How would i make this non-looped but every 5 seconds?

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#1

How would i make this play every 5 seconds instead of looped?

–i’m new to scripting lol

local s = Instance.new("Sound")

s.Name = "Sound"

s.SoundId = "rbxassetid://3475602086"

s.Volume = 1

s.Looped = false

s.archivable = false

s.Parent = game.Workspace

wait(5)

s.Looped = true

s:play()
#2

Wrap the s:play() in a while loop like this

while true do
    s:play()
    wait(5)
    if (Condition) then
        break
    end
end
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#3

Hey there, SelectedArctic!

Looping using while or for loops isn’t a very good practice for this kind of stuff.
Instead we should use events.

I’ll put in a variable so at some point when it meets the condition it will stop itself, I’ll let you configure that, however.

Here is what we are after:

local stopPlaying = false

local s = Instance.new("Sound")

s.Name = "Sound"

s.SoundId = "rbxassetid://3475602086"

s.Volume = 1

s.Looped = false

s.archivable = false

s.Parent = game.Workspace

s.Stopped:connect(function()
     if stopPlaying == false
     s:Play()
    end
end)

Hope this works for you!

Here is my reference for sound events, https://robloxapi.github.io/ref/class/Sound.html
(Reason for Github Link is being Roblox API pages are currently down)

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#4

Thanks to you both figured it out! :smiley:

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#5

wait so right now its playing out in the entire place so how would i make it play only from that part?
this is what i got lol

local script.Parent.Workspace.Head = s.Name = "sound"

local s = Instance.new("Sound")

s.Name = "Sound"
s.SoundId = "rbxassetid://3475603036"
s.Volume = 0.5
s.Looped = false
s.archivable = true

s.Parent = game.Workspace


while true do
    s:play()
    wait(7)
end
#6

Parent the sound to a part to have it come from a specific location.

Also, mark on of the above posts as a solution so people know the answer to your question.

#7

like this?

local script.Workspace.Parent.Head -- the part thats making the sound

i am new to scripting so. lol

#8

yea, just set sound.Parent to whatever it’s supposed to come from

#9

so local script.sound.Parent.Head

#10

that is not proper lua syntax. When using local you are calling a variable. A variable must have a name, so doing script.sound.Parent.Head won’t make a variable, and instead would call an error.