How to wait a certain amount of seconds in C#

Questions & Answers
1

I have looked everywhere for an answer and but they never seem to work… I have tried using this:
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

	void Start () {

        Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();

        //Start of text change
        textLoad.text = "";
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000); //Attempt of a wait script
        textLoad.text = "Loading";

    }
}

The problem is when I launch the game in the editor, it takes 3 more seconds to load than normal and then when it has finished loading, it automatically changes the text to ‘Loading’.
Can anyone help?

2

To wait seconds in c# i have two ideas:

  • Time.deltatime in a loop (however i
    think this would not work in your
    case, and tend to freeze unity)

  • IEnumerator yield return new waitforseconds(3f);

Example:

IEnumerator waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter(){
     yield return new waitforseconds(3f);
     //my code here after 3 seconds
}
3

What I almost always do is to store the time in variable and then substract Time.deltaTime from it in the Update loop

public float time;
private float timeStore;

void Start(){
	timeStore = time;
}

void Update(){
	if (time > 0) {
		time -= Time.deltaTime;
	} else {
		//Do Stuff	
		time = timeStore;		
	}
}
4

Maybe something like this? Not great but you get the idea

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {
 
     void Start () {
 
        Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();
 
        //Start of text change
        textLoad.text = "";
	    letsGo = false;
	    CoRunning = false;
        //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000); //Attempt of a wait script
        //textLoad.text = "Loading";
 
     }
 }

void Update(){
	if(!letsGo){
		TextLoad.text = "Loading";
		if(!CoRunning){
			StartCoroutine(waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter);
		}
		return;
	}
	//below here will start after Coroutine

}

 IEnumerator waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter(){
	CoRunning = true;
 	//Do some stuff here while we wait
	yield return new waitforseconds(3f);
	//my code here after 3 seconds
	textLoad.text = "";
	letsGo = true;
	CoRunning = false;
 }
5

@Digestivbiscuitsm

Problem:

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

 void Start () {

     Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();

     //Start of text change
     textLoad.text = "";
     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000); //Attempt of a wait script
     textLoad.text = "Loading";

 }

}

Solution 1:
public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

   void Start()
  {
      StartCoroutine(ChangeText(30f));
  }

  IEnumerator ChangeText(int halt)
 {
       Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();

        //Start of text change
       textLoad.text = "";
       yield return new WaitForSeconds(halt);
       textLoad.text = "Loading";
 }

}
Solution 2:

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

 void Start ()
{

      Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();

       //Start of text change
       textLoad.text = "";
       Invoke("ChangeText", 30f);
 }

void ChangeText()
{
      textLoad.text = "Loading";
}

}