Make a wait function

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1

Hello,
so I am trying to automate my system a little bit, basically I am trying to make it so I declare everything that I want to happen line after line, and then my code saves all this into a List and runs them one after the other. Now that’s good and all, but I have a small problem, when I want the game to just wait a certain amount of time (because I want cinematics to play while this wait function plays or something else).

So I am using coroutines of course, and after running my wait function, nothing happens, it doesn’t run the next line, so please help?

Thanks!

here is my code:

public bool isDone = true;

    List<string> methodList = new List<string>();

    void Start ()
    {
        AddNext("test", new string[] { "hey" });
        AddNext("wait", new string[] { "10" });
        AddNext("test", new string[] {"hey"});
    }

    void AddNext (string method, string[] args)
    {
        string temp = method + "_" + string.Join("_", args); ;
        methodList.Add(temp);
        StartCoroutine(AddNextNow());
    }

    IEnumerator AddNextNow()
    {
        string methodNow = methodList[0];

        if (isDone)
        {
            isDone = false;
            string[] all = methodList[0].Split('_');

            if (all[0] == "test")
            {
                Test(all[1]);
            }
            else if (all[0] == "wait")
            {
                yield return StartCoroutine_Auto(Wait(float.Parse(all[1])));
            }

            methodList.Remove(methodList[0]);
            isDone = true;
            if (methodList[0] != null) {
                StartCoroutine(AddNextNow());
            }
        }
    }

    void Test (string input)
    {
        Debug.Log("Test! " + input);
    }

    IEnumerator Wait (float delay)
    {
        Debug.Log("Waiting...");
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        Debug.Log(methodList[0]);
    }
2

Why wouldn’t you just use

yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);

Instead of an entire function for this?

As far as I know a coroutine doesn’t wait before it’s finished, so it won’t hold back other code.

Edit: Perhaps it’s worthwhile to read this: question about Coroutines and waiting for a function to finish - Unity Answers