Best way to speed up a flashing block?

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What I'm trying to do is have a block flash on and off but do so faster and faster. Then when it gets to a certain speed flash at that speed for a small while then explode.

I've approached this two ways. One with using yield return new WaitForSeconds and making a set number of those until I got to the speed I wanted. But that looks really messy and doesn't feel very efficient to me. The second approach was to use if statements and a counter count down with a boolean toggling on and off. That felt a bit messy as well but would've worked, just as the WaitForSeconds would've worked, but required a bit too many if statements in my opinion.

Does anyone figure a more efficient way to go about this?

Thanks.

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Answer by DaveA · Mar 25, 2012 at 05:36 PM

You could also have a timeout value in Update:

 var lastTime = 0;
 var speed = 5;
 var acceleration = .2;
 var tooFast = 1;
 
 function Update()
 {
   if (Time.time - lastTime > speed)
   {
     lastTime = Time.time;
     ToggleFlash();
     speed -= acceleration;
     if (speed <= tooFast)
      Explode();
 
   }

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dre38w · Mar 25, 2012 at 06:48 PM 0

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Thank you! Wow, that is SO much more efficient! Works great thanks.

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