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Menu Transition Effects? (Animations, etc.)

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by IsaiahKelly, Sep 2, 2014.

  1. IsaiahKelly

    IsaiahKelly

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    The new GUI system has a great built-in feature for button state transition effects, but what about transition effects for entire menus? For example: animating a main menu out of the scene while moving the options menu in. I haven't found any tutorials on such a feature so I assume it doesn't exist.

    Are we supposed to just use the standard animation system for such effects? I've already implemented a very simple, but very useful system of my own for a custom menu setup that could actually be used with the new GUI, but a built-in feature would be much more powerful.
     
  2. superpig

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    I believe using the animation system is the intention, yes.

    (I've actually submitted a package for quickly building menu screens to the Asset Store, including the sort of transitions you're talking about... just waiting for them to approve it now).
     
  3. IsaiahKelly

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    Apparently you're correct, I've discovered that this is very briefly mentioned in the UI overview video at the 22:18 mark. Hopefully they'll make an official learn video that goes over it in a little bit more detail.