Introduction

What is Digits FX?

Digits FX is a high-performance animated number display system for Unity. It renders fully customizable numeric displays in both UI Canvas and 3D World Space, complete with smooth transitions, visual effects, and built-in progress bars. Ideal for scores, health bars, timers, damage numbers, countdowns, and any numeric feedback in your game.

Key Features

Rendering Modes

• DigitsUI — Canvas/RawImage-based displays for HUD elements (scores, health, timers).
• Digits3D — MeshRenderer-based displays for world-space numbers (floating damage, labels).

Animations & Transitions

• 8 transition effects — Scroll, Morph, Fade, Flip Vertical, Flip Horizontal, Flip Clock, Pixelate, and None.
• Smooth easing — Linear, EaseIn/Out, Cubic, Bounce, and more easing functions.
• Pulse, Shake & Move — trigger visual feedback effects on value changes.

Visual Effects

• Glow, Fire, Ice, Glitter — built-in shader-based effects for eye-catching displays.
• Scan Lines & Glitch — retro/cyberpunk visual styles.
• Bevel, Shadows & Outlines — depth and readability enhancements.

Progress Bars

• Three layouts — Horizontal, Vertical, and Circular progress bars.
• Damage indicators — animated damage segment that trails behind the current value.

Performance & Pooling

• Zero GC allocations — custom number formatting engine.
• Digits3DPool — built-in object pooling for efficient creation and reuse of 3D displays.
• Profile system — shared profiles with automatic per-instance cloning.

Requirements

Next Steps

• Quick Start — get your first animated number display running in under 5 minutes.
• Core Concepts — understand profiles, effects, progress bars, and format strings.
• Scripting Support (C#) — full API reference for runtime control.