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Have a script wait precisely?
I have a countdown that counts down a hour per second. Over time, the countdown would be over 5 minutes or less then 5 minutes. Is there a way to have wait() perfectly exact?
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I don't really understand what you're saying, can you rephrase? YaYaBinks3 110 — 10y
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When you use roblox wait(), it will have roblox decide how much micro seconds to add and puts it with the wait. Like if I request to wait(1), it would sometimes wait(1.01512512241) or wait(0.9995123152). Its what roblox does to allow scripts to have time to run. But I want this script to be precise. Nickoakz 231 — 10y
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Oh, I see. So like, when you use a large integer with wait(), all the extra micro seconds add up. infalliblelemon 145 — 10y
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Yes.. Nickoakz 231 — 10y
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Why do you need this? YaYaBinks3 110 — 10y
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I need a countdown that exactly counts down a hour. Such as 5:00pm to 6:00pm. Nickoakz 231 — 10y
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The solution is to check actual elapsed time rather than assume the previous times add up to something.
Consider the following functions which count to ten in ten seconds:
function pause(time)
wait(time - 0.1 + math.random() * 0.2);
end
-- We use this just to introduce extra
-- variance, for demonstration, although
-- the actual variance in wait is
-- really small.
function loopOne()
for i = 1, 10 do
print(i,10,pause(1));
end
end
function loopSmart()
local last = -1;
local start = tick();
while true do
pause(0.1);
local elapsed = math.floor(tick() - start);
if elapsed ~= last then
print(elapsed+1,10);
end
last = elapsed;
if elapsed > 10 then
break;
end
end
end
loopOne();
-- May take variable amounts of time
loopSmart();
--The prints might be off slightly,
-- (more than with other method),
-- but the overall time is
-- guaranteed to be bounded to within
-- however small you can wait for.