M.E.C.

⌛ MEC

You should use MEC for small things like delaying actions for some seconds or creating loops.

Examples

Simple Delayed Action

To delay actions with MEC you just have to call Timing.CallDelayed(float, Action) which executes the action after a given number of seconds.

using MEC;

public void OnPlayerChangingRole(PlayerChangingRoleEventArgs args)
{
    Timing.CallDelayed(3f, () => 
    {
        args.Player.Position = Vector3.zero;
    });
}

Simple Coroutine

In certain actions, you may want to delay some step for a frame or a couple seconds. Coroutines are handy in this type of cases. To create a coroutine you may follow the next example:

using MEC;

public IEnumerator<float> MyCoroutine(Player player) // You can pass arguments
{
    player.Role = RandomRoles.GetOne();
    yield return Timing.WaitForSeconds(5); // Stops execution for 5 seconds

    player.ShowBroadcast("See you in the next frame!");
    yield return Timing.WaitForOneFrame; // Stops execution for 1 frame

    player.ShowBroadcast("There you are!")
}

However, you can't run the method directly, you need to use a special method to run the coroutine:

public void OnPlayerChangingRole(PlayerChangingRoleEventArgs args)
{
    Timing.RunCoroutine(MyCoroutine(args.Player));
}

Simple Loop

With the already known concepts, we can do a simple loop to repeat things over time.

public IEnumerator<float> MyLoopCoroutine()
{
    while (true) // or for(;;)
    {
        Map.ShowBroadcast("See you all in 5 minutes!");
        yield return Timing.WaitForSeconds(600); // wait for 5 minutes
    }
}