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What are the notification animations called when user scores?
I hope this is OK that I'm asking, I just truly don't know where to start my search on how to achieve it.
I have a scoring system where a user collects items. I want to show on some part of the screen a scaling "+1 Gold!" and if they get 10 of them, then +1, +1, +1, +1... (x10). They can start small and scale up a bit, then fade away.
I'm not sure what I should do here, as I want to reuse this with different Item Types, like +1 Silver! Or maybe +1 and a picture of a gold coin, then a pic of a silver coin, etc.
What are these types of animations called? Achievement Notifications and similar searches don't really yield much in terms of a people looking for similar things, but they're so popular so I know I'm just missing the common terminology. Thank you!
I mean the name is kind of irrelevant, you are simply wanting to create an animation on a UI object, that's as simple as ... creating an animation on a UI object. If you don't know how to make animations then you should go look that up, because it is a core part of the Unity Editor. Afterwards its as simple as instantiating the objects as needed, you can do pooling or whatever, but it's all a very simple process with maybe 15 lines of code that handles the instantiations and assigning the text and such,
Search for "floating popup text". There are plenty of approaches. If your game is 2D you can do it on a UI canvas. If your game is 3D and you need the text to pop up over a specific object i think it would be better to spawn/setActive a 2D sprite on top of it (GameObject>2D Object>Sprite). This last approach works in both cases
