Screen Fade - best practices?

Hi all,

Throughout the past few weeks, I've felt the need to have some sort of screen fade when transitioning either between scenes or between destinations in scenes. I had a look around and could only find suggestions of using a giant canvas/plane and attaching it to the HMD, using some method of altering the transparency such as Color.Lerp. Problems that came from this method included objects clipping through the canvas, requiring a custom shader to prevent this from happening.

Although these methods generally work fine, I was curious to know if anyone has any better ideas that are perhaps more adaptable/easier to use, or if the aforementioned method is the best we have.

Thank you!

 

Custom image effect attached to camera?

 

Could you elaborate please? I've never had any experience with custom image effects (still relatively new to Unity).

 

You could add a Screen Overlay effect to the camera and assign a solid black texture. Set the Intensity property to 0. To fade out, gradually increase Intensity to 1.