Never use DELAY node in Unreal Engine | Use Timers Instead | Tutorial

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[@YEAHSURETHINGMAN]

How many full games have you shipped? It seems some devs are more interested in the act of making the game, instead of ever actually making anything.

[@chankulovski]

@@YEAHSURETHINGMAN 11 games (some of them are on my itch.io). What I'm teaching here, I'm implementing the same things in my games. I hope these Tutorials are valuable to you. Thanks

[@darkbionicle6]

Hello there nice tutorial
Delays are really good in certain situations and bad in others, they can be especially problematic with code flow execution where its easy to mess up the order of operation (but thats a general problem with delayed code) so i would generally say to be careful with using them in general!
With that said, the solution you provided its not a bad solution, but if your main concern with delays is that they stop all code that comes after them, you could simply use a sequence (you can spawn one by holding down S and click with left click anywhere in the blueprint event graph) and use that to split delayed action with normal code execution.
Hope this helps!

[@chankulovski]

@@darkbionicle6 Nope... Delay nodes are bad in every situation. They are made to quickly prototype some mechanics, but then they should be replaced with Timers. And the last but not least, only lazy people are using nodes like Delay, Casting, Event Tick, and they are finding all possible excuse to keep using it.

[@darkbionicle6]

@@chankulovski Im not sure where you have gotten the idea that delay nodes are always bad and that lazy people use them, but i can assure you that they are vastly used within the industry at a professional level as well. Sometimes taking shortcuts for certain scenarios is a benefit that one cannot just skip over.
Moreover in the video as well as in your comment you haven't explained exactly why delays are always worse than timers apart from the specific case you have provided, do you have more to share on that?

[@chankulovski]

@@darkbionicle6 I will send you a link soon. Not everything can be said in one video. I can say more, but then the video will be too long and it will lose the effect of learning (rarely someone watches long videos, unless really really necessary, like creating a whole game/prototype or similar).

[@darkbionicle6]

@@chankulovski Awesome, thank you! :)

[@chankulovski]

@@darkbionicle6 www.doppelganger1989.com/blog
Scroll all the way down :)

[@VeganApps]

Never say never! Delays are great.. but not to create infinite loops, of course! oO

[@chankulovski]

@@VeganApps No ... NEVER use Delays, use Timers instead (if you want your game to run properly), it's very simple :)

[@nullhakunamatatabyte8042]

thx for this advice u show always better way the do it

[@chankulovski]

@@nullhakunamatatabyte8042 Thanks ! Doing my best :) Thanks for your kind words

[@faxtm260]

I usually use set timer by function name for values that I need to check instead of using the tick event, it's that ok?

[@chankulovski]

@@faxtm260 Set Timer By Function Name is also great! That's the same method like in this video with the Custom Event, so instead of Custom Event and Timer, you are using Function, so yes, it ok. Just make sure to Clear And Invalidate the timer when you finish your task.

[@chankulovski]

@@faxtm260 you are doing well, DON'T USE EVENT TICK, EVER ! Check out this Tutorial to see more clearly why :)
th-cam.com/video/HeotnYTZf80/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KLdtADB6QZhuzHIr

[@attentivenettle7643]

I still don't get why the delay node is more expensive. It seems simple. Can someone explain please?

[@chankulovski]

www.doppelganger1989.com/blog
Scroll all the way down, it's all there :)

[@attentivenettle7643]

@@chankulovski
Ok i read it. Thank you so much for replying and for introducing me to even timer

[@chankulovski]

@@attentivenettle7643 You are welcome! I always reply, so feel free to ask anything you want to know, I will do my best to assist you. More Tutorials are coming, so keep an eye on the Channel. If interested, I have a full Course on Udemy at a 40% discount, 30 days full refund if not satisfied, you can give it a try if needed. Thanks again!