How to make wait() only affect a part of script, not whole script?

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#1

Is there an alternative to wait() which only affects part of a script, like a function, not the whole script? I kinda need this wait() but then again it ruins the whole script.
I want it to wait on a certain thing, but have other things run next to it while its waiting, not have to wait until the wait is over for the other things to run

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#2

You’ll be looking for delay(). Wrap that around what ever you want to delay, like this:

delay(1, function() -- 1 is delay time
    -- blah blah
end)
-- other stuff will still run

However, delay is sometimes very unrealiable, so a better version is using coroutines. Like delay, which create a new thread letting the current one still run.

Like so:

local func = coroutine.create(function()
    wait(1)
    -- blah blah
end)
coroutine.resume(func)

This is just one way to do it have a look at the wiki post for more

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#3

Would this delay the entire function?

#4

Anything you put inside the delay will run after the set time you put and everything after the delay will run like the delay doesnt exist for example

delay(1, function() -- 1 second delay
    print("1")
end)
print("2")

2 would print first then one second later 1 will print

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