Small Timer in C#?

[Rydrako]

Because I don’t do c# much but anyways I’m trying to do this thing where it will destroy after 2 seconds when it adds time.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class BossAnimation : MonoBehaviour {

// Use this for initialization
public bool animate = false;
public GameObject boss;
public Camera cam;
public GameObject bubbles;
public double NumberOfSecondsToWait;
private bool IsTiming = false;
private double timer;

void Update () 
{
		if(animate)
		{
				iTween.MoveTo(gameObject, iTween.Hash("path", iTweenPath.GetPath("Boss Path"), "orienttopath", true, "time", 120));
				animate = false;
		}
	
		if(transform.position.z < -40)
		{
				boss.transform.position = new Vector3(-95,-18,-40);
				Destroy(bubbles.gameObject);
				cam.camera.enabled = true;
				beginTimer ();
		}
	
		if(IsTiming)
		{
				timer += Time.deltaTime;
		}
	
		if (timer > NumberOfSecondsToWait) //This wont call...
		{
				cam.camera.enabled = false;
				Destroy (gameObject);
				print ("Time has passed!");
		}
}

void beginTimer()
{
	timer = 0;
	IsTiming = true;
}

}

It all works until I check for the time. I’m sure the answer is pretty simple but I’m not good with c# logic but I have to make this work in c# so my iTween path works. Help would be great!

[sparkzbarca]

time.time is the amount of time in seconds since the game started. Nothing could ever be less than that or at least not

time.time + 2.0 could ever be.

If you want to make a simple timer you need to use time.deltatime

deltatime is the time in seconds between frames (a very small number)

so

void beginTimer()
{
timer = 0;
IsTiming = true;
}

void update(){
if(isTiming)
{
//+= is the same thing as adding to the current variable
//timer = timer + time.delatime is the same thing as time +=... its just faster to use +=

timer += time.deltatime;

}

if (timer > NumberOfSecondsToWait)
{
//do something, like destroy;
}

}

void EndTimer(){
IsTiming = false;
}

thats just for general knowledge

you can already destroy soemthing in a few seconds time

Destroy(gameobject, time in seconds to delay destruction)

so

Destroy(gameobject,5f)

would destroy the game object in 5 seconds.

Still useful to know how to make a timer though.

mark as answered please

[codecranker]

I see that your class extends from MonoBehavior, in that case you can also use Invoke() and InvokeRepeating(). You can always check their documentation on unity script reference.