Question on Freezing and Resuming Time

DestinyAwaits · Nov 25, 2015

I have a question for you on something I've been stuck on. I've been trying to make it that when a popup(panel+text and button) appears, time in the game will freeze. Then I wanted to have it that when the button is clicked, time would resume. I tried using CancelInvoke("Timer") but that hasn't been working. Do you know how I could do it?

timeScript C# Script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class timeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
//uGUI Items
public Text date;

//Times
public static int week;
public static int month;
public static int year = 1980;
//amount of cash
public static int myCash = 10000;
public AlertBox alert;
public Text timeText;

bool timeActive = true;
int time;

int day;

public Text playerCash;

void Start()
{
InvokeRepeating("Timer", 0, 1);
}

public void Timer()
{
timeText.GetComponent<Text>().text = "W" + week.ToString() + "" + year.ToString();

playerCash.GetComponent<Text>().text = "$" + myCash.ToString();

#region YEAR
//Check if month equals 13 (allows for 12th month to be counted)
if (month == 13)
{
year++;
month = 0;
}
#endregion
#region MONTH
//Check if week equals 5 (allows for 5th week to be counted)
if (month == 5)
{
month++;
week = 0;
}
#endregion
#region WEEK
//Check if day equals 8 (allows for 7th day to be counted)
if (day == 8)
{
week++;
day = 0;
}
#endregion
#region DAY
//Check if Time equals 5 (allows for 4 seconds)
if (time == 2)
{
day++;
time = 0;
}
else
{
time++;
}
#endregion

if (week == 2 && month == 0 && year == 1980)
{
alert.PopUp("Welcome to iDeveloper! This is a pre-playable build that is not intended for consumer use");

}
else if (week == 4 && month == 0 && year == 1980)
{
alert.PopUp("To create a game, go to Make Game");

}
else if (week == 1 && month == 1 && year == 1981)
{
alert.PopUp("Create a game so you can earn money and grow your company!");
print("FES Coming in 4 years");
}
print(week);
print(month);
print(year);
}
}
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gameDictionaries C# Script:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class gameDictionaries : MonoBehaviour {
public Button makeButton;
public GameObject makePanel;
public Button make2button;
public GameObject make2Panel;
public Text consolePick;
public Button PCbutton; //$3000 dev cost at start
public Text pickplatform1;
public Button ntari2000button; //$5500 dev cost at start
public bool devkitntari2000 = false;
public bool devkitvoyager = false;
public GameObject buyDevKitPanel;
public Text buyKitText;
public Button purchaseDevKit;
public int devkitamount;
public string pickedsystem = "Develop for:";
public Button noThanks;
public int totalMake;
public Text totalDev;
public Button Voyagerbutton;
float time;

void Update(){
gameName = gameNameInput.text;
pickedsystem = consolePick.text;

}

void Somefunction(){
gameNames.Add("GameTitle", gameName); // Add a game name/title to the "list" of concurrent games made by the player

}

public void makeProduct(string message)
{
makeButton.gameObject.SetActive (true);
makePanel.SetActive (true);
make2button.gameObject.SetActive(true);
totalDev.gameObject.SetActive(true);
totalDev.GetComponent<Text>().text = "Total Development Cost: $" + totalMake.ToString();

}

public void makeProduct2()
{
makeButton.gameObject.SetActive(false);
makePanel.SetActive(false);
make2button.gameObject.SetActive(false);
totalDev.gameObject.SetActive(false);
pickplatform1.gameObject.SetActive(true);
pickplatform1.GetComponent<Text>().text = "Pick Platform 1 for Game";
make2Panel.SetActive(true);
PCbutton.gameObject.SetActive(true);
ntari2000button.gameObject.SetActive(true);
if(timeScript.year >= 1980 && timeScript.month == 1 && timeScript.week == 1)
{
Voyagerbutton.gameObject.SetActive(true);
}
}
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Basically I want to make it that it'll stop the timer from timeScript when gameDictionaries' makeProduct is called/used. Then when I go to say makeProduct2, I want time to resume. How would I do that?

DeathQuake · Nov 26, 2015

Why not try this ?
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeScale.html

mikeymike · Dec 2, 2015

Code (csharp):

Time.timeScale = 0.0f;

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