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Why is it printing 'nil', when it should be printing a random number? (notice me '3')
I was just testing things out, but on the last line print(xPosition), it is printing 'nil', how do I prevent that from happening?
01 | local xPosition |
02 | local AmountOfCash |
03 |
04 | local corouti = coroutine.create(function() |
05 | while wait() do |
06 | AmountOfCash = Player.leaderstats.Cash.Value |
07 | end |
08 | end) |
09 |
10 | coroutine.resume(corouti) |
11 |
12 | local genRandomNumber = coroutine.create(function() |
13 | while wait() do |
14 | xPosition = math.random(0.200, 0.500) |
15 | end |
16 | end) |
17 |
18 | coroutine.resume(genRandomNumber) |
19 | print(xPosition) |
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I believe it is due to while wait() do. During that wait() the thread is paused and print(xPosition) runs, therefore returning a value of nil.
Since the coroutine is a separate thread, the local variable xPosition is outside the scope and so the xPosition within the loop is not the same variable.
You can remedy this by making xPosition a global variable and assigning it a value and putting a print inside the genRandomNumber coroutine.
01 | xPosition = 0 |
02 |
03 | local genRandomNumber = coroutine.create(function() |
04 | while wait() do |
05 | xPosition = math.random(0.200, 0.500) |
06 | print(xPosition) |
07 | end |
08 | end) |
09 |
10 | coroutine.resume(genRandomNumber) |
As a side note, if you want a decimal then you need to be doing something like this:
1 | local x = math.random(2, 5)/100 |