#How to wait

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foggy arch
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@gentle veldt

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What dont you understand about it specifically

gentle veldt
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everything

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im gonna learn how to do unity in general, get some knowledge of it, then go back to the issue

foggy arch
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  1. You make a coroutine (code that runs alongside other code)

  2. You start that coroutine

  3. You wait in that coroutine, then you do what you want

gentle veldt
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well i know how to do it

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i just dont know how to implament it

foggy arch
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uhh

gentle veldt
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in my scenario

foggy arch
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yield return new WaitForSeconds()
stuff you want to do?

gentle veldt
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look at the movement code in my scratch game, thats what i want to make

foggy arch
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you're lucky I've used scratch and know the language

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tell any other programmer that and they'll tell you to fuck off lmao

gentle veldt
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lol

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so any ideas on what to do in that case?

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i have the movement script all done, just need to add the wait

foggy arch
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which part of the "movement" script do you want

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oh

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oh man there's a lot of problems with this but ill let it go since you're porting it from scratch

gentle veldt
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i made it myself and it was the worst script ever

foggy arch
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ok i'm assuming your WaitBeforeMove() coroutine is just a yield return new WaitForSeconds

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which is a common mistake

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the way you have it now, its useless

gentle veldt
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so ivee been told

foggy arch
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when you start a coroutine, its entirely seperate from the rest of that code in the method

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you're literally just starting a timer and it doesnt do anything when its done

gentle veldt
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i want to do
random code
wait 5 seconds
random code

foggy arch
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so what you should do is

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StartCoroutine(WaitStage());


IEnumerator WaitStage()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
    if (Random.Range(1, 20) < level)
    {
        if (area == "stage")
        {
            moved = true;
            timeset = 5;
            area = "diningroom";
        }
        else
        {
            timeset = 0.1f;
        }
    }
}
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actually

gentle veldt
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so id have to make a new one every time?

foggy arch
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just one big coroutine

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with all of the code

gentle veldt
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ok then how do i run it in a forever loop

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so to speak

foggy arch
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put StartCoroutine() at the bottom

gentle veldt
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which does what

foggy arch
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StartCoroutine

gentle veldt
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so id put that in the update method?

foggy arch
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NO

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Nononon

gentle veldt
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ok i was hoping not

foggy arch
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NEVER start a coroutine in Update

gentle veldt
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ok

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so where would i put it

foggy arch
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unless ig you know its only going to start once

foggy arch
gentle veldt
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so id make my big ienumerate and then at the end put StartCoroutine()?

foggy arch
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yea

gentle veldt
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alr

foggy arch
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IEnumerator is a coroutine, if you havent figured that out

gentle veldt
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so i put my big block of code in the ienumerate and then at the end before my } i put a StartCoroutine()

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is that correct?

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if so, alr, if not, explain
im headin to bed

foggy arch
gentle veldt
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alr

gentle veldt
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now how do i implament it so it triggers once per game and forever loop

foggy arch
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as in once per start of a session or once per start of the main game loop

gentle veldt
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uh whats the difference

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like once per night attempt vs once per game?

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@foggy arch

foggy arch
gentle veldt
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ah

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ok

foggy arch
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if you want it to start when the script is loaded use Awake()