Yielding Methods

These allow your script to "wait" for a certain amount of time, allowing you to delay certain actions, instead of running everything at once.

Yielding methods only stop the execution of the script in which they are used in.

How to find them?

Very simple! The serhelp methods command has a category called Yielding, where you can find yielding methods.

There are some methods that are yielding, but are not in the category e.g. the RunScriptAndWait method.

How to use them?

The Wait method

The simplest there is, its only argument is duration, meaning for how long should the script wait.

# Waits for 5 seconds
Wait 5s

# Waits for half a second
Wait 0.5s

# Waits for 15 milliseconds
Wait 15ms

# Waits for 5 minutes
Wait 5m

# Waits for half an hour
Wait .5h

Comments

Have you noticed lines like this? What are they?

# Waits for 5 seconds

These are comments! If the first character in the line is a pound sign, the entire line will be ignored! This allows us to document what a given script does.

The WaitUntil method

This is a much more advanced method, which will wait until a certain condition evaluates to true.

# Waits until the method {RoundInfo hasEnded} will return true, meaning the end of a round
WaitUntil ({RoundInfo hasEnded} == true)

# Waits until the method {AmountOf @scpPlayers} will return 0, meaning 0 alive SCPs
WaitUntil ({AmountOf @scpPlayers} == 0)

WaitUntil method uses conditions and value returning methods, which will be covered later down the tutorial series. These examples simply demonstrate what's possible.