How to make effect for UI in Unity ?

Pain

Hello guys,

I would like to ask if there's any way to make effect for UI in Unity??? As I do some research we can use particle for some specific effects but I know that there are other ways to do other effects that I don't know how to explain exactly. 
Such as jumping button, lighting around button's border, sparkle on button, etc...
Something like the link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_n0OEBCHf0

My dev friend told me that I should learn shader to do effect but as far as I know shader is related to coding so I don't think I can learn it. I have experience doing some simple effect in Flash but since my team don't know how to deal with action script so I have to learn another way.

If you guys have any advice please help me.

Cheer,

Eric Chadwick

What have you searched so far?

For example this points to a lot of resources and methods. Have you read these?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ui effects unity

Eric Chadwick

Also, unity has a node-based shader editor, which is not difficult to learn. You can look at my sketchbook for examples.

Pain

Eric Chadwick said:

What have you searched so far?

For example this points to a lot of resources and methods. Have you read these?
https://www.google.com/search?q=ui effects unity

Yes I did, but most of them are using particles and I prefer learning something else that is more specific about UI field. Anyways, thank you for your suggestion about node-based shader, I will give it a try.

Eric Chadwick

These effects are all achievable on regular meshes, using animated shaders.

It's not difficult using a shader editor. Then you animate them using Unitys standard animation system.

Good luck! Show us your tests, it's good to seek feedback as you work on it.

lefix

I think a lot of these are just keyframe animations in Unity

Pain

Eric Chadwick said:

These effects are all achievable on regular meshes, using animated shaders.

It's not difficult using a shader editor. Then you animate them using Unitys standard animation system.

Good luck! Show us your tests, it's good to seek feedback as you work on it.

Sorry for being late, after playing around, I decided to use keyframe animation in Unity combined with some effect textures and especially particle system to do those effects. Sorry that I can't post my test here since I'm not allowed to do so, I did it on commercial project and still WIP.

lefix said:

I think a lot of these are just keyframe animations in Unity

Yes, you're right .