launch a function a little after the start function

Unity Engine
1

Good morning, everyone,

I am a beginner in video game creation.

When launching my game in a start function all my varables recover the data stored in variables of a different gameObject that is initialized during an Awake function.

But not everything has time to charge.

My question is simple, is there any way to launch a function a little after the start function ?

Which could look like this :

void Start ()
    {

        Wait(2 secondes);
        Go();
    }

void Go()
    {
        Debug.Log("Yes");
        
    }
2

You could use Invoke, or a coroutine.

Invoke:

void Start() {
Invoke("Go", 2f);
}

public void Go() {
Debug.Log("Yes");
}

Coroutine:

IEnumerator Start() {
yield return WaitForSeconds(2f);
Go();
}

Coroutine is probably the better choice, though I do recommend doing some further reading on coroutines before deploying them everywhere.

3

Note also that before Start() is invoked, the Awake() function is invoked.

4

Just want to mention, when using Invoke(), instead of passing the method name as a string, you can use the C# nameof operator to pass in the method name instead. This way, if you change the method name, it will reflect here as well:

void Start() {
   Invoke(nameof(Foo), 2f);
}

void Foo() {

}
5

If you don’t want to mess with a coroutine or invoke just yet, you can do it the messy way in Update

float startTime;
bool doneMyThing = false;

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

void Update()
{
    if ((doneMyThing == false) && (Time.time >= startTime + 2f))
    {
        Go();
        doneMyThing = true;
    }
}

It is certainly not as clean looking, but beginners sometimes find things like coroutines intimidating.