I was following a Brackeys tutorial (credit where is due) in order to get back to speed with Unity after a long hiatus and he showed a kind of matrix-effect on game over that can be applied to multiple situations, so I decided to play with it and use it in my future (if any) games. This is how it looks like after a quick prototype re-using Longanizers concept art:
To start we’ll need to declare some variables to play with time:
// We'll declare a variable to store the slowness factor:
public float slowness = 10f;
// If 1 is regular time, we can use 1/x to make the time slower than regular time:
Time.timescale = 1f / slowness;
// In this specific project I use FixedUpdate() frame-rate, so we'll also alter the time using fixedDeltaTime:
Time.fixedDeltaTime = Time.fixedDeltaTime / slowness;
We use a Coroutine in order to stop the method execution until a new order is given:
// The time is already stopped at this moment, so if we only use 1f it will not be 1 second, but 10, we need to divide this by the slowness factor:
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / slowness);
We cannot forget to restore the time to regular time after our action has been completed:
// Restores time to its normal state:
Time.timeScale = 1f;
Time.fixedDeltaTime = Time.fixedDeltaTime;
Full code:
public float slowness = 10f;
public void EndGame()
{
StartCoroutine(RestartLevel());
}
IEnumerator RestartLevel()
{
Time.timeScale = 1f / slowness;
Time.fixedDeltaTime = Time.fixedDeltaTime / slowness;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / slowness);
Time.timeScale = 1f;
Time.fixedDeltaTime = Time.fixedDeltaTime;
}
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