Coroutine not waiting for yield WaitForSeconds [JS]

Questions & Answers
1

I have been working on a Sanity level of a player and I’ve been using Coroutines to drain 5 sanity every second and that Coroutine I am using is just ignoring WaitForSeconds. I need help.

function SanityDraining(){
  
 if(lanternLight.enabled == false){
  
  StartCoroutine(sanityDrain(1.0));

 }else{
 
   StopCoroutine(sanityDrain(1.0));

  }
 
}

function sanityDrain(waitTime : float){
   playerSanity = playerSanity - sanityLoss;
   yield WaitForSeconds(waitTime);
}

I have called the Sanity Draining function in Update function and its working, everything is working but its just ignoring yield. I have a script that I’ve done with players light, also using coroutines and it works perfectly. I dont know what seems to be the problem here.

2

Are you expecting the Coroutine to continue draining the sanity over time? That’s what would happen if you’re calling that in update. But as a Coroutine it’s only going to subtract sanityLoss one time, wait for 1 second, then quit. If you want it to continue draining over time then the Coroutine needs to be a loop…

function sanityDrain(waitTime : float)
{
  while (playerSanity > 0)
  {
    playerSanity -= sanityLoss;
    yield WaitForSeconds(waitTime);
  }
}

This will loop while sanity is greater than 0, waiting for waitTime seconds for each iteration.