issues using sleep() function

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Hi, I am working on a startup routine that puts players on 1v1 teams and the rest as spectators, and lets players choose weapons. I need to add a 1 second timer between changing classes so that it doesn’t bug if the player is standing on top of the class selector, and end up giving them the wrong weapons. I am getting an error if I try to add a sleep(1.0) function inside an if(): clause that says this type of function isn’t allowed here, So now I have a bunch of timers on my map that basically act as sleep functions. Is there a better solution?

Thanks!

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Yes you can’t put Sleep() inside if() statements, can you provide your code snippet please ?

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The only thing I could think of would be to make it async but idk how Verse works in that way

Here’s a short bit of code I use when the players pick a team in my 1v1

OnButtonInteractedWith() : void =
        if(s1 := Switch1.GetCurrentState[]):
            if(s2 := Switch2.GetCurrentState[]):

                Switch1.Disable()
                Switch2.Disable()

                timerpickteam.Disable()

                walltimer.Start()

                #DamageVolume.Enable()
                timer3.Start()
                timer4.Start()
                #trigger.Trigger()

It isn’t formatted well because I was experimenting, but basically once both players ready up it will eliminate them with a damage volume, and I have a different damage volume to eliminate the spectators after so that they spectate the players and don’t get bugged into a respawn in the sky. So basically I just have to wait one second after the first damage volume is turned on to disable it and turn the other one on. So I eventually used timer3 and timer4 to initiate the damage volumes at the correct time, then activate the trigger. But I would much rather use a Sleep() function because its really hard to change the code later without comments etc…

And also I plan on using a mutator zone and running a foreach loop on players of team, sending a Damage() function rather than a damage volume device, but this is as far as I got.

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Here you go :

OnButtonInteractedWith() : void =
    spawn{_OnButtonInteractedWith()}

_OnButtonInteractedWith()<suspends> : void =
        if(s1 := Switch1.GetCurrentState[]):
            if(s2 := Switch2.GetCurrentState[]):

                Switch1.Disable()
                Switch2.Disable()

                timerpickteam.Disable()

                walltimer.Start()

                #DamageVolume.Enable()
                Sleep(1.0) # Put this wherever you want
                timer3.Start()
                timer4.Start()
                #trigger.Trigger()
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