How To Make Part Movement Delayed

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Hi so I’m testing out some things that parts have and I found getClosestPointOnSurface and thought I would try it. It’s good and it works but I just want the movement of the red part to be delayed by 0.25 seconds.

Code:

local RunService = game.findService(game, "RunService")
local Players = game.findService(game, "Players")
local Workspace = game.findService(game, "Workspace")
local TweenService = game.findService(game, "TweenService")

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Part = script.Parent

while true do
	while Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded.wait(Player.CharacterAdded) do
		Workspace.Moving.Position = Part.getClosestPointOnSurface(Part, Player.Character.getPivot(Player.Character).Position)
		RunService.RenderStepped.wait(RunService.RenderStepped)
	end
end
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Just add task.wait(0.25) in the while loop

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What is this? How does the code work?

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You’ll probably need to swap out the while loop for a runservice connection with a wait, like this:

local RunService = game.findService(game, "RunService")
local Players = game.findService(game, "Players")
local Workspace = game.findService(game, "Workspace")
local TweenService = game.findService(game, "TweenService")

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Part = script.Parent

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	if Player.Character then
		local Position = Part.getClosestPointOnSurface(Part, Player.Character.getPivot(Player.Character).Position)
		task.wait(0.25)
		Workspace.Moving.Position = Position
	end
end)

You can also swap Heartbeat for RenderStepped, but that’s up to you

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It waits until the next frame is made

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What is the difference between Heartbeat.wait(RunService.Heartbeat) and RenderStepped.wait(RunService.RenderStepped)

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I just realized you just didn’t use the colon notation but instead opted to use the dot notation. Very uncanny sight to see im ngl… What do you gain from this?

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What is colon used for in scripting? I have never heard of it… I see people using it but isn’t that advanced? I’m new

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This isn’t the first time people have talked about my scripting like that. People also have mentioned that I don’t capitalize the first word in the things but use lowercase even though most people capitalize it

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This kinda works but sometimes the part teleports from one place to another. I want it to move smoothly

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could you send a video? it works for me. If by “teleport” you mean the fact that the part jitters ever so slightly, that will be because of slight inaccuracy of task.wait() function. There may be a workaround with Tweening or something, i’ll look into it.

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I was actual able to get the solution by switching it to RunService.RenderStepped.wait(RunService.RenderStepped)

I just modified your idea.

Thanks for helping

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Alright no worries :slight_smile: happy to help

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same thing u’re doing but with one less argument

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Yes just like OOP and the manual passing of self like game.findService(game, className) when your not using it as a method.

This explanation really helped me out.

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