Any way to play a sound outside of a loop?

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#1

So basically I have some code that detects a fire

while wait(5) do
	for _,Detected in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if Detected:IsA('Fire') then
		s_5:Play()
			wait(5)
			s_1:Play()
			for _,sprinkler in pairs(Sprinklers:GetDescendants()) do
				if sprinkler:IsA('ParticleEmitter') then
					sprinkler.Enabled = true
				end
			end
			s_2:Play()
			s_3:Play()
			s_4:Play()
		end
	end
end

However, it’s in a loop because without the loop, the fire doesn’t get detected. This is annoying though because the sounds get played again after 5 seconds when they are already on loop.

How can I fix this? I just need it to constantly detect fires but only turn the sound and sprinklers on once. I tried break statements, bool values but nothing worked.

Thanks!

#2

You can have the sounds in its own thread, you may use spawn() or coroutines.

The only difference is that spawn has a built-in wait(), however coroutines doesn’t have this.

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