Waitforseconds not wating

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1

I am currently having issues with the WaitForSeconds Cooroutine. I asked it wait for 5 seconds, and the game seems to be blitzing though the game waiting for about 1 second. Essentially I am making a turn based rpg combat system (no animation) that shows a GUITexture object for a number of seconds. However the guiTexture seems to be and only appear for 1 second even though I am programming it to wait for 5. Can anyone help? I have attached the code below and I have tried using these both in FixedUpdate and Update. I also have an OnGUI method running if that effects anything?

Thanks
coxlin

IEnumerator PlayerAbilityUse(BattleAbility ability)
{
    AbilityPlane.active = true;
    AbilityPlane.texture = ability.AbilityTex;
    audio.PlayOneShot(ability.AbilitySound);
    if (ability.AbilityElement == BattleAbility.Element.Heal)
    {
        Player.Health += Player.BaseAttack + ability.AbilityUse;
    }
    else
    {
        Enemy.Health -= Player.BaseAttack + ability.AbilityUse;
    }

    Player.Stamina -= ability.StaminaUse;
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
}

IEnumerator EnemyAbilityUse(BattleAbility ability)
{
    AbilityPlane.active = true;
    AbilityPlane.texture = ability.AbilityTex;
    audio.PlayOneShot(ability.AbilitySound);
    if (ability.AbilityElement == BattleAbility.Element.Heal)
    {
        Enemy.Health += Enemy.BaseAttack + ability.AbilityUse;
    }
    else
    {
        Player.Health -= Enemy.BaseAttack + ability.AbilityUse;
    }
    Enemy.Stamina -= ability.StaminaUse;
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
}
2

Your problem is that you aren’t doing anything after WaitForSeconds to see the effect. Currently your coroutines aren’t taking advantage of the IEnumerator interface, and actually are just performing the way a normal function would, but then waiting 5 seconds before returning out and closing the coroutine.

If you put a print statement after the WaitForSeconds, you will see that it won’t print to your console until 5 seconds later.

Hope that helps.

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