Now that we have a functioning animator controller, it’s time to accept player input so that we can actually pause the game and bring up the menu.

So far in our efforts to create an animated pause menu, we have set up the required UI elements for the menu, and created the animation clip that will drive the transition between the paused and unpaused…

Following the setup of all the UI elements for the pause menu in part one, we’re now going to create an animation for the transition between the unpaused and paused states of the game. As a reminder, here’s a preview of…

Today, we’re going to start building an animated pause menu in Unity3D. We’ll go through setting up the UI, animating the UI elements, creating the animator controller / state machine to transition from unpaused to paused, and actually…

Let’s take a look at some common problems and anti-patterns when using lerp in Unity, and how to correct them.

Anti-pattern #1: lerping with Time.time