yield works, but yield WaitForSeconds does not?

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1

I trigger the following UnityScript function once when my game pauses (timeScale zero).

function animatePie( pieStart : float, pieEnd : float ) {
	for (var f = pieStart; f >= pieEnd; f -= .0333) {
		upgradePie.GetComponent(UnityEngine.UI.Image).fillAmount = f;
		Debug.Log("TEST");
		yield WaitForSeconds(.0333);
	}
}

But for some reason it runs only once: “TEST” is only output a single time. It doesn’t seem to matter what value I put in WaitForSeconds, the loop never cycles.

However, if I take out the WaitForSeconds and use yield alone, all is well: “TEST” outputs multiple times (and the fillAmount animates nicely).

But yield alone doesn’t give me control over the speed of the animation, so it will vary per device. (Nor can I handle that with Time.deltaTime, since the game is paused.)

Why would yield fail to execute when I use WaitForSeconds?

Thanks for any help recognizing my mental block!

2

WaitForSeconds is scaled by Time.timeScale, so it won’t work if you set the timeScale to 0, which I assume is what you mean when you say “the game is paused”.