The completion time in seconds since the last frame (Read Only).
This property provides the time between the current and previous frame.
Use Time.deltaTime to move a GameObject in the y
direction, at n
units per second. Multiply n
by Time.deltaTime and add to the y
component.
MonoBehaviour.FixedUpdate uses fixedDeltaTime instead of deltaTime. Do not rely on Time.deltaTime inside MonoBehaviour.OnGUI. Unity can call OnGUI multiple times per frame. The application use the same deltaTime value per call.
The following example implements a timer
. The timer
adds deltaTime each frame. The example announces the timer
value and resets it to zero when it reaches 2 seconds. The timer
does not hit 2.0 when MonoBehaviour.Update adds deltaTime. The test is for the timer
moving 2 seconds. The script code removes the reported time, and the timer
restarts. The restart is not always exactly 0.0. The speed changes between 0.5 and 2.0 seconds. Time.timeScale stores the chosen time-is-passing scale.
using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;
// Time.deltaTime example. // // Wait two seconds and display waited time. // This is typically just beyond 2 seconds. // Allow the speed of the time to be increased or decreased. // It can range between 0.5 and 2.0. These changes only // happen when the timer restarts.
public class ScriptExample : MonoBehaviour { private float waitTime = 2.0f; private float timer = 0.0f; private float visualTime = 0.0f; private int width, height; private float value = 10.0f; private float scrollBar = 1.0f;
void Awake() { width = Screen.width; height = Screen.height; Time.timeScale = scrollBar; }
void Update() { timer += Time.deltaTime;
// Check if we have reached beyond 2 seconds. // Subtracting two is more accurate over time than resetting to zero. if (timer > waitTime) { visualTime = timer;
// Remove the recorded 2 seconds. timer = timer - waitTime; Time.timeScale = scrollBar; } }
void OnGUI() { GUIStyle sliderDetails = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.GetStyle("horizontalSlider")); GUIStyle sliderThumbDetails = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.GetStyle("horizontalSliderThumb")); GUIStyle labelDetails = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.GetStyle("label"));
// Set the size of the fonts and the width/height of the slider. labelDetails.fontSize = 6 * (width / 200); sliderDetails.fixedHeight = height / 32; sliderDetails.fontSize = 12 * (width / 200); sliderThumbDetails.fixedHeight = height / 32; sliderThumbDetails.fixedWidth = width / 32;
// Show the slider. Make the scale to be ten times bigger than the needed size. value = GUI.HorizontalSlider(new Rect(width / 8, height / 4, width - (4 * width / 8), height - (2 * height / 4)), value, 5.0f, 20.0f, sliderDetails, sliderThumbDetails);
// Show the value from the slider. Make sure that 0.5, 0.6... 1.9, 2.0 are shown. float v = ((float)Mathf.RoundToInt(value)) / 10.0f; GUI.Label(new Rect(width / 8, height / 3.25f, width - (2 * width / 8), height - (2 * height / 4)), "timeScale: " + v.ToString("f1"), labelDetails); scrollBar = v;
// Display the recorded time in a certain size. labelDetails.fontSize = 14 * (width / 200); GUI.Label(new Rect(width / 8, height / 2, width - (2 * width / 8), height - (2 * height / 4)), "Timer value is: " + visualTime.ToString("f4") + " seconds.", labelDetails); } }
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