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How to delay the else statement without coroutine in unity c#?

I have a joystick display picture for my game. Currently, when the player touches the screen the image disappears and when the player is not touching the screen, it reappears. I wrote that using an if else statement.
if (indicator.inputIndicator.x != 0)
{
joystick.SetActive(false);
}
else
{
joystick.SetActive(true);
}
The problem is, I want the image to reappear after some time like 2 seconds. I want to delay the "else", but I do not want to use a coroutine. I want "else" to work after 2 seconds since the player takes his hand off the screen but I couldn't figure out how to do it. any help will be great.

Setting a timer is a pretty common problem you have to solve in Unity. One basic approach is to have a variable that you add Time.deltaTime every update. That way you can tell how long it has been since some condition was met.
Every Update iteration that meets the condition, add Time.deltaTime to the variable. If at some point the condition fails, reset the variable to 0. Then you can just base your joystick.SetActive() call on the value of your variable.
For example, your script might become:
float thresholdTimeToShowPrompt = 2;
// By starting at the threshold, the image is hidden at the start until a touch
float timeSincePlayerTouch = 2;
void Update()
{
// Rather than calling SetActive directly, just update the timer
if (indicator.inputIndicator.x != 0)
{
timeSincePlayerTouch = 0;
}
else
{
timeSincePlayerTouch += Time.deltaTime;
}
// Now we can base visibility on the time since the last user touch
bool shouldShowIcon = timeSincePlayerTouch >= thresholdTimeToShowPrompt;
// Only call SetActive when needed, in case of overhead
if (shouldShowIcon && !joystick.activeSelf)
{
joystick.SetActive(true);
}
else if (!shouldShowIcon && joystick.activeSelf)
{
joystick.SetActive(false);
}
}

Particle system unity not always showing, unity

So I'm trying to add a particle effect to a little space game of mine, I get axis "Vertical", then check if it is greater than 0 the particle system plays (going forward)
flyfloat = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
if(flyfloat > 0)
{
particles.Play();
}
else
{
particles.Stop();
}
That controls whether it is playing the particle system, but the issue i have is that it only gives some particles and then stops, I've viewed the flyfloat and it is at 1.
What may the problem be here?
Thanks

You question is incomplete as for example I don't know where you are using these lines of code.. inside an Update() method or a Start() method.
Assuming you are calling it in Update() method. Let me explain first what is happening wrong here. So as Update() gets called each frame when you pressing UP_Arrow key flyfloat = 1 . that's ok but now as you go inside the if loop to check flyfloat > 0 and calls partciles.Play() it is being called every Update() loop means every frame so what's happening is your ParticleSystem is getting played every frame so not playing at all. Also whenever you stops pressing the UP_Arrow key the flyfloat = 0 for which it's going inside the else loop and stops playing the ParticleSystem.
So to solve this you can introduce a Boolean which makes partciles.Play() and partciles.Stop() gets called once when you are pressing UP_Arrow key.
below code will make the ParticleSystem play when you press UP_Arrow key and stops it when you press DOWN_Arrow key
public ParticleSystem particles;
public float flyfloat;
bool isParticlePlaying = false;
private void Update()
{
flyfloat = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
if (flyfloat > 0 && !isParticlePlaying)
{
particles.Play();
isParticlePlaying = true;
}
else if (flyfloat < 0 && isParticlePlaying)
{
particles.Stop();
isParticlePlaying = false;
}
}

How can you check if object is moving/not moving?

i want to make a simple script that when u clicked the screen the ball in the game will move (20000 * Time.deltaTime) to the right, and then if i'll click again, it will move to the left side and then right and so on.
I managed to get the ball to move to the right, but i need it to wait after the animation is finish because i need to check if the player clicked again (if he did i need to check to what direction to move the ball).
I tried many methods i found online like checking if Rigidbody.velocity.magnitude == 0.0f that means the ball is not moving..
public Rigidbody rb;
public Transform PlayerPosition;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
rb.AddForce(20000 * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0); // moving ball to the right
while (rb.velocity.magnitude != 0.0f) // I tried to check until the ball is not moving
{
}
Debug.Log(PlayerPosition.position.x);
}
}
And here is my latest try:
void Update()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
rb.AddForce(20000 * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0); // moving ball to the right
if(rb.velocity.magnitude < 0.05f) // if i click the ball it just prints it and not wating for the ball to not move
{
Debug.Log(PlayerPosition.position.x);
}
}
}
I expected the output to wait until the animation is finished but instead, its printing the vaule(x) the moment i click the mouse.

Edit
You need to check if your animation is still playing. You are checking only if your velocity is greater than 0.05f, which is correctly printing out the statement.
Use Animation.IsPlaying(string name). One caveat is that this method will return false for the same frame of Update that it was invoked, since the animation hasn't technically started until afterward.
void Update()
{
if (!rb.velocity.magnitude <= 0.01f && !Animation.IsPlaying(nameOfAnimation))
{
Debug.Log("We're not moving and the animation is not playing");
}
}
Original
You should not need to use while in your Update method.
Use an if statement inside of your Update
void Update()
{
if (rb.velocity.magnitude > 0.01f) Debug.Log("We're moving!");
}

First
rb.velocity.magnitude != 0.0f
will almost allways be true due to single precision floatong point : Two float values even if they seem to be equal logical are most likely not.
So you can either use a threshold how you tried already
if(rb.velocity.magnitude <= 0.5f)
or use Mathf.Approximately which uses a very small Epsilon or threshold for the comparing
if(Mathf.Approximately(rb.velocity.magintude, 0))
Than it sounds like you want to wait until the ball has stopped moving and than output the position - like e.g. for a billard game. So actually there seems to be no Animation involved.
In most cases where you think/speek of of an "animation" you actually mean "doing something over time" not to confuse with using an Animator or Animation component with AnimationClips in Unity.
You can/should use a Coroutine for that:
public Rigidbody rb;
public Transform PlayerPosition;
// a flag to make sure there is only one animation at a time
private bool isMoving;
// a flag for altering between left and right movement
private bool isMovingRight;
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
// only allow clicks while not moving already
if (!isMoving && Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
// stop further input until not moving anymore
isMoving = true;
// add the force
// (you might btw want to skip that Time.deltaTime here it makes no sense)
rb.AddForce(isMovingRight ? 20000 : -20000 * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);
// alter the direction for the next call
isMovingRight = !isMovingRight;
// if you rather want to be able to interrupt the current animation by clicking again
// remove the isMoving flag and instead use this
//StopCoroutine(WaitForMoveStops());
// Start the routine
StartCoroutine(WaitForMoveStops());
}
}
private IEnumerator WaitForMoveStops()
{
// Inside a Coroutine while is okey now
// as long as you yield somwhere
// check if velocity is below threshold
while (!Mathf.Approximately(rb.velocity.magnitude, 0)
{
// yield in simple words means "leave" this method here, render the frame
// and than continue from here in the next frame
yield return null;
}
// I would now hard reset the velocity just to be sure
rb.velocity = Vector3.zero;
Debug.Log(PlayerPosition.position.x);
// whatever you want to do now
// reset the flag to allow input again
isMoving = false;
}

I think you want to move it if it's stopped, then call AddForce only when it's idle:
var wasMovingLastTime = false;
void Update()
{
var isMoving = rb.velocity.magnitude > 0f;
if (wasMovingLastTime && !isMoving)
{
/// Has just finished moving
Debug.Log(PlayerPosition.position.x);
}
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
if (!isMoving)
{
rb.AddForce(20000 * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);
}
}
wasMovingLastTime = isMoving;
}

How to check if a certain animation state from an animator is running?

I created an animator called "m4a4animator". Inside it, the main function is called "idle" (nothing), and other 2 states: "shoot" (mouse0) and "reload" (R). These 2 animation states are transitioned to "idle". Now, everything is working... but the only problem I have is this: if I am in the middle of reloading and and press mouse0 (shoot), the animation running state immediately changes to shoot... but I want to block that.
Now, the question: How can I stop CERTAIN animation changes while an animation is running?
Here is my animator
And here is my script:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class m4a4 : MonoBehaviour {
public Animator m4a4animator;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.R)) {
m4a4animator.Play("reload");
}
if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)) {
m4a4animator.Play("shoot");
}
}
}

For the legacy Animation system, Animation.IsPlaying("TheAnimatonClipName) is used to check if the animation clip is playing.
For the new Mechanim Animator system, you have to check if both anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).IsName(stateName) and anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).normalizedTime < 1.0f) are true. If they are then animation name is currently playing.
This can be simplified like the function like the Animation.IsPlaying function above.
bool isPlaying(Animator anim, string stateName)
{
if (anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).IsName(stateName) &&
anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).normalizedTime < 1.0f)
return true;
else
return false;
}
Now, everything is working... but the only problem I have is this: if
I am in the middle of reloading and and press mouse0 (shoot), the
animation running state immediately changes to shoot... but I want to
block that.
When the shoot button is pressed, check if the "reload" animation is playing. If it is, don't shoot.
public Animator m4a4animator;
int animLayer = 0;
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R))
{
m4a4animator.Play("reload");
}
//Make sure we're not reloading before playing "shoot" animation
if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && !isPlaying(m4a4animator, "reload"))
{
m4a4animator.Play("shoot");
}
}
bool isPlaying(Animator anim, string stateName)
{
if (anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).IsName(stateName) &&
anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(animLayer).normalizedTime < 1.0f)
return true;
else
return false;
}
If you need to wait for the "reload" animation to finish playing before playing the "shoot" animation then use a coroutine. This post described how to do so.

There are other threads about that: https://answers.unity.com/questions/362629/how-can-i-check-if-an-animation-is-being-played-or.html
if (this.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("YourAnimationName"))
{
//your code here
}
this tells you if you are in a certain state.
Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime
this give you the normalized time of the animation: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState-normalizedTime.html
Try to play with those function, I hope that solve your problem

How to manage animations?

I'm using C# and I'm currently building a 3rd person view game. I have a 3D character model with the animations in frames so I have to cut the animations by frame
The problem is I currently have 5 animations (idle, run, walk, punch, jump) and this is my code
void Update () {
if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") != 0 || Input.GetAxis("Vertical") != 0){
//play run animation
} else {
if (motion.x != 0 || motion.z != 0){
motion.x = 0;
motion.z = 0;
}
//play idle anim
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && controller.isGrounded){
//play jump anim
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P)){
//play punch anim
}
if (!controller.isGrounded){
//play jump anim
}
vertVelo -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
motion.y = vertVelo;
this.controller.Move(motion * Time.deltaTime);
}
The problem occurs when I press P to make the character punch. It seems the idle animation in the update function is being called so that the punch animation doesn't have time to play.
So, what's the solution? are there any animation managing technique or should I use delay?

You may block idle animation while punch is playing (but may be it's not best approach):
bool isPunchPlaying = false;
void Update () {
//...
if (!isPunchPlaying) {
// Play idle anim
}
// ...
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.P)){
//play punch anim
isPunchPlaying = true;
StartCoroutine(WaitThenDoPunch(animation["punch"].length));
}
// ...
}
IEnumerator WaitThenDoPunch(float time) {
yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
isPunchPlaying = false;
}

Try googling for animation layers in Unity and blending between animations.
You can set anim loops on a layer with higher layer numbers overriding lower layers.
This means that you can have the idle loop on say layer 1, and this plays continuously. Then say your jump loop is on layer 2. When the jump logic fires the jump loop, it plays once, then the idle loop continues.
This doc on 'AnimationState' in Unity could also be useful > link <