How to make a label appear for a set amount of time

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I have a projectile, and I want to label its position at various points, but I only want that lable to last for a couple of seconds and then go up in a poof of smoke.

I tried a while loop with Time.time <= startTime + 2, but this just caused Unity to freeze.

Mike mentioned a co-function, but I'm not sure how to go about that.

Thx

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Answer by Mike 3 · Jun 24, 2010 at 12:54 PM

I'll just copy paste my other answer which should work:

change this

if (GUI.Button (Rect (20,40,80,20), "Level 1"))
{
    print( "you hit LoadLevel (1), but this does nothing yet");
    test = true;
    timeWhenPushed = Time.time;
    print ("You pushed the button at " + timeWhenPushed);
    while (Time.time <= timeWhenPushed +1)
    {
        GUI.Label(Rect (120, 40, 200, 40), "You hit level 1");
    }
}

to this:

if (GUI.Button (Rect (20,40,80,20), "Level 1"))
{
    print( "you hit LoadLevel (1), but this does nothing yet");
    test = true;
    timeWhenPushed = Time.time;
    print ("You pushed the button at " + timeWhenPushed);
}
if (Time.time <= timeWhenPushed +1)
{
    GUI.Label(Rect (120, 40, 200, 40), "You hit level 1");
}

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Jeff Ciaccio · Jun 24, 2010 at 01:07 PM 0

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Sorry $$anonymous$$ike, I must have missed (or forgotten) this. So it looks like all you changed was the while to an if. Why won't the while work? (Please forgive my ignoragnce) Thanks!

Jeff Ciaccio · Jun 24, 2010 at 01:11 PM 0

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Looks like you did answer this :) Once it scrolled off the screen, I thought it was gone (or would just go unanswered).

If I put a comment in an old question, will it pop back up to the top of the questions again??

Mike 3 · Jun 24, 2010 at 01:29 PM 0

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No, but it pops up in the message section for me

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