Using the GameObject's alpha as our starting alpha value

It may be that the game designer has set the alpha value of a GameObject in the Inspector window to the initial value they want. So, let's enhance our code to allow this to be indicated by checking a public Boolean flag variable in the Inspector window and adding code to read and use the GameObject's alpha if that option is chosen.

Do the following:

1. In the Inspector window, click Color picker for the Albedo material and set the Alpha value to something other than 255 (for example, set it to 32, which is almost transparent):

Figure 5.21 – Setting Rendering Mode of a material to Fade

2. Add a new public Boolean variable to our script (default to false):

public bool useMaterialAlpha = false; 

3. Add logic to the Start() method so that if this flag is true, we use the Alpha value of the color that was read from...