Transitions Are In :O

This was way harder than it needed it to be! augh.

I made a basic TransitionManager and such, in its own scene, taking inspiration from GMTK's use of the system.

I made a black rectangle that sweeps across the screen, had some issues with how it would scale to fit the screen, and then had a clever idea via the Image fill Type in Unity, which is mostly used for health bars; and got all the logic in for changing scenes.

once this works, I'll get the player character working again!

Oh no

 no no

no.

The transition flickered. Why?

Maybe the camera is deactivating. So I recorded myself working the transition system. No problem there; the screen still shows everything else except the transition.

Maybe I need more cameras? I give the transition manager a camera of its own. nope.

Maybe I need to wait for all the scenes to load first? I edit the scripts and add in a ton of boilerplate. nope.

Maybe I need to move the transition scene to the top? to the top of its own scene? make it the active scene? Nope.

Maybe I need to edit camera settings? Nope

Maybe I need to separate things across scenes? NOPE

Maybe the transition is turning invisible IT IS! whyyyyyyy?

Aha! The animation for the transition is jumping from the swipe in to the swipe out and becoming invisible in the split second it changes But Only Sometimes.

Why?

Maybe the exit time is wrong? I'll watch a video about it. nope.

Maybe the animation tree needs another node? nope.

Maybe the transition timing is wrong? Nope.

Change the transition timing. Nope.

Change the transition timing. NOPE

Change the transition timing. NOPE

Change the transition timing. NOPE

Change the transition timing. NOOOOOPE.

Add a bit of buffer time to each animation YES.

Now I only have the other 90% to do.

So HERE are the working transitions:

Gif won't animate. Search Google. Nope. Give up. Yep. I'll hopefully release the demo sometime and you all can see :/

To even add the cover image on this post, I had to screenshot it from the demo's page since I don't have it saved :/

Spent like 3 hours working on this and listening to OKGO, etc. My goodness I hope this game is fun!

Turns out I got some followers too, after saying that's useless since I never make anything. So now I've got to go and make something. Like a game that's fun and enjoyable, my goodness I just want to make worthless things how come I've got to actually make useful and worthwhile things :)

Thanks and I'll maybe post again :D