A component mimicking the behaviour of Godot Engine's Timer node in a simple way. Written for Unity C#

Timer.cs

/*
*	Timer.cs
*	A component mimcking the behaviour of Godot Engine's
*	Timer node in a simple way. Written for Unity C#.
*	Attach this component to a gameobject for Timer feature 
*	access from other script in same gameobject.
*
*
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*
*	Copyright 2022 waimus
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using UnityEngine;


public class Timer : MonoBehaviour 
{
    public bool immediateStart = true;
    public float secondsLength = 1;
    public float processingTime = 0;
    public bool stopped = false;


    private void Start ()
    {
        processingTime = immediateStart ? secondsLength : 0;
    }


    private void Update()
    {
        if (processingTime > 0)
        {
            processingTime -= Time.deltaTime;
        }
        else
        {
            stopped = true;
        }
    }


    public void StartTimer(float t)
    {
        processingTime = t;
        stopped = false;
    }
}