Delay Gameplay While Displaying 3,2,1 go!!!

Questions & Answers
1

Hello,
i was making a car game,When the game start’s am showing 3,2,1 go!!! through Gui Text with this script

function Start ()
{
 guiText.text = "3";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);
 
 guiText.text = "2";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);
 
 guiText.text = "1";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);
 
 guiText.text = "Go";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);
 
 guiText.text = "";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);
}

i was trying to Stop Game Play When displaying Text, Tried with Time.timeScale but it Stopping Whole Game , i mean Even Gui Text , is there Any Way To Show Stop Gameplay While Displaying 3,2,1 go!!!???

thank you

3

just use a boolean to regulate everything.

static var startGame = false;

function Start ()
{
 guiText.text = "3";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);

 guiText.text = "2";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);

 guiText.text = "1";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);

 guiText.text = "Go";
 yield WaitForSeconds (1.0);

 guiText.text = "";
startGame = true;
}

then in the car script:

function Update(){
if(GUIscriptName.startGame){

//code in here won't be run until GO

}
}

OR

you could use Time.realtimeSinceStartup to check the actual time (with Time.time set to 0):

  function Start ()
    {
     guiText.text = "3";
    while(Time.realtimeSinceStartup < 1)
    yield;

etc…

2

There’s no simple answer for this - it’s a question of your game’s architecture.

If your gameplay is currently triggered to start from the “Start” function, you’ll have to instead create a new function called “StartRace” or something, and call that function on all the appropriate objects once the countdown is finished.

4

you could do a seperate scene with the 3 2 1 countdown before the main game