My blinking script is not working

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Hello!

I would like an object to blink for 3 seconds. I have wrote the following code, but Unity is not entering to function blinking(). What do I do wrong?

var blinkTime : int = 3; //How long the sphere will blink

function Start() { InvokeRepeating("blinking", 1, 1); }

function blinking() { print(blinkTime); blinkTime--; print(blinkTime); if (blinkTime == 0) { Object.Destroy(Object.name); } else { yield WaitForSeconds(0.5); renderer.enabled = false; yield WaitForSeconds(0.5); renderer.enabled = true; } }

Thanks!

Answer 1

The only thing i can see is this line:

Object.Destroy(Object.name);

It's almost completely wrong ;)

There is not version of Destroy that takes a string as parameter. You have to pass an object here.
Object is a class, not a reference to a particular object so you can't use "name" of the class.
Just a side note: You don't have to write Object before Destroy. Only in classes that do not inherit from UnityEngine.Object. Anyways, it's not wrong so you can do this if it helps your understanding of your code.

If you want to remove this script from the gameobject use:

Destroy(this);

If you want to destroy the whole GameObject use:

Destroy(gameObject);

edit
The reason why this doesn't work is that you can't use coroutines with Invoke or InvokeRepeating. You can use a single coroutine to achieve your desired behaviour.

var blinkTime : int = 3; //How long the sphere will blink

function Start() 
{
    yield WaitForSeconds(1); // The initial delay that you passed to InvokeRepeating
    while (blinkTime > 0)
    {
        blinkTime--;
        yield WaitForSeconds(0.5);
        renderer.enabled = false;
        yield WaitForSeconds(0.5);
        renderer.enabled = true;
    }
    yield WaitForSeconds(1); // wait another sec.
    Destroy(gameObject);
}

My blinking script is not working

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