I'm making a script giving how many seconds until the next round. The problem is that the GUI seems to count up to negative numbers (such as -1, -2, etc.) instead of fully stopping at 0.
local time = 20
for i = 1,20 do
wait(1)
time = time - 1
hintText.Text = "Next round in: "..tostring(time)
end
Instead of taking way one from a time variable, I would suggest modifying your for loop so that it counts backwards from 20 to 1. To count backwards in a for loop, there's a third argument you can give which is the increment.
With this in mind, we can make the increment -1 and it will count backwards from 20 to 1 and then set i in the hint text, instead of the time variable that we don't need.
Final code:
--No need for the time variable
for i = 20,1,-1 do --For loop, wth the variable i starting at 20 and ending at one with an increment of -1.
hintText.Text = "Next round in: "..i --No need to convert to a string here, numbers will be converted to strings automatically when concatenated.
wait(1) --I like to wait after setting the text so that the text is instantly set in the for loop first.
end
I hope my answer helped you. If it did, be sure to accept it.
Why dont you use your for loop instead.
for i =1,20,1 do
hintText.Text = " Text here "..i
end
Sorry im on the phone
He wants the time to go down, so you need to have 20 as the first argument, 1 as the second argument and -1 as the third, optional argument.
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This is in a LocalScript.