Why you should use code to animate your UI in Unity.

In this video we take a look at why you shouldn't animate your UI and why instead, you should be using a Tweening Library like Lean Tween!
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[@RumpledCode]

Jesus christ the production level of this video is incredible.

[@darcking99]

Important stuff: If you are going to use LeanTween to animate your UI, dont pass the GameObject itself to the LeanTween Methods, instead, pass the component RectTransform. If you pass the GameObject, it will not just mess up the animation (by not following the exact coordinates that you give it) but also it wont work if you change the proporcions of the pantalla. As an example : LeanTween.move(Panel.GetComponent(), new Vector3(0, -74, 0), .2f); Instead of just passing the GameObject.

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

I know it's too late, but isn't it better using (panel.transform as RectTransform) instead of GetComponent?

[@hop3studio511]

@@cannotfigureoutaname a better version will be get the rect transform on awake

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

@@hop3studio511 by still using a GetComponent?

[@hop3studio511]

@@cannotfigureoutaname just one times

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

@@hop3studio511 Right, my idea was to use ( as RectTransform) as casting, wondering if it's better than GetComponent, but yeah I got tunnel vision of the problem and in the bigger image you just cache the transform lol

[@demetresaghliani9048]

I have no idea how this is the first time I've seen you channel. The quality is among the very top! Thank you for your work.

[@His-Games]

when you spend 30 hours programming in your own tweening library because you don't know they already exist

[@ritvikmenon576]

You should make a video on how you did it and how others could make their own custom tweens!

[@DARK_AMBIGUOUS]

But some people like me refuse to not do anything 100% by hemselves

[@methanesulfonic]

well atleast you can brag about it on your resume and customize it to your hearts content

[@MasthaX]

Looks pretty cool, as a programmer I hate doing UI stuff and putting up motion clips, transitions and all that jazz. But obviously I know it's needed to deliver a good product. These tweening libs would make it much easier for me as I don't have to hassle with all the pretty animation clips and 50 animator controllers etc. I'm pretty sure it's also possible to extend the library and write your own custom transitions.

[@MeFirstGames]

I love a good Tween. DOTween is my guy.

[@gavintantleff]

Me First Games yikes

[@bilbostabbins1882]

@@gavintantleff wait why yikes

[@mpbMKE]

​@@bilbostabbins1882 "Tween" is also common slang for a child who is 10-12 years old, which is why most of us have just gone back to calling this "animating," so we don't sound like pedos. 😅

[@bilbostabbins1882]

@@mpbMKE I have never heard of that and its suspicious that you do; nonetheless quite weird

[@simoncodrington]

Certainly looks a lot simpler than the multitude of animations I've had to create for my games UI. Cheers for the library showcase :)

[@spxctreofficial]

Literally the "Mumbo Jumbo" of Unity. Great tutorial!

[@joaniepepin4968]

I love tweens and they are very powerful, however, I must say that they are really not artist friendly (by that I mean someone whose job it is to make something look nice with 0 experience in code). Yes, some of those libraries have visual editors, but I have yet to see one that is as easy to do something complex as the default Unity way. Personally, I've worked on dozens of games at a big company and our UI has never been a performance drain. Of course, if your game is top of the line and you need every bit of power to make that AI remain fluid, then go ahead, cut where you can afford, but for the majority of devs, especially indies, the default way is good enough. That said, the new UI workflow is a lot more performant. It does not fully support animations yet, but let's hope that once they integrate it, they will fix those issues!

[@luciorojas4278]

where could we check the performance cost of animating the UI with animator vs tweening? I find it very interesting as an artist

[@joaniepepin4968]

@@luciorojas4278 Check out the Unity Performances Profiler. There is a few good tutorials about it here on KZbin. It can tell you where your bottlenecks are and you could create the same animation multiple times using different methods and compare the time taken for each.

[@namename-zu8uk]

You love 12 year old tweens?....

[@leokatzzz]

Joanie Pépin FBI open up! Haha

[@MrProtjes]

I'd argue it's as much the coder's responsibility to make things look nice as it is the artist! You can go a long way with animating through code. It's not because you're a coder that you should have no feeling for aesthetics or animation!

[@insomnious52]

Nice stuff, nice production, nice volume levels!

[@martinmesserschmidt2717]

This might have been mentioned before, but there's no reason to use tween over Animator anymore :) From patchnotes In Unity 2019.3 "UI: Fixed performance issues with Animation by not dirtying the Layout if an Animation updates items. " This has been tested, there's no performance gain over using Tweens. It would be nice if the creator mentioned this in an edit or something so that people wouldn't have to bother with Tweens for no reason.

[@carlos3765]

Thanks. As a noob, I can't tell you how many times I have used a tutorial for something that ends up being outdated. I end up having to fix pieces of code and trade out elements that are simply not functional in the most recent LTS release.

[@jacques_koffaltretes]

It fixed performance issues, they not make it as efficient as tweening. You can see a null state in animator when nothing is being animated, showing the animator is constantly looping in the null state.

[@chocolateimage]

there are multiple reasons to use leantween: 1. one line of code 2. has easings 3. not a hassle to set up

[@wmetz1869]

@@chocolateimage There are multiple reassons to not use tweens: 1- You cant directly preview your tween animations. Time consuming. 2- Complex animations require complex code and this makes a lot of non-codder tilting. 3- It is a hassle to setup.

[@HAWXLEADER]

I used to tween(iTween), then I used Animations, now I use tweens again(DoTween). Now I know what needs tweening and what needs animations. (heavy complex motions with sound effects syncing, animations, simple bounces and transitions tweening! Managing transitions from every state to every state with animations was REALLY tedious! imagine having to move a button and now you need to move it in every transition animation!

[@IOSoraOI]

Don't know why I JUST found your channel but it took me 0.3f to hit subscribe.

[@TheDukeOfReason]

😂 that's a quick float!

[@zyansheep]

0.3f is not a measurement of time....

[@TheDukeOfReason]

@@zyansheep it is if you += Time.deltaTime

[@zyansheep]

@@TheDukeOfReason Hmm... doesn't seem humanly possible...

[@TheDukeOfReason]

Maybe that's because we're all really A.I inside a giant simulation, all carrying on our seemingly genuine lives via Time.deltaTime in void Update()...

[@brannanvitek1035]

Short, sweet, and to the point. Perfectly explained, brilliant editing, and EXACTLY what I searched google for. Thank you so much!

[@rickloyd8208]

I am using DoTween for years and now, when I thought I was doing it wrong and I had a plan to try move to animation, you are telling me that I should not do it :D The only downside is that you did not shared the most important part 3:57 - the actual code of effects you demonstrated at the end.

[@HAWXLEADER]

You should not use either exclusively. dotween is great for little things like bounces and procedural stuff but for complex things use animations.(like a title sequence or complex hand made transitions)

[@ElBARTO298]

he showed the code ? he is using delay on each element so one after the other comes later or what did you mean?

[@Jaypordy]

If anyone having issues with the positioning, use RectTransform component when you are tweening. LeanTween.moveY(Object.GetComponent(), 150f, 0.25f)

[@daexplodingpenis]

thank you this helped me so much

[@soma_donat]

Thanks I had this exact problem.

[@SamarthCat]

Thanks for telling me about leantween, I have been breaking my head trying to achieve the same effect with coroutines and now I have a solution

[@aqwcom]

As game dev and designer with a love for good UI and fine programmatic control, this channel is shading great.

[@marcoseliasmep]

That’s just perfect, I can’t believe I was not using it until today

[@WelshGuitarDude]

This still redraw everything that's how ui works, any change causes a redraw, tween doesn't stop that.

[@Manas-co8wl]

I came here expecting more of an artistic advice but this is correct. It doesn't matter what engine you use, any sort of change in position, scale, sprite, color, or whatever always requires a redraw. Tweening's no exception. Besides, there's going to be at least one draw call for UI every frame anyway, because ui shares the same explicit window with all the other non-ui moving objects populating the background. GPU is extremely fast and UI draws which are almost always 2D are very inexpensive. Whatever engine you use, batch and cull your ui assets correctly, use atlases to render with few draw calls. Animating has little to no affect to graphic performance.

[@PredGuy]

@@Manas-co8wl Having an animator with even an idle animation that does nothing makes the canvas rebuild and there is a difference between drawing and "batch building" the canvas. I agree that GPUs are fast these days but alot of games are made for mobile and those games usually have a lot of moving ui parts. A tween if i remember it correctly will rebuild it when active but when its done it stops rebuilding the canvas. meanwhile to get that on an animator you have to disable the component fully. One way to get get some performance back if you really want to use animations is to split canvases into sub canvases, so when a element forces a rebuild it only affects that canvas and not the full ui. There might have been some changes in newer unity versions, but i doubt it. some sauce: 24:00 -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/lajbmqedmd1gi6s forum.unity.com/threads/unity-ui-performance-tips-sharing-my-findings.524916/ learn.unity.com/tutorial/optimizing-unity-ui#5c7f8528edbc2a002053b5a0

[@jiehongjiang5826]

This are not 100% correct . watch the end of this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/lajbmqedmd1gi6s .The problem is that animator dirties the UI even if it's not actually animating anything. But apparently we only want to dirty the UI when there is something "dirty". That's why you should not rely on the animator and write your own transforming code or use a tween library.

[@raystenr5828]

@@PredGuy Disabling animator from script isn't any harder than writing tweens, is it?

[@PredGuy]

@@raystenr5828 Its not "hard" to disable the component but it will probobly lead to more code to track when animations are done and disabling the animator after them than actually using tweens would need and it can lead to enoying problems with the animations depending how the controller is set up, for example: say that we have four states "idle_hidden", "show", "idle_show" and "hide". (idle_hidden is the entry state) then we run the show animation and we track the animation finish and disable the animator when we reach "idle_show", all good, now we want to hide it so we enable the animator.. and we are in "idle_hidden" without animating "hide" since it is the entry state. There are of course ways around it but in my opinion its just much more work and makes messy code/anim controllers.

[@Eriadel]

This is the valid approach for this job. Thank you for this explanation.

[@DJLKM1]

Well from a performance standpoint tweening sounds like a good way of not having to sort out optimization for that section later in development. Im fairly new to Unity etc (been at it for about 3yrs) I had read and seen this thing called tween, knew it stood for between but until this video had no real idea what it was, so big thanks for that.

[@iteratedofficial]

Words can't even begin to describe how thankful I am for Unity and these wonderful libraries...

[@CraftBasti]

Another method of animation that is even cheaper performance wise but more tricky to configure: shaders. For most of what you want to do with the ui, a shader will get it done with virtually no performance cost

[@GameDevNerd]

What do you mean? Using the shader to transform the vertices of UI elements like moving them around and scaling them and doing other fancy tricks with them? In DirectX or OpenGL that's damn near the only way to do it ... you can of course use the CPU to do matrix, quaternion and vector math during your update cycle and then construct a new transform matrix and bind that to the shader, but I agree it'd be faster to let the GPU perform all that math ... however, that becomes tricky at a whole new level, and I don't think UIs are generally a performance bottleneck for most games. Now, in a game like a Paradox 4x grand strategy with a super sophisticated UI full of hundreds of buttons and toggles and sliders then hell yeah the UI is a very, very serious performance consideration ... despite the lack of high-poweres 3D graphics, Crusader Kings 3 will all but set an old PC on fire with all the complex calculations, UI rendering and game logic running behind the scenes. I tried to run it on an old laptop once and it took about 30mins to start a new game and then I couldn't even scroll around on the map ... just teleport somewhere after I let the mouse sit still for 5 mins. Needless to say I uninstalled it off that PC and just played it on my good one, lol.

[@MeFirstGames]

I love Tweening. For Unity, my choice is DOTween, but LeanTween is great too. However, I still use Animations during elaborate UI animations. It's great because I can hand off to an Animator and they can make the animator look way better than I ever could (Tweening included). But I agree, default should be Tween and digression should be used when using Animators in UI and even regular GameObjects due to the overhead.

[@squidwardfromua]

You perfectly made me interested in the thing I've not heard about 5 minutes ago, while I'm pretty apathetic. Congratulations

[@jam54]

Also love the fact that you sometimes insert some "quotes" on the screen

[@bmmashat]

Great background song, seriously. Also, fantastic video. Thank you for all your work into making knowledge accessible.

[@florianwolf1361]

Use DOTween Pro, its the best. I built lots of abstract UI scripts from which components can derrive from, such as 'FadeablePopup', which can be faded in an out through public functions by tweening the alpha of canvas group. With DOTween its also really easy to tween the properties of different Unity components (Transform, MeshRenderer, CanvasGroup...) with some handy extention methods. For instance, to fade in a Canvas Group, all you do is: _myCanvasGroup.DOFade(targetAlpha, duration); The system also supports chained Tweens (called Sequences), delays, intervalls and custom callbacks. Along with OdinInspector, this asset goes into each of my projects.

[@Studio-df7ge]

Thank you soo much. I was so tired messing with animation curves and 0...1 timers with deadzones! This saved my life ahaha

[@DylanBurke]

Loving your videos so far. Format is perfect, volume is perfect, very nice flow and easy to follow. Keep it up!

[@DylanBurke]

Also, I was animating UI wrong... :D

[@denizyunusgogus]

Started using this instead of Animator now, thank you, it is such good and i didn't even know this. Thank you!

[@ilkercankaya3779]

In Unity 2019.3.0 the note says: "UI: Fixed performance issues with Animation by not dirtying the Layout if an Animation updates items." Does this mean this issue is revolved?

[@theinternet6313]

Have you figured out if thats the case or not?

[@ilkercankaya3779]

@@theinternet6313 sadly no

[@kotem13]

www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/fgb4ks Here, the first comment shows a performance graph that shows that the UI only consumes CPU when actually moving. I haven't checked it myself, but if you trust that guy... XD

[@MohammadFaizanKhanJ]

You saved me! I was arguing with one of the fellow developers that don't use animation for UI transitions.

[@ivopalchev]

Really good quality video and you make very good point that it is cleaner and more effective to use Tweening in unity especially for UI. I got very excited from the things I saw in the video, however I think there is one major thing missing in these tweening assets.Correct me if im wrong, but with the unity animation I can control the exit time of an animation, so no mater how fast you click on a button, it will play the animation whenever it gets back to the "idle" state. I tried using tweening with UI but unfortunately with tweening I don't know when the tween has finished andI haven't been ably to find anywhere how to fix this issue. Really hope I am wrong and this could be done with some tween engine as it will be much more cleaner, especially for project with many UI animations.

[@spiritw0rld]

Very informative - I was just wondering would tweening be better solution for my UI animating, and saw this video. 5 min answering the question without blabbering. I liked it! Instantly subscribed.

[@moved159]

I already knew about tweening, but i learned a lot

[@artemisDev]

Another nice GameDev channel for my collection. Thanks!

[@Tikodev]

Wow, I just used this to animate my UI and I am amazed. Thank you so much.

[@Ethirical]

Awesome video. So useful. All I wanted to do was fade in a PostFX Volume Weight and got a library that can tween... like... everything! Thanks so much!

[@processor8267]

You are so right about tweens man it just such a time saver.

[@aunabbas8582]

Yes. I use dotween, sometime manually do it with lerp also.

[@CaladriusTV]

This video came up coincidentally JUST as I was starting to put together a UI for a game I'm working on. Thank you for saving me a migraine. Insta-sub

[@theral056]

Google has you covered man! The omniscient AI knows what you desire even before you do ;)

[@CaladriusTV]

@@theral056 it certainly did because it changed everything for me. Since leaving my last comment I use LeanTween for everything and recreated it in my job's in-house AR/game dev software because I couldn't live without it

[@MeFirstGames]

Great tips, Tweening is fast and powerful

[@陳凱勛-p1b]

DoTweenPro has editors of animation. You should try it.Each animation could be a component attached to the GameObject.

[@yuchen3587]

This is extremely useful! I cannot believe I didn't know it before!

[@heybishop]

Zohmygosh... Now I want to redo my entire UI. This is awesome! Thank you for opening my eyes to Lean Tween.

[@_wayneman_]

I've always written coroutines to animate my UI elements. It's really easy to feed them some data like duration and AnimationCurves and you can even chain them by using something like "yield return StartCoroutine(MyCoroutine());" If I had to guess, that's exactly what LeanTween does aswell.

[@diegohartmann1611]

and i guess it's a more performing way of animating ui, isn't it? cuz canvas won't update UI elements every single frame

[@AlexSprites]

Genuinely fantastic videos, glad I discovered you!

[@feliscape]

It'd be great if you could share the UITween script you use. This is a fantastic tutorial.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

You produce some great content that stands on its own. You don't need these annoying clickbaity titles. Just present good content.

[@DewaPoyo]

Please make a vid tutorial how you manage/ centralize the tween controller for all the UI. Cheers!

[@Mr.Epsilion]

Love you and your channel bro, keep it up to good work. My best sensei 🌹

[@psychospoiler]

Never used tweening before. Can i create more complex interactions though ? Like changing multiple target graphics on hover ? For example can i change both the text color and background color of a button at the same time ?

[@TheBurriagas]

Excellent video! I would love to see some benchmarks, especially on mobile.

[@simons5910]

I am absolutely loving your videos!

[@AdrianKlimczak13]

What about legacy animation instead of animator Vs tween is there significant performance difference?

[@smahdifaghih2001]

Thanks man! i was trying to make a game similar to JellyShift and i had problems with turn Animations(because of player cube's scale) and i fixed that problem using LeanTween. Thanks

[@angiemon897]

Hi, thanks for the tutorial! Is there a way to define definitive locations on the screen (canvas) like "bottom corner" or align to bottom corner or something? All this pixel fiddeling is not only annoying and tedious, it's also not really great when screen sizes differ :( (for example, macBooks solution is 16:10, not 16:9) Is there a way to do this? Also, with defining pixels, it's always try and error a lot for me. Like, the correct values don't coincide with the rect transform values in the inspector at ALL. What gives? Also, is there a way to tell a tween HUD Icon "go to this game object" with moving transitions? The issue being the same as before: different screen resolutions look very different if you're using pixel values to define the location. Is it just me or does tweening UI kinda feel like webdesign ^^°

[@ivanbarzani]

Looks very nice and powerful...

[@olivierginiaux7466]

Ok so it looks like I haven't been animating my UI wrong in Unity. Thanks for that title...

[@ThomasChen-ur2gt]

How do you do the "on mouse hover" effects with tweening? Is there a way to interrupt a tween when it's playing?

[@ThomasChen-ur2gt]

Still don't know how to do it besides using animator

[@TheS1L3NT]

Can you make your UITweener script available for download?

[@gayan1742]

This would help parametrized, and reuse animations. Unity's animator, animation workflow is hard to reuse. Thanks for the tip.

[@iercan1234]

i was just about to animate my UI you saved my life

[@Life-Glug]

Wow this is a very well made and informative video. You helped me a great deal. Thank you.

[@soufianebenamer7585]

Amazing tut Keep it up Looking forward the next tut

[@eeromutka]

I'm not that familiar with unity, but it's ridiculous that updating an UI element every frame would be expensive. Look at immediate-mode GUI libraries, that's their whole idea and they're super efficient. And how do you think the tweening library works if not updating them every frame? Of course, unity could just be slow, I'm not sure.

[@nickholl]

I see the benefits, but as a UI artist, I more often than not want to control a multitude of things on a screen rather than just generically fade away or scale away a panel. eg. there might be half a dozen elements on the pages that I want to disappear at different times and have differing effects applied to them. - colours changes, mask changes, text tracking changes - the list goes on. Im wondering if there' some kind of package out there that would allow a mix of animation timelines and tweened animations maybe so we could have the best of both worlds?

[@doopiewop3834]

I was so dreading to have to make animations, thank god for this video, more importantly thank you :)

[@HandsOnKnowledge]

Amazing stuff as always 👌 thank you for sharing all this knowledge, would u mind making an advanced minimap tutorial like how can I show objects on the edge of the minimap when they r not visible in the camera?

[@tiarapertiwi7664]

This is what i've been looking for! Thanks!

[@Ghoggles]

Wont destroying a UI object just create a bunch of unnecessary garbage? I guess unless you are only expected to use the UI element once per cycle. Still I think performance wise it would be better to just set inactive right? (I'm an amateur so this is a teach me question). Thanks for the awesome video.

[@nalankadi1654]

When you say something is expensive, what does that mean? Like if I had a main menu with 500 UI animations going, is the main menu going to function noticeably different to the user relative to how it'd function with 1 UI animation? Or this expense purely something hidden from the user's experience?

[@overloader7900]

Expenses' results may differ from low fps to inability to launch the thing at all

[@HijackHornet]

Nice video ! It would have been cool if you shared your custom script so that we can see how it works ^^

[@enolya]

Referencing, thank you for the video!

[@kasquez]

Wait, so if I want to put a sprite based animation on the UI, by doing it using code I'd be achieving the same performance wise as the tweening showed here? Or I'm completely wrong and doing it will always be expensive? >_>

[@018FLP]

You basically saved my project... You see... i'm an animator, soo....I was in the introduction of the game and already had 12 animations. And would implement UI animations RN... I'll do everything in Tween, it'll be so much easier

[@morcatna4767]

I want to be a UI artist for games but I don't really like programming, For a job does the UI artist program or just focus on 2D art? I think knowing how programming is applied is important when designing but I just want to be sure. Great video! Subbed!

[@GameDevGuide]

You will be much more valuable (especially in Indie Teams) if you also know how to code the UI you design. So I'd recommend it. But traditionally in a larger studio many of the UI Artists focus on the Design and will offload to a UI Programmer. I value learning the code side because think it better influences your decisions, and helps you understand what your limitations are.

[@morcatna4767]

@@GameDevGuide Awesome! Thank you for the reply! Will do my best 😉

[@leagueofvaleu3687]

Man your channel is perfect!

[@buckyBitBoy]

Really amazing, I´ll try it for sure!

[@moti1s]

How is that style called, the one you use in a scene here? ^^ I want to try going for that polygonal clean look too, but idk where to start or how is it called xd

[@miawiebe5136]

i didnt know there was an animator. ive just been tweening this whole time

[@juicedup14]

Dont ui elements have animations built into them natively tho?

[@mpbMKE]

My only critique here is the loose usage of the term "tween." The animator method also creates in-betweens, and the interpolation between keys is still "tweening," in the classic keyframed animation sense. What you're really talking about is programmatic, or keyless animation. Also... animators really don't like using that term anymore. You don't hear it very often, for pretty obvious reasons. We either say "interpolation" or refer specifically to the curve so no one accidentally flags us to any federal watchlists. 😂

[@Vadimskyi]

Nice video. I use DOTween library in my projects.

[@dironin2363]

thanks buddy, you're my life saver!

[@bunggo9914]

Thank you so much this helped me a lot!

[@MiDnYTe25]

Apparently this is not true since 2019.3, and the UpdateBatches are only called when actual animation occurs. So anyone watching this today, at least do a sanity check before throwing out your already set up animations.

[@sebastianfeistl]

This is perfect! Exactly what I need for my upcoming mobile game :)

[@bibbisbibbis]

Good point. Good tip. But you are not going to convince an artist without coding knowledge to go from a 100% visual tool to using a non visual tool that requires page after page of code (referring to your own example at the end there) to achieve the same lively animation result. It's always the exact same problem with doing anything in Unity. So. Much. Coding.

[@sebaspi]

as someone coming from video editing and renders trying to do everything in real time is counter intuitive as you can render many items in the ui and display them as sprites? that's my guess but I'm still learning.

[@shaolin_tcg4727]

So glad I found this thanks homie

[@ibra.h]

Why not use Vector3.zero rather than new Vector3(0,0,0)?

[@SarahStarmer]

Anyone know how to fix "Assertion failed on expression: 'task.rasterData.vertexBuffer == NULL' UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr) "

[@marcdirian6370]

Hi and thank's for your video. I saw in your code that you use Canvas Group. I use it in my project to group 4 buttons choices. I'd like to make them appear from down to up when I click on a button play. What solution can I use using LeanTween of course, please ? thank's

[@marvertjaysonneyra457]

to be honest, i feel much more comfortable scripting than messing around in unity animator. so this is perfect for me!

[@user-dm5qi4nb6l]

is there a better option to Lean Tween? like with more functionality, visually appealing and with often updates? Or it's Lean Tween definitely the way to go?

[@causticlasagne5497]

Yeah I bet tweening is great, but if you're really performance conscious you could have animators deactivated on inactive UI windows. This is my approach, really having one animator constantly updating the UI actually works well in Unity when adding new UI elements (such as complex layout items to a layout list) which actually requires a canvas refresh to work properly. There are certain circumstances where I would use it, like your floating coins for example. But the animator exists for a reason and it works great with UI. There are far more things you can do with the animator that aren't possible with tweening.

[@UnityInstitute]

Really good info !! Thx bro, keep going :)

[@shawnpotter7161]

This was really handy, thanks!