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In the middle of a loop, how to I make it start back to the beginning?

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VeryRaven 85
7 years ago
Edited 7 years ago
 
--[MAIN GAME SCRIPT]
while true do
    wait()
if checkPlayers() then --if the required amount of players is reached, then
        deleteLastMap()
        wait(1)
        intermission()
        wait(1)
        choosemap()
        wait(3)
        displayChosen()
        wait(2)
        loadMinigame()
        wait(2)
        startGame()
        wait(1)
        round()
    end 
end

Note: This is only part of a script for a minigames game I'm making.

When the function named "round" is happening, for each 0.01 seconds, I want the script to detect if game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value == true. However, I cannot do this in the function named "round" because the loop would be stuck on "round()".

So, I made a separate script for detecting if the GameEnded value is true. When it is true, all of the players get teleported to a random spawn in the lobby. Here is that script:

--[GAME ENDED DETECTOR]
while true do
        wait(0.01)
    if game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value == true then
        game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value = false
            local spawns = game.Workspace.Lobby.Spawns:GetChildren()
            local r = math.random(#spawns)
            local randomspawn = spawns[r]
    for i, player in ipairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
        if player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
            player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = randomspawn.CFrame+Vector3.new(0,3,0)
            wait(0.01)
        end 
    end 
end
end

Everything works fine -- except when the player wins the game. What I did is when the player wins the game, the value, "GameEnded" equals true. Since the GameEnded value is true, the players get teleported to the lobby, but, the loop doesn't restart because I haven't messed with that. I know that it hasn't restarted because when I test the game, and win a round, the GUI timer for the round is still going.

So, when the GameEnded value is true, I need to cut off the function, "round" and start the loop from the beginning, but it's not that simple in this situation (for me at least)...

I've thought about changing the "if checkplayers()" part by adding to it, "and game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value == true then", but here's an issue: GameEnded isn't set to true when the game server starts. Even if it was set to true when the server starts, then that wouldn't work out because I've tried it before and it just plain doesn't work...

I'm extremely lost and I don't know what to do! I've searched up information about loops, made a previous question about this (but deleted it because it was unclear). It's been hard trying to fix this because the scripts are like... I don't know how to describe it... Fragile! If I change one thing, then I have to change the other... Could someone help please?

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Answered by
superwar55 48
7 years ago

I'm sorry if I can't offer much, but if you use "return" in your loop when the condition is fulfilled, it will stop the function it is in, so maybe your script would look like this:

while true do
    --blah blah blah
    if game.workspace.GameEnded.Value == true then
        --Everything that happens
        return
    end
end

Of course, you would need to call it again since it would stop the whole function, but I guess that counts as starting the loop from the beginning.

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I'm not sure if that is really the solution since I see return only used for returning variables, function arguments, and etc. User#18043 95 — 7y
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Return can also be used to end a function, but you're correct in that sense as well. superwar55 48 — 7y
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I've thought about that, buttttt, like I said in the original post, the while true do in the round function (or pretty much in any other function mentioned in the loop) would make the loop stop, since I tried what you said earlier.... When I added a return the function just kept on going for some reason. VeryRaven 85 — 7y
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Answered by
VeryRaven 85
7 years ago

Since I'm adding part of the script to this, I'm putting this as an answer because in comments I can't format the script. I took a bit of superwar55's answer to add "return" but changed a lot more too to make this work. Here it is!

function round()
    local roundTime = 30
    game.Workspace.RoundLength.Value = roundTime
    for i = 1, roundTime do -- in seconds
        wait(1)
        roundTime = roundTime - 1
        message.Value = " "..MinsToSecs(roundTime).."  "
        for i = 0.01, 100 do
            wait(0.01)
                if game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value == true then
        game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value = false
            local spawns = game.Workspace.Lobby.Spawns:GetChildren()
            local r = math.random(#spawns)
            local randomspawn = spawns[r]
    for i, player in ipairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
        if player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
            player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = randomspawn.CFrame+Vector3.new(0,3,0)
            return
        end
    end
    game.Workspace.GameEnded.Value = true
    message.Value = "Nobody won! Round has ended!"
    wait(2)
end end end end

So what I did is within the each second of the countdown, I squeezed in the if the GameEnded == true statement for each hundredth of a second. Since I used superwar's idea, I'm going to accept his answer. Thanks!

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