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What is the most efficient way to fade-in/out gameobjects?

Discussion in 'Timeline' started by adenovirux, Aug 1, 2020.

  1. adenovirux

    adenovirux

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    What I need is to control the activation/inactivation of 3D gameobjects in timeline with fade-in/fade-out effects, that's all.
    The thing is, I can't use the ease-in/ease-out through activation track. So does it means I have to start two track? one activation and one animation? also the mesh.renderer.Material._Alpha not really works, so I have to use the material._color for each of the gameobject, if they have different color. Are there anyone knows a more sophisticate way to manage it?

    Thanks very much in advance!
     
    adenovirux, Aug 1, 2020
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  2. seant_unity

    seant_unity

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    2 tracks is a common way to do this, and animating the material alpha/color is one way, as long as the material is using a transparent shader (the material might need to be changed).

    Fading objects is something that is always more complex than it seems it should be :)
     
    seant_unity, Aug 3, 2020
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  3. koirat

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    @adenovirus are you satisfied with dither transparency (less error prone/ uglier) or you got to have standard transparency as sean_unity said, might be more complex and full of surprises ;)
     
    koirat, Aug 3, 2020
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