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Script does not care about variable speed?

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hasanchik 49

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

So i made a game and i need to use this script:

01Pos = script.Parent.Position
02Timer = 0
03Spd = 10
04Radius = 1
05while true do
06X = Pos.X+Radius*math.cos(Timer-1*Spd*15)*1
07Z = Pos.Y+Radius*math.cos(Timer-11*Spd*15)*1
08script.Parent.Position = Vector3.new(X,Pos.Y,Z)
09Timer = Timer + 0.1
10wait(0.1)
11end

Basically it makes a star particle emitter move like a circle and make a knock-out effect. But the script doesen't care about the Spd (Speed) variable. As example, when i change the speed to 100, It wont have an effect. Help?

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Answered by

GriffthouBiff 147

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

You want to have timer change by speed to get the result you want. Otherwise, by multiplying the argument of math.cos by speed, you simply change the starting position of the cosine graph (try twiddling around with (y = cos(x - 1 * d * 15) in desmos. You ideally want a script that looks like this.

01Pos = script.Parent.Position
02Timer = 0
03Spd = 10
04Radius = 1
05while true do
06    X = Pos.X+Radius*math.cos(Timer-1*Spd*15) -- no clue why there was a * 1 here
07    Z = Pos.Y+Radius*math.cos(Timer-11*Spd*15)
08    script.Parent.Position = Vector3.new(X,Pos.Y,Z)
09    Timer = Timer + Spd/10
10    wait(0.1)
11end

Furthermore, based on what you described, this script should be in a local script. Thus to update the animation every frame to make it look way smoother, use https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/RunService/Heartbeat instead of wait(0.1)

Script does not care about variable speed?

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