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Astinog
Astinog

Reputation: 1181

No effects with WaitForSeconds

I want my character to stop when I press a button on my gamepad or keyboard. The character must do a specific animation when I press the button and nothing else, so no movement at all, just the animation. I'm trying to figure out how WaitForSeconds works, but when I try to use it, it doesn't work. Here the code of the function that calls WaitForSeconds

public IEnumerator Wait()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds (6);
}

When the bool variable animationTest is true I want the program to wait for 6 seconds

if (animationTest) 
{
    UnityEngine.Debug.Log ("check1");
    StartCoroutine (Wait ());
    UnityEngine.Debug.Log ("check2");
    animationTest = false;
}

but this doesn't work! check1 and check2 are printed at the same time. I'm missing something. This runs in FixedUpdate().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 589

Answers (1)

Tharabas
Tharabas

Reputation: 3422

The Coroutine does not work like this. It starts a new (parallel) execution. In order to achieve the wait you'd have to do it in the IEnumerator.

public IEnumerator SomethingElse() {
  animationTest = false;
  Debug.Log("check1");
  yield return new WaidForSeconds(6f);
  Debug.Log("check2");
  yield return true;
}

void FixedUpdate() {
  if (animationTest) {
    StartCoroutine(SomethingElse());
  }
}

Now when you set the animationTest at some point, you should see the two logs with a time gap of 6 seconds in between.

Upvotes: 2

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