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What was the easy way to insert a part into the workspace for a set amount of time?

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Rusty scripter here. I haven't scripted for a while and so I've forgotten how to do certain things. One of the things I remember you could do was to insert an object into the workspace for a set amount of time before it was destroyed. It would look something like this:

workspace.addTemporaryInstance(part, 5)

This would inset the part into the workspace for 5 seconds after which the part would be destroyed.

As implied, I've forgotten how to do this. Any ideas?

Anonymous

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AFAIK there was no official function for this.

You could write something like this:

local function spawnTempPart(parent,part,time)
part.Parent = parent
wait(time)
if part then part:Destroy() end
return

EDIT: Found this: Debris:AddItem() developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/Debris

so

part.Parent = game.Workspace
Debris:AddItem(part, 5)
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Thank you so much! Debris was exactly what I was looking for.

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