How to make timer pause for 3 seconds,How to make timer stop for 3 seconds when colliding with object?

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1

So I want to make a timer powerup, I have the timer script already done but I don’t know to make it pause for 3 seconds when colliding with an object, then we that 3 seconds is up the timer obviously resumes.
Script works fine just want some code that can do what I explained. Would really appreciate it!

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class Timer : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_Text timerText;
    public float startTime;

    private void Start()
    {
        startTime = Time.time;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float t = Time.time - startTime;

        string minutes = ((int)t / 60).ToString();
        string seconds = (t % 60).ToString("f2");

        timerText.text = minutes + ":" + seconds;
    }
}
2

Here one solution, based on your code.

We keep track of a cooldown timer, which we can reset by calling AddCooldown() .

Then we only keep counting with the “main timer”, when there is currently no cooldown applied.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;

public class MyTimer : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Timer in m:s")]
    [Tooltip("Time elapsed since game start")]
    [SerializeField] private string timeElapsed;
    private float startTime;

    [Header("Cooldown in s")]
    [Tooltip("Time in seconds for which the timer stops counting")]
    [SerializeField] private float cooldown = 3f;
    private float cooldownTimer;


    private void Start()
    {
        startTime = Time.time;

        // Makes sure the cooldown does not stop the main timer right after start
        cooldownTimer = cooldown;   
    }


    void Update()
    {
        // For Testing. Press V to pause the Timer for 3 seconds
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.V))
        {
            AddColldown();
        }


        // Count time since AddCooldown() was triggered
        cooldownTimer += Time.deltaTime;    

        // Lets the main timer only count, if there is no cooldown running
        if (cooldownTimer >= cooldown)
        {
            float t = Time.time - startTime;

            string minutes = ((int)t / 60).ToString();
            string seconds = (t % 60).ToString("f2");

            timeElapsed = minutes + ":" + seconds;
        }
    }


    private void AddColldown()
    {
        cooldownTimer = 0f;
    }
}