Time delay

Unity Engine
1

I want a time delay that after X seconds after the object is created changed its Bool spawnProt to false

    public bool spawnProt = true;

    void Start () {
        // I want a X seconds delay
                 // after the X seconds have passed {
             spawnProt = false;
       }
2 
float xSeconds = 2f;

void Start()
{
  Invoke("MyMethod", xSeconds);
}

void MyMethod()
{
  spawnProt = false;
}
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3

Welcome to the forums! Please use code tags. It helps us not go insane. :slight_smile:

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4

Thanks!

I will.

edit: I edited and used code tags on all my old forum posts.

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5

Can I use it like this to create a infinte loop?

6

No, then you use InvokeRepeating:

void Start()
{
  InvokeRepeating("MyMethod", timeTillFirstFire, loopTime);
}
7

Itll work both ways

8

Even cleaner, you can use Start() as a coroutine, like so:

IEnumerator Start()
{
 float interval = 2.0f;
 while(true)
 {
  yield return new WaitForSeconds( interval);
  MyMethod();
 }
}

I prefer the latter because it feels more natural in terms of setting breakpoints when something goes wrong.

9

That works too… but one perk with invoke over start is the ability to stop if you want to via cancelinvoke… while(true) in start is hard to change.

10

True. I just associate the lifetime of such a script as being equivalent to the lifetime of the GameObject they hang on. The pattern I often use in the above is to make a new GO with the spawner script, and then when some other condition is reached, like end of level, or destruction of bonepile, destroy the GO and/or the script itself. But yeah, whatever you’re mostest comfortablest with. :slight_smile:

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