Help with this function

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#1

So i have been recently going to toolbox and just randomly playing around and i saw quite a lot of functions that is something like

spawn(function()

end)

can someone pls explain it to me what is that also im begginer so pls make it simple when explaining

#2

spawn is just like running another script in one script, so if you have a infinite while loop in that function, everything below will still run because it is seperated

#3

can you give an example on how to use it?

#4

spawn is basically a way to create a new script whilst keeping it in all 1 script

Say I have this:

while true do
    wait(1)
    print("1")
end

while true do
    wait(1)
    print("2")
end

Now here’s the thing: Only the first loop will start but the second one won’t :thinking: Why is that? Well, since both are while true do loops the script will keep running that first loop infinitely & won’t continue the second

Now here’s the cool part, we can use spawn to basically create a new entire like-script (Or thread) inside that same script while keeping our first loop running

local function Loop1()
    while true do
        wait(1)
        print("1")
    end
end

spawn(Loop1) --We want to call this function here 

while true do
    wait(1)
    print("2")
end

So now, we have 2 loops running at the same time!

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#5

thx now i understand it you explain it so perfectly