using a universal wait value in unity

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i would like to know how to add wait time in a function without having to freeze the entire script, is there a surefire method for this, also, would it work in an “if loop” ?

also i would love to know here some of you other people learned unity because youtube is kind of leading me in all different dirrections

2

also, on a side note, can you make holes in shapes with negative space in unity, or do i have to create a custom shape in blender with a hole in it?

3

Look up Coroutines.

Yes but boolean mesh operations are an advanced things to be working with. If you don’t need it in runtime, make it in Blender.

4

i found that this works better from one of my old scripts, but thanks for the help
Invoke(“p”,num);
//p is a function, num is a float

5

You should still learn Coroutines.

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[...]

StartCoroutine(MyDelayedFunc(1f));

[...]

private IEnumerator MyDelayedFunc(float timeToWait)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToWait);
   
    // Your code here.
   
    [...]
}

Alternatively, if you’d rather use callback:

private static void Wait(float timeToWait, System.Action callback)
{
    StartCoroutine(WaitCoroutine(timeToWait, callback));
   
}

private static IEnumerator WaitCoroutine(float timeToWait, System.Action callback)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToWait);
   
    callback.Invoke();
}

Then you could just do:

Wait(1f, () =>
{
    // Your code here.
   
    [...]
});