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Question by Gaming Worlds · Dec 23, 2015 at 10:56 PM · c#uiguicanvasprogramming

How to make a restart button pop up after character has died?

So I'm kind of new to this Canvas UI button and was wondering how to make a Restart button pop up after the character has died.

I already have a onclick script that restarts the level if it is pushed, but I don't know how to make the button not show up until the character has died.

Would it be somewhere along the lines of:

 (Button is invisible)
 
     if(dead)
     {
          //Make Button visible
     }
 

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Answer by lloladin · Dec 24, 2015 at 12:48 AM

you could use SetActive and assign the button in the editor like this

      public gameObject RestartButton
         
         if(dead)
              {
                   RestartButton.SetActive(true);
              }
 else
 {
  RestartButton.SetActive(false);
 }


this should make the gameobject button visisble aslong as the object is dead and not visisble aslong as the object is alive

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Answer by Harryliu · Dec 24, 2015 at 01:23 AM

Something like this will make the button invisible and disabled by setting the alpha value of the text and the button sprite to 0 - fully transparent, and by disabling the Button component to make it unclickable.

 #pragma strict
 import UnityEngine.UI;
 
 var restartButton : Button;
 var restartText : Text;
 var dead : boolean = false;
 
 function Start ()
 {
     restartButton.GetComponent(Image).color.a = 0.0;
     restartText.GetComponent(Text).color.a = 0.0;
     restartButton.GetComponent(Button).enabled = false;
 }
 
 function Update ()
 {
     if(dead == true)
     {
         restartButton.GetComponent(Button).enabled = true;
         restartButton.GetComponent(Image).color.a = 1;
         restartText.GetComponent(Text).color.a = 1;
 
     }
 
     else
     {
         restartButton.GetComponent(Button).enabled = false;
         restartButton.GetComponent(Image).color.a = 0;
         restartText.GetComponent(Text).color.a = 0;
     }
 }


hope it helps. although this might not be most convenient way, it's the only way I know.

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