How to Make an Animated Dotted Line in Unity 🔍 (the Easiest and Most Efficient Way!)

[@jussirautiainen3784]

That is a really neat way to animate the line ... sweet! You know that I love Unity because of the community and content like this, thanks!

[@seangailey9035]

If you change the corner vertices to be 1 instead of 0, the line doesn't get skewed/warped, but it adds a weird melding animation of the sprite at each turn. I'm not sure what I like better. I think I'll probably end up adding a new line renderer at each turn and see how that works out. Thanks for the video!

[@dilanovich]

Thanks so much for this. It's exactly what I needed for my game and I learned quite a bit about how unity handles textures.

[@wildcockatielgames]

Awesome! Happy it helped you!

[@i.k4854]

Really helpfull tutorial ! You got a new Subscriber.

[@wildcockatielgames]

Happy it helped you!

[@kozavr]

About the coordinates you should have mentioned Use World Space check box. In your case the line listens only the Position field because the Use World Space check box is checked. If you unckeck it, the line will follow the object it's attached to

[@wildcockatielgames]

Thanks for pointing this out. You're right. I didn't consider this as in my game the objects never move so the line will never move. But if the object is moving and the line renderer is attached to it, you should uncheck world space and use local coordinates instead.

[@razeenag8478]

Great and detailed tutorial

[@AdrianRosarioPR]

Thank you so much for this amazing video it really helped me out.

[@kozavr]

Somewhere at 11:22 in Animation View you use a material Main_Tex_ST. Where does this come from? I didn't see it before in the tutorial. Could you explain that please?

[@wildcockatielgames]

It should appear under the list of possible animation options, but you have to have added a material to the line renderer first. If your line renderer doesn't have a material it won't show up in the list of properties to add.

[@DiegoPerezUU]

Rly helpful thank you!

[@杨悍文]

how do you download with white background and white icon?I cant find where to change the color

[@wildcockatielgames]

I show how to colour the sprite at 5:07. But if you want to remove the background click the "Studio" button at the top-left of the page and set the dropdown to "Background". Then set type to "None" (this will remove the background)

[@杨悍文]

And one more question the animator controller doest work when my linernder has several points?

[@wildcockatielgames]

It should work no matter how many points you have. Make sure you've set a material for the line renderer.

[@杨悍文]

@@wildcockatielgames Thanks for your reply,I'll try later

[@SirFrosty84]

Thank you very much!

[@SirFrosty84]

The more points you add the less sharp of a turn, don't make it the same coordinates, make it slightly different. For example if you want to turn at point (1,1) make 2 more points; one at (0.9,0.9) and (1.1,1.1)

[@wildcockatielgames]

Thank you for the tip! Will be trying this out next time I'm dealing with a line renderer. The "curved" line issue has always been one of those little things I haven't found a great solution for.

[@MisterBr0wn]

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[@phambaoha170]

Wow, awsome

[@MoonJellyGames]

Quick note: You don't need to worry about the Z-position at all if you're in 2D. Set all of the points to zero. Just make sure the sorting laying is in front of background graphics, as needed.

[@petersnayde4873]

Don't forget to set "Render Mode" to "Screen Space - Camera" or it won't work!