Do for loops "rules" carry on?

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#1 
for i, v in script.Parent:GetDescendants() do
	if v:IsA("Folder") or v:IsA("Model") or v:IsA("SpecialMesh") or v:IsA("WeldConstraint") or v:IsA("TouchTransmitter") or v:IsA("Script") or v.Name == "Cloud" then continue end
	print(v.Name)
	for ii, CLOUD_MESH in script.Parent:GetChildren() do
		if CLOUD_MESH:IsA("Folder") or CLOUD_MESH:IsA("Model") or CLOUD_MESH:IsA("SpecialMesh") or CLOUD_MESH:IsA("WeldConstraint") or CLOUD_MESH:IsA("TouchTransmitter") or CLOUD_MESH:IsA("Script") or CLOUD_MESH.Name == "CloudPlatform" then continue end
		print(CLOUD_MESH.Name)
	end
end

I tried to make two separate variables (v and CLOUD_MESH) using two for loops. I tested this code and it only printed v. Does the if statement for the first for loop carry on to the second for loop?

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#2

Yes it should, it will using continue in the 1st for loop will skip the 2nd loop and it will move on to the next itteration.

#3

How do I fix this?? I need two separate variables and I don’t want the first one to carry onto the 2nd loop.

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#4

What do you mean by “the first one [carries] onto the 2nd loop”?

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#5

If the if statements from the 1st loop carry onto to the 2nd loop if statements

#6

The if statements are evaluated each time that the code is reached, if that’s what you mean?

#7

I don’t understand? I’m asking if the if statement from the first loop also apply to the second loop.

#8

Why would it? The first if statement is outside of the second loop.

#9

It’s for some reason not printing CLOUD_MESH and only prints v from the first loop. I don’t know why?

#10

I suspect that the if statement on line 5 of your code sample is excluding all possible values in the second loop. If you remove the if statement, do things output?

#11

Let me try that. (Roblox characters lol)

#12

Bro. I’m so sorry. I just realized…

#13

I put :GetChildren() instead of :GetDescendants() and it filtered out everything.

#14

Wait hold on, I think I just found something weird when I ran finished my code wth?

#15

What do you mean?

#16

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How did this error??

#17

When using task.spawn, you put the function as the first argument then any parameters after it, so you should do something like this:

task.spawn(CLOUD_COLOR_TOGGLE, CLOUD_MESH)
task.spawn(STRIKE_PLAYER, hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"), hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Head"), v)
#18

Dang, I didn’t know that? I thought you put the parameters inside of the function.

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Okay, something is a bit wrong? Whenever I step on a cloud it’s supposed to change that cloud’s color but instead it changes the certain cloud’s color (in the screenshot)

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#20

Both of the following are same:

for i = 1, 16 do
  if i % 2 == 0 then
    continue
  end
  for j = 1, 32 do
    print(i, j)
  end
end

for i = 1, 16 do
  if not (i % 2 == 0) then
    for j = 1, 32 do
      print(i, j)
    end
  end
end

This applies in just about every other language.

Excluding old Lua 5.1, where continue is not a keyword.

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