Damage and feedback

The Health component allows objects to have health and therefore to take damage during attacks, but we also want more UI feedback for the player during a battle. Specifically, when the player is attacked and hit by a zombie, the screen should throb or flash red, indicating that damage has been sustained. We can achieve this using a colored sprite overlay whose opacity is animated from transparent to visible and then back again. To achieve this, create the colored overlay by choosing GameObject | UI | Image to create a new image object. Name this Panel_Damage_Throbber. Add this as a child object of the Health UI Canvas created earlier. Select red for the Color field to express danger, damage, and pain, or you can use a custom texture:

Creating a red, damage UI object

Use the RectTransform tool (T), as shown in the following screenshot, to resize the image plane to fill the canvas, and thereby the screen. Then, use anchoring to attach each corner anchor to the respective...