[Solved] Hold button for 3 seconds ?

Scripting
1

Hi
If button pressed down for 3 seconds. do…what every. Here "quitTimer value not back to 0.

if(Input.GetButton("xbox a"))  {
           float quitTimer = Time.time;
            if (quitTimer>5) {
                Debug.Log ("you out !! ");
            }
            else {
                quitTimer = 0;
            }
}
2

Time.time continually counts up while the game is running so if you press the button at any point beyond 5 seconds after starting then you’ll hit that log. I’d use GetButtonDown to set quitTimer to 0 and then add Time.deltaTime each frame GetButton is true; then check if it’s greater than 5.

3

nope, something more like:

float timer;
float holdDur = 3f;

void Update()
{
    if(Input.GetButtonDown("xbox a"))
    {
        timer = Time.time;
    }
    else if(Input.GetButton("xbox a"))
    {
        if(Time.time - timer > holdDur)
        {
            //by making it positive inf, we won't subsequently run this code by accident,
            //since X - +inf = -inf, which is always less than holdDur
            timer = float.PositiveInfinity;
         
         
            //perform your action
        }
    }
    else
    {
        timer = float.PositiveInfinity;
    }
}
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4

The PositiveInfinity bit is probably unnecessary because you can’t have a button hold without a button down.

5

if it’s held for longer, you’ll repeatedly process “waited 3 seconds”. You need to flag that it’s been processed. Which I use the +inf to flag.

The +inf at line 25 isn’t super necessary though, I just put it in for safe keeping. I just don’t trust that API some times.

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6

Thank you so much. :slight_smile:
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7

Its late and already dead but thank you guys, This solved my problem for a racing game.

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8

Let me guess hold 2 just before light goes green otherwise a stall?