Do RunServices automatically disconnect?

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#1

I’m trying to familiarise myself more with coding, hence this question.

I have a Spaceship flight system where upon entering the Pilot Seat, the Ships Ownership is set to the Pilot and a Gui is inserted into the Player - allowing the Ship to be piloted via client.

This uses RunServices to change the Camera focus to the Starship, although upon exiting the seat - This GUI is destroyed.

General query, but is the Function destroyed when the GUI is as at that times its not in use?

#2

The event itself should not be disconnected unless the Lua thread is garbage collected. So it depends on if you have weak references or not.

I wouldn’t rely on this and you should be cleaning up your connections for sanity.

local rs: (RunService) = game:GetService("RunService")
local connection: (RBXScriptSignal) = rs.RenderStepped:Connect(function(dt: (number))

end)

wait(1)
connection:Disconnect()
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#3

How would I rig it to disconnect if the Player is no longer on the Pilot Seat, needing it to be Disconnected?

#4

No it is not destroyed, you have to Disconnect it as it says @MrNicNac
Only I’m not a fan of its code, even if it works fine so this is a another exemple

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
function onStep()
print("New step !")
end

local idkForName = RunService.Stepped:Connect(onStep) -- Connect the service to the function onStep
wait(5)
idkForName:Disconnect() -- Disconnect the service

Well, it depends on what’s going on in the code. You can detect if the player have leaving the seat with VehicleSeat/Occupant

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