Make enemy wait before attacking player

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so I have this script that detects when the zombie touches the player and damages the player, but there's one problem the zombie pretty much insta-kills the player I need a way to delay the damage by 1 second heres my script.

         if (Decol.IsTouching (playerCol)) {
             player.GetComponent<Player> ().curHealth -= 1;
 
         }

and yes, I have tried a coroutine

Answer 1

You can do something like this using Time.deltaTime and sustracting some value to _timerToAttack.

And when the variable get the value of 0, the enemy can attack and later _timerToAttack get the default value.

Remember, put the "_canAttack" variable in your enemy attack method

     private float _timerToAttack = 3f; //Random Timer.
     private float _time = 1f;

     private bool _canAttack = false;
     private bool _playerTouched = false;



     private private void Update()
     {
         TimerToAttack();
     }

     private void TimerToAttack()
     {
         if(_playerTouched )
         {
               if (_timerToAttack > 0)
               {
                 _canAttack = false;
                 _timerToAttack -= _time * Time.deltaTime;
               }
               else
               {
                  _canAttack = true;
                  _timerToAttack = 3f;
               }
          }
     }

Answer 2

Answer by Geriko · Jul 26, 2017 at 02:06 PM

make a Time variable WaitingTime or something, and a Time const WaitTimeUntilAttack

 if (Decol.IsTouching (playerCol)) {
          waitingTime-=Time.deltaTime;

          if(waitingTime<0){
          player.GetComponent<Player>().curHealth -= 1;
          waitingTime=WaitTimeUntilAttack;
          }
 }

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