Using Time.time in an if statement?

Scripting
1

I’m trying to use the following code to wait for two and a half seconds before playing an audio clip attached to the same GameObject:

function Update() {
	var PlayTime = 2.5;
	if (Time.time = PlayTime) {
		audio.Play();
	}
}

I get the following error:
(3, 23) BCE0044 expecting ) found ‘=’
Fixing this error (changing it to (Time.time) = PlayTime )causes another error:
(3, 24) BCE0043 unexpected token =

Any idea what is wrong? I know I saw Time.time used in a similar way in a scripting reference example.

2 
if (Time.time = PlayTime) {

should be if (Time.time == PlayTime) {

3

That won’t work anyway, since Time.time will almost certainly never equal exactly 2.5. Don’t use Update at all, use yield WaitForSeconds in Start.

–Eric

4

I’d suggest the coroutine route as well, however if you don’t feel confident enough to travel down that path yet, you should alter your if test to:

if (Time.time >= PlayTime) 
{ 
   audio.Play(); 
}

You need to be careful though as this will continue to call the play function after this, so using a coroutine with WaitForSeconds will probably be the safer route to go.