How to pause any coroutine according to your global pause state :

[n0mad]

Hello,

as coroutines are very important in optimization processes, making them compatible with a game paused state could be vital.

So here we go :


In your class containing those coroutines (or in any abstract/singleton you want), put these functions :

public Coroutine _sync(){
        return StartCoroutine(PauseRoutine());  
    }
    
public IEnumerator PauseRoutine(){
        while (_myPauseState) {
            yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();  
        }
        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();   
    }

with _myPauseState being your global pause state.

then in any Coroutines, put this at the end (or at any place you want to check for a pause) :

yield return _sync();

I personally prefer to put the first code block into a generic baseClass, derived from MonoBehaviour , and then derive all my other "pause-able" classes from it. So I don't have to rewrite the block in all the new pause-able classes.