Powerup for a certain amount of time

Unity Engine
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Hey, i’m trying to make a game in which you can use powerup’s, i managed to make them, which was pretty easy, but now I need to only make them last for example 5 seconds. Could anyone tell me how it would be possible to do that?

Thanks in advance !

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Hi @Nuubzz

Look into creating timers in Unity. There are many tutorials - just google it.

You could do something like this maybe:

void Update ()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P) && !powerupActive)
    {
        StartCoroutine(PowerUp(5f));
    }
}

IEnumerator PowerUp (float duration)
{
    Debug.Log("Power up started");
     
    powerupActive = true;
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(duration);
    powerupActive = false;

    Debug.Log("Power up ended");
}
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Oh thanks, i’ll look at that

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@Nuubzz - I added an example to my post.

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You don’t need to check every frame in the coroutine, you can just yield wait for the duration of the buff and then after that turn the bool off.

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Thanks, I did it you really helped ! :smile: