How do I make it so this script runs every 10 seconds without using task.wait()?

[median spear]

use ai

[thin wind]

you can use dt

[eager gale]

brchacho

[median spear]

ai can find a way trust

[eager gale]

i asked ai and it messed up my code

hell no

[eager gale]

dt?

[median spear]

fine as a software engineer ill help you

[thin wind]

delta time its the variable apssing in through renderstepped

its the amount of time passed between the last frame

you can use that instead of task.wait

[eager gale]

i see

no i dont

[thin wind]

and dont relay on ai its not good long term

[eager gale]

ima kinda new and i dunno what that is

[median spear]

did yu try using task.delay

[hushed carbon]

** You are now Level 1! **

[eager gale]

or how to use it

[median spear]

sthu

ai is good

[thin wind]

just search up brawl dev for renderstepped

[thin wind]

no its not bro....

[eager gale]

doesnt that still halt the entire function?

[thin wind]

ive used it an its not good for advanced stuf

[median spear]

yu right

[median spear]

use RunService.Heartbeat

[thin wind]

erm actually it halts the thrread if u didnt use ai you would know that!

[median spear]

i didnt use ai lmao

[thin wind]

start using it bro

[median spear]

holy glaze

[thin wind]

hhahaha

yea all jokes aside use ai to help you learn its goated for that but once u get good enough to code without it just leave it for ssyntax and just simple recommendations

[eager gale]

use heartbeat toooo

cuz i alr am using that

[eager gale]

i will do this

[median spear]

why are you using talk.wait if yu dont even want a delay

[eager gale]

i dont want it to delay

so

im not gonna use task.wait

[median spear]

alr

[eager gale]

so I use runservice.renderstepped and keep track of delta time?

but if delta time keeps track of the time between frames, how would I tell the script if ten seconds has passed?

[thorny moon]

instead of delta time, i would just have a loop that continuously checks if the current os.clock() is greater than the recorded "cooldown until" os.clock() + 10

[eager gale]

so i should use os.clock() to keep track if 10 seconds has passed

why didnt i think of that...

[thorny moon]

though, im not sure what your aversion is to task.wait
also, are you wanting the quickTimeEvent to run every tren seconds? or the game.RunService.Heartbeat's function to run

[eager gale]

the entire function to run every ten seconds

i was out of ideas so im making the computer minigame from flee the facility

[thorny moon]

that sounds fun

[eager gale]

i shouldve added that as context...

but yeah in flee there is a qte that appears in a fixed time

so thats what im tryna do

[thorny moon]

i do feel like there are a lot of potential repeated event bindings in your code though, through both the InputBegan & Heartbeat events

[eager gale]

repeated event bindings?

[thorny moon]

if you run the quickTimeEvent twice, it could create two inputBegan listeners. so if you were to press E, it would run the function inside uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(input) ... end) twice

it really depends if the player is guaranteed to disconnect the inputConnect before the next quicktime event though

i just dont know if it is guaranteed from the logic in your code <-- but i could be wrong, since i havent read into it a ton

[eager gale]

yes i made sure to disconnect the connect function

both of them as well

either when i get too far from the computer or if i complete the minigame

i still needa write it for when i fail

[thorny moon]

oh alright, thats good then 🙂‍↕️

[thorny moon]

ya that might help 😬

[eager gale]

so basically

i have a function that calls this function

so i dont want to use task.wait since it will halt my other function

i think

[thorny moon]

thats right, a task.wait loop would halt your function
to fix that, you can always use a coroutine, or task.delay

[eager gale]

i see

its just that after i call this function, i want it to run every 10 seconds on its own without halting my other function.

would os.clock() work?

or do i use coroutine or task.delay

[thorny moon]

so, from what i understand you have a function "A" that you want to call this function "quickTimeEvent". e.g.,

local function A()
  ...
  -- run this every ten seconds
  quickTimeEvent()
  -- allow the next lines to play immediately after
  ...
end
``` if you want it to work every ten seconds, ```lua
local function A()
  ...
  task.spawn(function()
    while task.wait(10) do
      quickTimeEvent()
    end
  end)
  --this will run immediately, it will not wait the 10 seconds
  ...
end

[eager gale]

so task.spawn() does this?

[hushed carbon]

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[eager gale]

ive never even heard of that function before lol

the more i know ig

but wouldnt that create more connect function?

[thorny moon]

ya, task.spawn() creates a coroutine that lets multiple processes run at once

[eager gale]

wait nvm

[eager gale]

i see

[oak wing]

local runner
local timer = 0
runner = rs.Heartbeat:Connect(function(dt)
    timer += dt --stack dt
    if timer < 10 then return end
    timer = timer - 10

    --functions
end)

alternative if you want it to disconnect
Edit: change from
timer = 0
to timer = timer - 10

[thorny moon]

this would work, but to avoid accumulating arithmetic errors dont stack dt, just use os.clock()

[eager gale]

ohh so thats how u keep track of dt

[eager gale]

ah

[thorny moon]

and also, to "disconnect" a task-created coroutine just use task.cancel

[eager gale]

ok i was bouta ask that

so i can disconnect after i walk away

thank you so much!

[thorny moon]

np, hope your game goes well 🙂‍↕️

[eager gale]

sorry to notify you again

i shouldve tested this

What do I put in the cancel perimeters?

[thorny moon]

task.spawn returns a coroutine, so put that coroutine into task.cancel(). e.g., ```lua
local c = task.spawn(function()
...
end)
...
task.cancel(c)

[hushed carbon]

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[eager gale]

ok thank you again lol

[icy plinth]

if currenttime - starttime > 10 then

[winged oyster]

are you the guy from valorant

[icy plinth]

what's ur rank diddyblud

[eager gale]

Da hell

I got my name from the meaning of the word

I’ve never touched the word

[winged oyster]

[topaz epoch]

use RunService.Heartbeat its better imo

[still urchin]

Like why not use task.wait honestly

[static jacinth]

true