How to pause a script during wait(x)

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#1

heyo
i want to make a system where a player does an action that temporarily pauses everything around them, and each player has a moveset that is structured something like this:

local function action()
    debounce = true
    changeSpeed()
    doAnimation()
    wait(0.5) ~~this is important because the pause action could happen during this moment
    changeSpeed()
    debounce = false
end

it’s a somewhat crude representation but I would like to know if there’s a way you can pause a script during its wait(x) function and resume the script after the paused event. If not I would also like to know some alternatives to wait(x)

#2

You can try to listen for a specific event through Event:Wait(), which yields the code until fired.

#3

sorry, i wasn’t completely specific in my post
i don’t need the code below the wait() to fire when the pause event happens, i only want to find out if the script can be paused during wait() and resume its wait countdown after

#4

You can’t really yield anything in between, not even disabling the script works. Try a different approach as I have previously mentioned. It is simply technically not possible.

#5

One workaround might be using wait differently, such as below:

--instead of just doing
wait(0.5)
--try this?
local pause = false -- somewhere else, can be set to true or false

local function action()
     debounce = true
     changeSpeed()
     doAnimation()
     local timer = 0.5
     while timer > 0 do
          local deltaTime = wait()
          if not pause then
               timer -= deltaTime
          end
     end
     changeSpeed()
     debounce = false
end

The while loop will only update the timer when pause is false, otherwise it’ll wait and not do anything

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#6

this seems like a great workaround! ill try this out and ill get back to you