Can someone help me with wait?
So I was wondering how I would go about doing something like this:
I want to implement rounds in my game. I want it to either go for 18000 seconds, or until something happens(if a value is true or something). How would I do this?
I thought it had something to do with
while wait(18000) do
But then I realised that would loop it every 18,000 seconds.
3 answers
We instead check constantly, but keep track of how much time has passed. Here's two ways to do it:
1.
local start = tick();
while tick() - start > 18000 and not over do
wait(1);
end
2.
local time = 0;
while time < 18000 and not over do
time = time + wait(1);
end
(The wait time is of course changeable; just however quickly you want / need it to respond to the changing of whatever overcondition you have)
EDIT:
OR, we can intentionally have two threads race to do something first. I don't think this is a very good idea for several reasons, but it will work, most of the time, I think. It would require a little different set up, but may or may not be more elegant if a specific (ROBLOX instance) event triggers the end of the match:
local matchIdentifier = {};
function StopMatch(cause)
end
function endMatchIn(time,matchid)
delay(function()
if matchIdentifier == matchid then
StopMatch("time");
end
end, time);
end
function StartMatch()
matchIdentifier = {};
endMatchIn(18000,matchIdentifier);
end
-- Example of ending; end whenever a new player joins
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function()
StopMatch("join");
end);
(I do not think this is a good approach at all, but it will work)
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What is that 'something'? Depending on what it is, you'll have to write your script differently.
While BlueTaslem answer is perfectly fine, we can avoid a loop doing
local executed = false
function main()
if not executed then
print("Stuff here")
executed = true --To keep track
end
end
delay(5, main)
And if you want to execute the code before the time you just call main.