright, thanks!

 

Not sure if this is horrible way to go about this, but I achieved this by adding an LOD group to my object, and then from script, setting LODGroup.localReferencePoint to something really far away like new Vector3(99999999,0,9999999) and then invoking a fade in method after a delay where I reset the localReferencePoint to its original. Then just change the fade mode on the LOD group component to cross fade and check Animate cross-fading

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. [RequireComponent(typeof(LODGroup))]
6. public class LODFade : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.   // Start is called before the first frame update
9.   Vector3 ogRefPoint;
10.   LODGroup lodGroup;
11.   void Awake()
12.   {
13.       lodGroup = GetComponent<LODGroup>();
14.       ogRefPoint = lodGroup.localReferencePoint;
15.       lodGroup.localReferencePoint = new Vector3(99999,0,99999);
16.       Invoke("FadeIn", 0.2f);
17.   }
18.  
19.   void FadeIn() {
20.     lodGroup.localReferencePoint = ogRefPoint;
21.   }
22. }