How do I repeat this script?

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#1

I am very weak at scripting and need some help with repeating this script.

wait(0.5)

game.Workspace.Part.Transparency = 1

wait(0.5)

game.Workspace.Part.Transparency = 0

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#2

You could’ve researched before you made a post…

Anyways, there are many things called Loops that will reiterate something over and over. There are 3 loops: while, repeat and for.

while and repeat loops will run always as long as the condition you want is met, while for will just iterate a specific number of times, and even iterate through a whole table.

Infinite loops can be achieved using:

-- while loops continue to run as long as the condition evaluates to true
while true do
    wait() -- without any yielding (waiting), the game will crash
end

OR

-- repeat loops will continue to run as the condition evaluates to false
repeat 
     wait() -- same reason as the wait in the while loop
until false

In your case, you’d do:

while true do
    part.Transparency = 1
    wait(.5)
    part.Transparency = 0
    wait(.5)
end

Or if you want to repeat it a specific amount of times, use a for loop:

-- structure: for [index] = [start], [end], [increment] do

for i = 1, 20 do
    -- do stuff
end
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#3

Thanks :happy2: Didn’t know people had tutorials online about this topic.

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#4

you can make
while true do
wait()
end
into just
while wait() do end

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#5

You can, but you shouldn’t.

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#6

There’s a whole article on the devhub if you’d like to learn more.

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#7

If there’s a way you can do something with events instead of wait(), use the event.

game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
-- do stuff
end)

or

while (true) do
    -- do stuff
    game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Wait()
end
#8

i am confused, trying to do something similar and not really good at scripting just learning rn.
i made this and it is not working, any idea why?

while true do
script.Parent.Transparency=1
wait(1)
script.Parent.transparency=0
end

Edit:

while true do
script.Parent.Transparency = 1
wait(.5)
script.Parent.Transparency = 0
wait(.5)
end

how dose this work but the one i made dosent whats behind that?

#9

the loop probably iterates too quickly for you to see it, try:

while true do
script.Parent.Transparency = 1
wait(1)
script.Parent.Transparency = 0
wait(1)
end
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