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Is it possible to call a method once per frame inside of another method?
I'm working with live video processing.
My problem is that I want to call a method and inside this method I want to have a loop that runs every frame just like Update() but after a defined time I want to break the loop and return something.
I know that there is a while loop but as far as I know, this loop does everything in just one frame and that's not quite what I'm searching for.
Does anybody have a solution? I added a small example (not real code) to clarify what I mean.
public void DetectFace()
{
int detectedFaces = 0;
Vector2 nosePos;
//loop that calls once a frame, I used while for demonstration
while (detectedFaces < 10)
if (FindFace())
{
detectedFaces++;
nosePos = GetNosePos();
}
else
{
detectedFaces = 0;
}
return nosePos;
}
You can use Invoke() to invoke a method after a cerain time that you specify.
hmm in unity there is a method like: WebCamTexture.didUpdateThisFrame and I have to be able to check if the webcam got updated. Would you suggets Invoke() like every 0.05 seconds and check if its a new frame?
might be taxing on the hardware but sure try it and see if it suits your needs. although I haven't personally had to use something like`WebCamTexture.didUpdateThisFrame` before, so i don't know what impact on performance it does.
It was pretty laggy but I could solve it by using coroutines. Thanks for the help :)
Why not just use a public bool to disable it? it could be inside a for loop in Update or maybe a coroutine with a while loop using that bool as condition.
