All You Need to Know About Coroutines | Unity Basics

Sometimes, you really need a method to run over several frames. It's really cumbersome to jury-rig your own solution to do that, and luckily you don't have to; coroutines are special methods in Unity which you can halt and resume on another frame.
In this video, learn what coroutines are, how to use them, and see how we can create custom ways to halt them!
I wrote about coroutines a while back, so go check out that article too:
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Everything in this tutorial should work in versions from Unity 5.3 onwards.
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[@emagiannu]

This tutorial is great! I felt pretty comfortable with Coroutines before watching the video and I learned a lot anyway

[@ThisIsSimonK]

great introduction! One thing i'd love to see a bit more information about is the lifecycle of a coroutine. For example, I think a common pitfall is that a running coroutine will not finish if the gameobject hosting it has been destroyed!

[@danielilett]

If I ever revisit the subject, I'll be sure to include stuff like that. You're absolutely right though, it's really easy to think of coroutines as code running "over there", out of sight, but it's still being executed on the same thread and on the GameObject. Destroy the GameObject, and you'll destroy all scripts running on it, including the coroutines running on those scripts.

[@MQNGameDev]

Thanks for the useful info. I use coroutines quite frequently but one question recently came to mind and there is little info on the subject. When you stop a cached coroutine using: StopCoroutine(m_cachedCoroutine); It will also stop any yielded coroutines within m_cachedCoroutine(Using yield return SomeOtherCoroutine();). However, if you were to replace the yield return SomeOtherCoroutine(); with StartCoroutine(SomeOtherCoroutine); within the coroutine, SomeOtherCoroutine() will continue to run its lifecycle even after stopping the cached coroutine. Thanks again for the great info. hitting subscribe and like now :)

[@BarcelonaMove]

This video is amazing good. Thank you guy, you are awesome!

[@danielilett]

Thanks! I'll be sure to make similar tutorials in the future :)

[@question_mark]

you are my hero

[@robosergTV]

mindblowing, thanks

[@PorcoPorchetto]

Man! great video and really great explanation of the topic, I'll check more of your content, and if the level Is this one, I'll sub bro :)

[@fredflinstoner9530]

Thanks subscribed