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Respawn script causing a lot of lag. Can help optimizing it?

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NGC4637 602 Moderation Voter
3 years ago

I have here a respawn script that will respawn a mob (that it is parented to). thing is whenever the mob respawns my game just freezes for like 4 seconds, before returning to normal.

I do not want this to happen so all I want is a more optimized (less laggy) version of the script below:

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01local _M = require(script.Parent.MobConfig)
02local Mob = script.Parent -- The mob
03local Enemy = Mob.Enemy -- the Mob's Humanoid
04 
05MobClone = Mob:Clone() -- Clone the mob (the mob is an R15 rig so that might be the reason it lags)
06 
07function Respawn()
08    if (not Mob) then return end
09    wait(_M.RespawnTime)
10    script.Parent:Destroy()
11    MobClone.Parent = game.Workspace.MobHolder.GrassPeople -- the place the character respawns in
12end   
13 
14Enemy.Died:Connect(Respawn)
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Maybe switch lines 10 and 11? radiant_Light203 1166 — 3y

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radiant_Light203 1166 Moderation Voter
3 years ago

I can't tell you why your script lags, it's mostly likely another reason, maybe you have connections that don't get GC'ed or maybe you have expensive functions running on the humanoid's death. Maybe it's the fact that you destroy the script's parent (and so does the script get destroyed) before parenting the mob to workspace.

I think it's better to use CollectionService coupled with Tiffany's Tag Viewer.

One way I would go about this using CollectionService is this way:

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01local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
02local connections = {}
03local mob = game:GetService("ServerStorage").GrassMan -- or wherever you have a mob stored
04 
05function respawnMob()
06    wait(respawnTime)
07    mob:Clone().Parent = workspace -- no need for a holder when you have them all
08end
09 
10for _,mob in pairs(CollectionService:GetTagged("GrassPeople")) do
11    connections[mob] = mob.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
12        if not mob then return end
13        mob:Destroy(); respawnMob(); connections[mob]:Disconnect() -- the ';' sign signifies an invisible new line so you can run multiple commands in one row
14    end)
15end
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alr, i'll look into this and see what i can do with it NGC4637 602 — 3y
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