Making a growing number

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Hi everyone

I want to make some kind of presentation with Unity, this project includes numerical statistics so I want to make them look alive with the growing "animation". My problem is that even with a Coroutine this number is shown instantly.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class grownumber : MonoBehaviour {
     public int limit;
     private int counter;
     private Text text_n;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         text_n = GameObject.Find ("number").GetComponent<Text>();
         counter = 0;
         limit = 60000;
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         
     }
 
     void grow(){
         
         for(int i=0;i<limit;i++){
             StartCoroutine ("count");
         }
     }
 
     void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other){
         if (other.tag == "Player") {
             print ("collider");
             grow ();
         }
     }
         
     IEnumerator count(){
         yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.5f);
         counter+=1;
         text_n.text = ""+counter+"";
     }
 }

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Answer by Mmmpies · Jun 05, 2016 at 07:12 PM

How about adding the start time in start and if Time.time > Starttime + 0.5f show text.

 private float StartTime;
 private bool shownText =false;
 
 void Start(){
      StartTime = Time.time;
 
 
 void Update(){
      if(Time.time > StartTime + 0.5f && shownText == false)
      {
           ShowTextFunction();
           shownText = true;
      }

Should work and if you want to do it every .5 seconds just have that function reset StartTime and the bool to false.

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Dgrohl91 · Jun 05, 2016 at 08:35 PM 0

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I get the same result, but thanks. Maybe I've misunderstood your message. My code now look like this:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class subircifra : MonoBehaviour {
     public int limite;
     private int contador;
     private Text texto;
     private float startTime;
     private bool shownText;
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
         text_n = GameObject.Find ("50$").GetComponent<Text>();
         counter = 0;
         limit = 60;
         startTime = Time.time;
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         if(Time.time > startTime + 0.5f && shownText == false){
             text_n.text = ""+counter+"";
         }
     }
 
     void grow(){
         while (counter < limit) {
             counter++;
         }
         
     }
 
     void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other){
         if (other.tag == "Player") {
             print ("collider");
             grow ();
         }
     }
 }

kristof1104 Dgrohl91 · Jun 05, 2016 at 08:43 PM 0

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try changing the grow function to:

 void grow(){
       counter++;
 }

Dgrohl91 kristof1104 · Jun 05, 2016 at 08:50 PM 0

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But if I do so, the counter will be increased without a limit, and I have a goal so to speak

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