[SOLVED] Fading UI Text?

Hello, I've been doing research on how to write a script to fade my UI Text i have in a Unity Scene. However, everything i find is related to the old Unity <GUIText>. If someone could help me figure out how to write a new script for UI or point me in a direction that would be great! Here is an old GUI text fade script i found while following tutorials, its irrelevant now i assume with unity 5.x

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class UIfadeOutText : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.  
7. const float period = 4.0f;
8.  
9. void Update ()
10.     {
11.         if(Time.time > period)
12.         {
13.             Destroy(gameObject);
14.         }
15.            
16.             Color colorOfObject = GetComponent<GUIText>().material.color;
17.  
18.             float prop = (Time.time / period);
19.  
20.             colorOfObject.a = Mathf.Lerp(1, 0, prop);
21.  
22.             GetComponent<GUIText>().material.color = colorOfObject;
23.     }
24. }

 

add a "canvas group" component (from "layout" menu group), change it's alpha value.

 

Not too much to change.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEngine.UI;//Added this
3. using System.Collections;
4. public class UIfadeOutText : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6. const float period = 4.0f;
7. void Update ()
8.     {
9.         if(Time.time > period)
10.         {
11.             Destroy(gameObject);
12.         }
13.          
14.             Color colorOfObject = GetComponent<Text>().color;//Changed this
15.             float prop = (Time.time / period);
16.             colorOfObject.a = Mathf.Lerp(1, 0, prop);
17.             GetComponent<Text>().color = colorOfObject;//Changed this
18.     }
19. }

 

ahhh, i see the whole reason i couldn't figure out how to change the UI text was because i wasn't including the unity UI engine library... I literally wrote 4 source codes wondering WTH am i doing wrong. Thanks so much for responding Chris!.