Increase/Decrease Over Time, Not Frames

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1

Hello,

Just to clear things up, I want to know an easy way to increase, or decrease a value over time (seconds) as apposed to the frame.

So normally, if I wanted to increase a value, I would just do value++ in the update, which increases the value every frame. What about every second? Is there an easy way to do that within an update?

Thanks

2

There is a simple value that translates between seconds and frames. If you want to increment a floating-point number evenly over time, you can use

number += Time.deltaTime;

Over one second it will increase by one.

However, if you want to increment an int exactly once a second, you can use a coroutine:

int incrementThis = 0;

IEnumerator NumberIncrementer(ref int number)
{
    while(true)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
        number++;
    }
}

void Start()
{
    StartCoroutine(NumberIncrementer(ref incrementThis));
}

void Update()
{
    Debug.Log(incrementThis);
}

This way it will increment the number exactly once a frame.