Code is changing the time of something too slow when it's just right

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#1

Hello devs, I am making a script that puts a “Respawning in 5” above the player’s head when dead.

Here is the script:

local respawnTime = game.Players.RespawnTime

local tag = script.Parent.Dead

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(p)
	p.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(ch)
		ch.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
			local nowTag = tag:Clone()
			local respawnTime2 = respawnTime

			nowTag.Parent = ch.Head
			while wait() do
				if respawnTime2 <= 0 then
					nowTag.LowerText.Text = 0
					break
				else
					wait(0.1)
					respawnTime2 = respawnTime2 - 0.1
					nowTag.LowerText.Text = respawnTime2
				end
			end
		end)
	end)
end)

It goes too slow though but it seems right to me.

Here is the video:

The video wasn’t edited or cut and the respawn time is 5 seconds.

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#2

It’s because of the while wait() do and your wait(0.1) statement. It should work when you make while true do.

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#3

Works but it cuts off at 0.2 seconds. I want to make it exactly perfect

#4

I guess you set the RespawnTime in a ServerScript?

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#5

A classic example of this:

OP didn’t need a wait() in the loop condition because the body of the loop already yields.

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#6

Yeah I did, what changes does it make though?

#7

There is a short delay when the ServerScript changes stuff on your server that the players see. It’s because the players ping isn’t 1.

#8

try using tick() to get the most accurate timing.

local respawnTime = game.Players.RespawnTime
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local tag = script.Parent.Dead

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(p)
	p.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(ch)
		ch.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
			local nowTag = tag:Clone()
			nowTag.Parent = ch.Head
			local respawn = tick() + respawnTime
			local timer
			while (tick() < respawn) do
				timer = respawn - tick()
				timer = math.floor(timer * 10 + 0.5) / 10
				nowTag.LowerText.Text = timer
				runService.Heartbeat:Wait()
			end
			nowTag.LowerText.Text = 0
		end)
	end)
end)
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#11

It works perfectly!

Now onto the last thing, when it says 3, I want it to say 3.0, if it’s on 4, 2, 1, 0 or 5 then I want to add .0 to the end of it. How would I do that?

#12

Change these two lines:

timer = math.floor(timer * 10 + 0.5) / 10
nowTag.LowerText.Text = timer

to this:

timer = math.floor(timer + 0.5)
nowTag.LowerText.Text = timer..".0"

I assumed that since you were subtracting 0.1 from the timer in your original code I thought you wanted to include tenths of seconds. Here I changed it so that it only counts seconds and adds the “.0” at the end for aesthetics.

#13

attempt to perform arithmetic (add) on nil and number

local respawnTime = game.Players.RespawnTime
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")
local tag = script.Parent.Dead

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(p)
	p.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(ch)
		ch.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
			local nowTag = tag:Clone()
			local respawnTime2 = respawnTime

			nowTag.Parent = ch.Head
			local respawn = tick() + respawnTime
			local timer
			while (tick() < respawn) do
				timer = math.floor(timer + 0.5)
				nowTag.LowerText.Text = timer..".0"
				runService.Heartbeat:Wait()
			end
			nowTag.LowerText.Text = "0.0"
		end)
	end)
end)

Errors at line 15 which is timer = math.floor(timer + 0.5)

#14

The body of the while loop should look like this:

			while (tick() < respawn) do
				timer = respawn - tick()
				timer = math.floor(timer + 0.5)
				nowTag.LowerText.Text = timer..".0"
				runService.Heartbeat:Wait()
			end

The error happened because you forgot to copy the line where you set the value for ‘timer’

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#15

Ok now it doesn’t have the .0 at the end. Oh u edited it hold on

#16

Sorry, edited the post just now.

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#17

Thanks that works too but I meant to make the .0 bit like a ms bit not just to make it stay at .0

So like “1.9”… “1.8”… “1.7”…

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#18

Sorry, I didn’t realize what you meant the first time then.

			while (tick() < respawn) do
				timer = respawn - tick()
				timer = math.floor(timer * 10 + 0.5) / 10
				nowTag.LowerText.Text = string.format("%.1f", timer)
				runService.Heartbeat:Wait()
			end

This will count tenths of seconds while always making sure there is a decimal behind the number.

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#19

Thanks so much @Blokav, your so nice. Have a good day and remember to have fun web dev-ing.