How to use coroutine?

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#1

Hello, I am making a system where player gets anchored and after a while get un anchored. I don’t want to use wait as I want the script to keep going. And as far as I know coroutine would be the solution but idk how to use it.

	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
		if v.IsInRound.Value == true then
			local character = v.Character or v.CharacterAdded:Wait()
			character:WaitForChild("Torso").Anchored = true
			coroutine.create(function()
				wait(5)
				character:WaitForChild("Torso").Anchored = false
			end)
		end
	end

Here’s my script snippet

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#2

You created a coroutine thread, but didn’t started it’s execution. Add coroutine.resume before coroutine.create, like this:

coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
				wait(5)
				character:WaitForChild("Torso").Anchored = false
			end))

or you could just use something like task.spawn() as an alternative, which automatically adds the thread on execution list after you call it

#3

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok thanks can you tell me how to use task.spawn just in case? thanks

#4

It’s basically the same as coroutine.resume but also accepts a standalone function in case you haven’t created a thread, basically doing both coroutine.create and coroutine.resume in one go through task scheduler system

#5

ah i see thank you. bye have a good day

#6

You can also create a coroutine and run it via:

coroutine.wrap(function()
    -- code here
end)() -- notice the "()", thats how we are running this coroutine

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local coro = coroutine.wrap(function()
    print("i have a function")
end)

coro()

-- >> i have a function

This is basically a coroutine with a function which can be ran like a function.

Coroutine API documentation: coroutine | Roblox Creator Documentation