Can't make coroutine work

Questions & Answers
1

so my script works fine without the coroutine:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class jointbreak : MonoBehaviour 
{

	private ParticleRenderer myParticleRender;
	private ParticleEmitter myParticleEmitter;

	void Start ()
	{
		myParticleRender = GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>();
		myParticleEmitter = GetComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
	}

	Void OnJointBreak(float breakForce)
	{
		myParticleRender.enabled = true;
		myParticleEmitter.enabled = true;
	}
}

But unfortunately I need a delay after enabling to disable the particles again, and this is my script now:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class jointbreak : MonoBehaviour 
{

	private ParticleRenderer myParticleRender;
	private ParticleEmitter myParticleEmitter;

	void Start ()
	{
		StartCoroutine(OnJointBreak(float breakForce));
		myParticleRender = GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>();
		myParticleEmitter = GetComponent<ParticleEmitter>();
	}

	IEnumerator OnJointBreak(float breakForce)
	{
		myParticleRender.enabled = true;
		myParticleEmitter.enabled = true;
		yield return new WaitForSeconds(10.0f);
		myParticleRender.enabled = false;
		myParticleEmitter.enabled = false;
	}
}

It looks like there is some issue in …(OnJointBreak(float breakForce));… right after float XD any idea?

2

You are starting the coroutine before you are initializing ‘myParticleRenderer’ and ‘myParticleEmitter’. Take line 12, and move it down below line 14 and your code should work.

3

Instead of:

 StartCoroutine(OnJointBreak(float breakForce));

Use:

 float breakForce = 5.0f;
 StartCoroutine(OnJointBreak(breakForce));

With whatever value of breakForce is appropriate.

The issue is that instead of passing a value to the OnJointBreak function you are declaring a new variable.