I’m trying to add a cooldown to my looting system, but I’m not sure if roblox’s time is accurate to real life. (i.e: one second in roblox = 1 second in real life). If not, is there some way to convert it?
changed: maybe yes? or not?? actually my roblox wait() is more faster
It is. wait(1) will wait approximately 1 second in real life. It’ll work just fine for your cooldown.
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It is accurate, but not as accurate as using task.wait(1) , it updates much faster then wait(1) and now there really isn’t any reason you should be using wait(1) over task.wait(1).
You can read more on it here:
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task.wait(1) should be as close to 1 second as you can possibly get. Trying to get it any more accurate is just going to be a waste of effort and will probably make your code more unoptimised.
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According to Roblox Globals, wait “yields the current thread until the specified amount of seconds has elapsed”. So yes, the number of seconds yielded correlates to real-life time.
P.S. wait was superseded by task.wait, which, on average, resumes 2x faster than wait.
task.wait() is way faster than wait()
I would probably not do any wait, Instead I would do a tick() debounce as this will be most accurate
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task.wait(1)
Will wait 1 second and then on the next heartbeat resume your code
So if the heartbeat is running at 60 FPS
Then there is a chance that task.wait will wait
1.0166666 seconds so it’s very close to 1 second in real life
If you want to learn more this video will help
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