How do I stop this from repeating?

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

Hello! I made this terrain generation system but I’m having this issue where when I’m changing biomes in the terrain, it prints this twice, causing a noticable notch/variation in the terrain…

10:48:12.219  Change biomes!  -  Server - Terrain:108
  10:48:12.219  Desert  -  Server - Terrain:111
  10:48:12.300  Change biomes!  -  Server - Terrain:108
  10:48:12.300  Mountains  -  Server - Terrain:111

Here’s the code, yes I tried doing a debounce but it doesn’t work.

	local debounce = true
			if x % BiomeSize == 0 and z % BiomeSize == 0 then -- In this example it will pause after each 100 loops
				spawn(function()
					if debounce == true then
						debounce = false
						print("Change biomes!")
						PrintScaleFactor = true
						currentBiome = Biomes[math.random(1, #Biomes)]
						print(currentBiome)
						wait(5)
						ScaleFactor = false
						debounce = true
					end
				end)
			end

[azqjanna]

What is the reason for using spawn? This will complicate any analysis of your code because it has multiple threads.

[2112Jay]

local x = true
local ScaleFactor = true
local PrintScaleFactor = false
local Biomes = {"aaa", "bbb", "ccc"}
local currentBiome = "abc"

------
local debounce = true
if x then -- In this example it will pause after each 100 loops
	spawn(function()
		if debounce == true then
			debounce = false
			print("Change biomes!")
			PrintScaleFactor = true
			currentBiome = Biomes[math.random(1, #Biomes)]
			print(currentBiome)
			wait(5)
			ScaleFactor = false
			debounce = true
		end
	end)
end

Only prints once … Somehow, you’re calling this more than once while x is still true.
The spawn(function() took the following wait() out of consideration to the rest of the program also.

if debounce == true then debounce = false
	if x then -- In this example it will pause after each 100 loops
		spawn(function()
			print("Change biomes!")
			PrintScaleFactor = true
			currentBiome = Biomes[math.random(1, #Biomes)]
			print(currentBiome)
			wait(5)
			ScaleFactor = false
			debounce = true
		end)
	end
end

Maybe …depends on how this is called in the script.

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

turns out i need to put debounce at the beginning of the script, otherwise it just creates a new debounce every loop.

[lukethebestpug (pugen)]

i used spawn because i wanted to delay the debounce from turning back on without having to worry about delaying the rest of the thread.