A way to bypass the 200 variable limit

[C_CROAXER (CROAXE_R)]

How do I bypass the limit? Pretty straight foward question, but maybe theres an alternative that anyone knows?

[POOPENGUIN]

as far as i know, you cant, but you can still use global variables instead

[C_CROAXER (CROAXE_R)]

Like _G? Would that work instead?

[POOPENGUIN]

no, you just have to not put ‘local’ when defining the variable

like this:

integer = 1

[C_CROAXER (CROAXE_R)]

but what if it was something like this?

local Glow = Instance.new("UnionOperation")

[dthecoolest]

@C_CROAXER

Like _G?

This is basically a table based approach.

Is this considered bad practice? (200 variable limit workaround)

Is using a table to work around the 200 variable limit, considered bad practice for future code? Example: local var = {} var.Player = game.Player.LocalPlayer var.Mouse = var.Player:GetMouse() Then just keep assigning new variables to the table var as you make progress to your code, would this then be considered bad practice? Or is there a better way for exactly this?

or what @POOPENGUIN is talking about

@BenSBk

This is identical to using global variables. Doing this is redundant when you can just do:

Player = game.Player.LocalPlayer
Mouse = Player:GetMouse()

Global variables are stored in a regular table known as an environment.

Never had this issue, using modules help. How to use modules is another story the first people start with is usually OOP.

[POOPENGUIN]

you could just remove the ‘local’.

this should work just fine:
Glow = Instance.new(“UnionOperation”)

although, just fyi, if you define another function in your script, you should be able to use more local variables within that function.

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

If you need more than 200 variables, chances are you’re doing something wrong. To further this, defining variables without local in luau is not advised and it’s also less efficient than a local variable. You shouldn’t have all game logic in a single script. I’ve been on roblox for 11 years and I didn’t even know there was a limit until you posted this.

[Forummer]

Upcoming change to (correctly) limit the local count to 200

This is highlighted in release notes for 428 but it’s worth a separate announcement. TL;DR: Make sure your functions with hundreds of local variables still work in Studio, before they break in live games! A bug report ("Out of registers when trying to allocate 4 registers: exceeded limit 255" What does it mean?) highlighted a small issue in Luau compiler that existed since we launched Luau last year - instead of enforcing the limit of 200 locals, the compiler enforced the limit of 255 locals. …

You can still contain everything within a single script and not exceed the two hundred local environment limit, the thread poster’s code base must be employing some really bad practices, i.e; declaring variables for literals where not necessary.

local one = "1"
local two = "2"
local three = "3"

[Alpha_Guardians]

Is there a reason you can’t use a do block?

[RensUnnecessaryAlt]

You could use dictionaries. Don’t use global variables. Also, please don’t tell me you actually somehow reached the limit.