How to move GameObject after 1 second c#

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1

Hi guys, I actually have this situation where there is a cube, when I place it a structure comes up from the ground using Vector3.Lerp and stops. I want to make the structure to start after 1 second, but I’m having problems since with this script it only moves 1 frame (i think it’s because ienumerator dosn’t update or stuff. I read on other answers that I should use a while loop but while trying I freezed Unity once and if I add break; to avoid freezes the gameobject only moves by 1 frame. Any ideas? Here’s the script in c# (thank you in advance guys!):

using System.Collections;

public class WinScript : MonoBehaviour {

	public GameObject wall;
	private Vector3 startPos;
	private Vector3 endPos;
	private float distance = 16.82f;

	private float lerpTime = 6;
	private float currentLerpTime = 0;

	private bool triggerEnter = false;
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {

		startPos = wall.transform.position;
		endPos = wall.transform.position + Vector3.up * distance;
	}

	void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
	{
		if (other.transform.tag == "Cube") 
		{
			triggerEnter = true;
			StartCoroutine ("Portal");
		} 


	}

	// Update is called once per frame
	IEnumerator Portal () {
		
		if (triggerEnter == true) {

			currentLerpTime += Time.deltaTime;

			if (currentLerpTime >= lerpTime) 
			{
				currentLerpTime = lerpTime;
			}

			float Perc = currentLerpTime / lerpTime;

			yield return new WaitForSeconds (1);
			while (true) {
				wall.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (startPos, endPos, Perc);
				break;
			}
		}
	
	}

}
2

When you want to make coroutine work like Update() all you need is to just add a

yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();

and there is no need for break then (although is should break at some point. Try this:

 while (Perc <= 1) {
    wall.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (startPos, endPos, Perc);
    yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
}

PS: C# convention is to name variables startiing from small letter, so you should name Perc variable perc.

3

I think the Coroutine should look like this:

if (triggerEnter == true)
 {
   yield return new WaitForSeconds (1);
   
   float elapsed = 0.0f;

   while ( elapsed < lerpTime ) {
     wall.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (startPos, endPos, elapsed / lerpTime);
     yield return null;
   }
   wall.transform.position = endPos;
 }

Untested, but you should get the idea.