Time pauses

Is the only way to get a time pause by using a coroutine?
its pretty messy if you want to have a few time constraints like waiting for an enemy attack and slowing down the fire rate of a weapon. Is this the only way of doing it or is there a smarter way?

 

Time.time its a float with the number of seconds passed since the start. For example this script triggers YourShotMethod when mouse is pressed, but only one time each 0.5 seconds:

Code (CSharp):

1. Weapon : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     float _nextShot = 0;
4.     float _weaponRatio = 0.5f;
5.  
6.     void Update()
7.     {
8.         if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0) && _nextShot <= Time.time)
9.         {
10.             _nextShot = Time.time + _weaponRatio;
11.             YourShotMethod ();
12.         }
13.     }
14. }

 

You can use Invoke. It calls the specified method once after specified time.
Use InvokeRepeating if you want to call it again and again.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.   void Start()
3.    {
4.        Invoke("DelayThisMethodCall", 2.0f);
5.    }
6.  
7.     void DelayThisMethodCall()
8.    {
9.      Debug.Log ( "This method has been called after 2 seconds");
10.  
11.    }

 

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