How to wait a certain amount of seconds in C#

@Digestivbiscuitsm

Problem:

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

  void Start () {
 
      Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();
 
      //Start of text change
      textLoad.text = "";
      System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000); //Attempt of a wait script
      textLoad.text = "Loading";
 
  }

}

Solution 1: public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

    void Start()
   {
       StartCoroutine(ChangeText(30f));
   }

   IEnumerator ChangeText(int halt)
  {
        Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();

         //Start of text change
        textLoad.text = "";
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(halt);
        textLoad.text = "Loading";
  }

} Solution 2:

public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {

  void Start ()
 {
 
       Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();
 
        //Start of text change
        textLoad.text = "";
        Invoke("ChangeText", 30f);
  }

 void ChangeText()
 {
       textLoad.text = "Loading";
 }

}

Maybe something like this? Not great but you get the idea

 public class textBootUp : MonoBehaviour {
  
      void Start () {
  
         Text textLoad = GetComponent<Text>();
  
         //Start of text change
         textLoad.text = "";
         letsGo = false;
         CoRunning = false;
         //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000); //Attempt of a wait script
         //textLoad.text = "Loading";
  
      }
  }
 
 void Update(){
     if(!letsGo){
         TextLoad.text = "Loading";
         if(!CoRunning){
             StartCoroutine(waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter);
         }
         return;
     }
     //below here will start after Coroutine
 
 }
 
  IEnumerator waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter(){
     CoRunning = true;
      //Do some stuff here while we wait
     yield return new waitforseconds(3f);
     //my code here after 3 seconds
     textLoad.text = "";
     letsGo = true;
     CoRunning = false;
  }
 
 
 

What I almost always do is to store the time in variable and then substract Time.deltaTime from it in the Update loop

 public float time;
 private float timeStore;
 
 void Start(){
     timeStore = time;
 }
 
 void Update(){
     if (time > 0) {
         time -= Time.deltaTime;
     } else {
         //Do Stuff    
         time = timeStore;        
     }
 }

To wait seconds in c# i have two ideas:

• Time.deltatime in a loop (however i think this would not work in your case, and tend to freeze unity)

• IEnumerator yield return new waitforseconds(3f);

Example:

 IEnumerator waiter_not_that_waiter_just_waiter(){
      yield return new waitforseconds(3f);
      //my code here after 3 seconds
 }