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Best practise time-based, repeating function calls: InvokeRepeating vs CustomSolution
I recently started work on a strategy game, which is very similar to games like ANNO, CIVILIZATION and SETTLERS.
For this I had to write a lot of functions which repeat each X seconds, e.g. worker requesting resources, taxes ticking every minute etc.
I solved this the following way:
private float repeatingIntervalInSeconds = 15;
private float timeSinceLastCall;
private void Update()
{
timeSinceLastCall += Time.deltaTime;
if(timeSinceLastCall >= repeatingIntervalInSeconds)
{
timeSinceLastCall -= repeatingIntervalInSeconds;
functionCall();
}
}
This however adds a lot of boilerplate. Now I read about InvokeRepeating but also read that it involves some overhead.
Is there another better way I overlooked or is it fine to use InvokeRepeating?
