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Question by MaxedCarp · Aug 01, 2021 at 12:25 PM · c#movement script timescale camera movement pause menu

How to switch between Time.unscaledDeltaTime and Time.deltatime after Time.timeScale?

This is my first time working with unity and coding an actual game so a lot of things are new to me. I am trying to make a "time control" ability that makes use of time scale so I used Time.unscaledDeltaTime to make the character move when time is slowed. No issues there. However when I pause the game I want to make the character and camera to stop moving. Every attempt I had at doing it failed. I tried making a code that checks if the game is paused and then multiply the speed by 0 or switch between Time.unscaledDeltaTime and Time.DeltaTime whenever the game is paused however nothing worked.

Codes:

Game Pausing: https://pastebin.com/vBxtL3Ff

Player Movement: https://pastebin.com/3rT1dGnW

Mouse Looking Script (For the camera itself in a third person view): https://pastebin.com/cTTSCE83

Camera Rotation Script (For the object the camera is on in a third person view): https://pastebin.com/4pV74Dp4

Time Control Script:https://pastebin.com/LPjwhNM8

A lot of this code is copied from open source however not everything I am trying to do can be found online. My problem is very critical for me because I need to be able to pause the player and camera when the game is paused regardless of the fact I am using Time.unscaledDeltaTime in their scripts. Is there any simple solution for that?

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rage_co · Aug 01, 2021 at 01:37 PM 1

So there's this small fix that comes to my $$anonymous$$d, create a variable delTime in each of the script that have this change...and when you need to change the time from normal Time.deltaTime to Time.unscaledDeltaTIme....just change the value of the delTIme through a simple if loop to use unscaledDeltaTime in the update method.......

and then use that delTime instead of the regular Time.deltaTime..in the scripts....you can create a separate script and use a singleton to reference it in all these scripts

MaxedCarp rage_co · Aug 01, 2021 at 02:53 PM 0

It's working. Thank you very much! Setting a singleton instance inside the game pausing script and changing delTime only within that script let me change the unscaledDeltaTime to deltaTime before the timeScale even changes to 0.