Coroutine Loops

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Coroutine Loops

Hi - I’m trying to understand coroutines (I come from Flash where you just run loops or use timers). I looked at this post:

but it doesn’t seem to address looping. Nor does the documentation for unity - coroutines simply run and then finish. If I try to make a repeat call to the function from within the function, I get an error. Furthermore, if I move certain lines of my code out of update and into the coroutine function, I get errors. All I want to do is have a launcher which fires a projectile at a random interval every 5-10 seconds. This is my code, and I want to replace the dependency on the fire button with an automatic loop.

    function Update()
{
	if( Input.GetButtonDown( "Fire1" ) ){
		var randomAngle:float = Random.Range(120, 180);
		var randomRot = Quaternion.Euler(0,Random.Range(-30, 30),-10);
		launcherRef.transform.rotation = initialRot * randomRot;
		
		var numRandom:float = (Random.value*objectSizeMax);
		//instantiate a projectile and throw it toward the cube (x axis)
		var instantiatedProjectile : Rigidbody = Instantiate( projectile, transform.position, transform.rotation ) ;
		instantiatedProjectile.transform.localScale = Vector3.one * (numRandom); //I add these two together here because I have no clue what I'm doing
		instantiatedProjectile.velocity = transform.TransformDirection( Vector3( speed, 0, 0) );
		for (var i=0; i<boundaryRef.length;i++){
			Physics.IgnoreCollision( instantiatedProjectile.collider, boundaryRef*.collider); //make sure to ignore collision between launcher and missile*

  •  }*
  • }*
    };
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If you have a constant interval, then I suggest using InvokeRepeating(), but for a variable time like this I would do something like this.

function Start () {
     //Initialize your variables.
    ProjectileLaunch();
}

function ProjectileLaunch () :IEnumerator {
    while (true) {
         //Launch Projectile
    
         yield WaitForSeconds (Random.Range( minTime , maxTime );
    }
}