Start The Timer 3 Seconds After The Game Begin

Unity Engine
1

I’m trying to set a timer to my game for 3 hours now i want the timer to wait for 3 seconds why this is not working im new in c# and unity

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine;

public class Timer : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text timerText;
    private float startTime;
    private bool aka = true;

    void Start()
    {
        aka = false;
        startTime = Time.time;
    }
    IEnumerator SpawnWaves()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
        while(true)
        aka = true;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        {
            if (aka = true)
            {
         
                float t = Time.time - startTime;
                string minutes = ((int)t / 60).ToString();
                string seconds = (t % 60).ToString("f2");
                timerText.text = minutes + ":" + seconds;
            }
        }
    }
}

am I doomed to fail?

2

Line 20 and 21 are going to lock up Unity solidly. You can’t have busy loops in Unity but you can yield return null inside a loop if you want.

Line 27 assigns true to variable aka. Single equal is assignment, double equal is comparison.

Generally if you want to do something later, you will make a coroutine, yield for the three seconds, then after that yield, do the thing you want.

Something else, usually in your Start() function, you would StartCoroutine() that coroutine to get it going.

3

Im not sure that i understand what do you mean sir i fixed the double “==” and i add the StartCoroutine() but still it doesnt work .i cant find any solution anywhere i’m lost!