Timer breaks after changing scenes

Question

I am using this script below to move an animation in unity with no root-motion. It simply walks across the terrain.

I have timer attached also so the animation doesn't start to walk for 60 seconds. This works fine in the scene when played…but when I navigate into this scene from another home scene the timer delay doesn't work as I guess it has been triggered already and has already reached the 60 second mark? I have tried using DontDestroyOnLoad but this just recreates the animation in the home scene also.

I'm trying to keep the code as simple as possible and maybe add to the code below to fix it:

void Update ()
{
    if (Time.time > 60)
    {
        transform.Translate (0, 0, Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

Answer 1

Time.time returns the number of seconds since the start of the game. "Start of the game" refers to the moment the game was launched, not the moment the current scene was loaded.

If you want this movement to start 60 seconds after a scene has loaded, use Time.timeSinceLevelLoad instead. This returns the time in seconds since the last level has been loaded. In other words, it starts counting up from 0 every time a scene is loaded.

void Update ()
{
    if (Time.timeSinceLevelLoad > 60)
    {
        transform.Translate (0, 0, Time.deltaTime);
    }
}