Waiting for a certain amount of time

Unity Engine
1

Hi! i am fairly new to this, in lua all I had to do to wait for a certain amount of time was type wait(), but I dont quite understand how to do this in unity. thanks for helping me out :stuck_out_tongue:

2

Here is what i have so far

var dropper : Transform;
function Update () {

var Cube : Transform;
Cube = Instantiate(dropper,
transform.position, transform.rotation);

}

But now i want it to wait a couple of seconds between spawning a cube.

3

yield WaitForSeonds ();

Also, be patient. Twelve minutes is not a long enough time to bump a post.

4

Wait for more than 12 minutes before bumping a topic, please. Anyway, you can use yield WaitForSeconds. The scripting docs have a search function; if you typed ā€œwaitā€, then youā€™d get WaitForSeconds as the third result.

Edit: er, beat to it. :wink:

ā€“Eric

5

Thanks for the help, and sorry for being impatient. Now how would I get the whole thing to repeat at the end? I tried searching repeat on the documentation but I found nothing.

6

while(true) { yield return WaitForSeconds(N); do something after N secondsā€¦ repeat }

7

Infinite loops are so useful yet so unforgiving. Iā€™ve had Unity crash multiple times because of them.

8

If you can wait until tomorrow, or you dont get any answers by then I can help

9

InvokeRepeating is what id go withā€¦ especially if thatā€™s all you have in your update function, but thatā€™s just me.

10

They are never a problem as long as you make sure that there is a yield.