Help With Gui Script

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#1

Hello! I can’t figure out why it only repeats once, and only spawns the “target” part. My brain might just not be working but I’m not sure. This is in a local script for the gui. Thanks!

local colors = {"Red", "Pink", "Yellow", "Blue", "Green", "Orange"}
local target = {}
local enemys = 5

local function spawnEnemy()

    local selecttarget = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
    table.insert(target, 1, selecttarget)
    
    print(target)

    for i = 1, enemys do
        local enemySpawn = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
        if table.find(target, enemySpawn) then
            local enemySpawned = script.Parent.Parent.Targets:FindFirstChild(enemySpawn):Clone()
            enemySpawned.Parent = script.Parent.PlayingArea
            local posX = math.random(0.876, 0)
            local posY = math.random(0.89, 0)
            enemySpawned.Position = UDim2.new(posX, 0, posY, 0)
        else
            local enemySpawned = script.Parent.Parent.Targets:FindFirstChild(enemySpawn):Clone()
            enemySpawned.Parent = script.Parent.PlayingArea
            local posX = math.random(0.876, 0)
            local posY = math.random(0.89, 0)
            enemySpawned.Position = UDim2.new(posX, 0, posY, 0)
        end
    end

end

wait(10)

spawnEnemy()
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#2

You only ever call the function named “spawnEnemy” once. To call it multiple times you could use the following.

local colors = {"Red", "Pink", "Yellow", "Blue", "Green", "Orange"}
local target = {}
local enemys = 5

local function spawnEnemy()
	local selecttarget = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
	table.insert(target, 1, selecttarget)

	print(target)

	for i = 1, enemys do
		local enemySpawn = colors[math.random(1, #colors)]
		if table.find(target, enemySpawn) then
			local enemySpawned = script.Parent.Parent.Targets:FindFirstChild(enemySpawn):Clone()
			enemySpawned.Parent = script.Parent.PlayingArea
			local posX = math.random(0.876, 0)
			local posY = math.random(0.89, 0)
			enemySpawned.Position = UDim2.new(posX, 0, posY, 0)
		else
			local enemySpawned = script.Parent.Parent.Targets:FindFirstChild(enemySpawn):Clone()
			enemySpawned.Parent = script.Parent.PlayingArea
			local posX = math.random(0.876, 0)
			local posY = math.random(0.89, 0)
			enemySpawned.Position = UDim2.new(posX, 0, posY, 0)
		end
	end

end

while wait(10) do
	spawnEnemy()
end

This will call the function every 10 seconds, assuming that is how frequently you want the function to be ran.

#3

Not sure if this is what I need, I need the top to repeat however many times the enemy = when its called.

#4 
table.insert(target, 1, selecttarget)

You’re inserting an entry to the same table index each time, which means that entry which was previously located at that index is overridden, is this intentional?