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WaitForSeconds Constructor

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public WaitForSeconds(seconds: float)
public WaitForSeconds(float seconds);

Description

Creates a yield instruction to wait for a given number of seconds using scaled time.

    // Prints 0
    print (Time.time);
    // Waits 5 seconds
    yield WaitForSeconds (5);
    // Prints 5.0
    print (Time.time);
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { IEnumerator Example() { print(Time.time); yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); print(Time.time); } }

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