How do you remove an object after a set amount of seconds

Unity Engine
1

I have 3D text in my scene and I want it to get destroyed or deactivated after 5 seconds from when the game starts.
How would I do this? (If you reply with code, please state if it is javascript or C#)

Thanks in advance

2

Using coroutines is one possibility.

If you’re using C# for your game manager script, you could declare a public GameObject property that you would link the Text Mesh via Inspector.

    public GameObject gameObject;

Your game manager’s Start method would like

void Start () {
        StartCoroutine(DeleteObject(gameObject, 5.0f));
    }

which would call the following co-routine:

IEnumerator DeleteObject (GameObject obj, float t)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (t);
        Destroy (obj);
    }