Pause WaitForSecond

Hello,

I'm creating a shooting game. The player can hold down a button and it will automatically shoot so I had to put a delay between each shot. First, for information: For pausing I don't change Time.timeScale. What I do is disabling rigidbodies, particles and stuff like that and then I use something like if (paused) in my update functions. For delay between each shot, I use yield WaitForSeconds but the problem is that whenever the player shoots, he/she can pause the game and wait for the yield to finish then he/she can resume the game. How do I pause a WaitForSeconds?

 

you could do a system like this

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. var coolDown : float = 1.0;
3. var nextShot : float = 0.0;
4.  
5. if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")   nextShot <= 0){
6. nextShot = coolDown ;
7. //Handle the projectile behavior
8. nextShot -= Time.time; //or you can use Time.deltaTime here its up to you
9. }
10.  
11.  

This should work.

 

Its my understanding that once you pass the wait for seconds back to Unity you have lost all control. The simplest alternative is to avoid using WaitForSeconds(), and instead maintain your own timer which is only adjusted when not paused.

Another simple option might be to skip/cancel "pending" shots if the game has been paused.

 

use this..

Code (csharp):

1. yield WaitForSeconds(delaytime);

 

Please at least read the original post.

 

The best option what i think might be disabling the pause option during the shots....

 

@Johnny Sorry for that post... I have not completed the post and submitted in the middle..

 

@lakshmi.nani: Disabling the pause option during the shots might be a good idea, but think about it. What if you have a power attack that takes like 3 mins to recharge? Or maybe a mission that you can fail if you don't finish it before time

Creating a timer like what kingcharizard and JohnnyA said is a good idea. I could use like an AddTimer() function and store them in an array, then loop thru that array and call the Step() function for each of them every frame

That fixes my problem, thanks everyone!