How would i reference the values in a: for i,v in pairs() Loop?

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#1
  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I am creating a Loading Screen where the loading label would show whats its loading, I use the table to pair up strings i will later concatenate.
local AssetsToLoad = {
	
	workspace == "Objects",
	game.Lighting == "Lighting",
	game.ReplicatedStorage == "Cache",
	game.ReplicatedFirst == "Cache",
	game.ServerStorage == "Server Storage",
	game.ServerScriptService == "Server Scripts",
	game.SoundService == "Sounds",
	game.StarterGui == "User Interfaces",
	game.StarterPack == "Tools",
	game.StarterPlayer == "Starter Player Scripts",
	game.Chat == "Communications",
	game.Players == "Communications"
}
#2

I also feel like i approached this in such a wrong way

#3

i would be workspace, game.Lighting etc as you loop through the table
v would be “Objects”, “Lighting” etc as you loop through the table
I may have misunderstood your question so please rephrase if you did.

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#4

Thats what i initially thought as well but: I is a number number and v is false I feel like i set up the table wrong

#5

There’s a ton of threads on this already. I don’t specialise in this so I can’t help. Maybe start from here How to make a real assets loading bar? - #11 by russkiychelik02

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#6

Ive read that multiple times already and what they are doing is not the same as what I am doing, I am trying to make a Loading Label show what the game is loading. For Example: Loading StarterGui, or Loading Workspace

#7

This doesn’t work because workspace == "Objects" is a boolean, meaning it would be AssetsToLoad[1] -- this would be your workspace boolean, if you remove that one = then it should work like so:

local AssetsToLoad = {
	
	workspace = "Objects",
	game.Lighting = "Lighting",
	game.ReplicatedStorage = "Cache",
	game.ReplicatedFirst = "Cache",
	game.ServerStorage = "Server Storage",
	game.ServerScriptService = "Server Scripts",
	game.SoundService = "Sounds",
	game.StarterGui = "User Interfaces",
	game.StarterPack = "Tools",
	game.StarterPlayer = "Starter Player Scripts",
	game.Chat = "Communications",
	game.Players = "Communications"
}
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#8

I also tried this but it gave me syntax error underlines

#9

Maybe a little formatting may do the trick:

local AssetsToLoad = {
	
	workspace = "Objects",
	Lighting = "Lighting",
	ReplicatedStorage = "Cache",
	ReplicatedFirst = "Cache",
	ServerStorage = "Server Storage",
	ServerScriptService = "Server Scripts",
	SoundService = "Sounds",
	StarterGui = "User Interfaces",
	StarterPack = "Tools",
	StarterPlayer = "Starter Player Scripts",
	Chat = "Communications",
	Players = "Communications"
}

game.someService won’t work if you want to make a table you make it with variables that haven’t been referenced or mentioned.

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#10

Forgot to respond back but i just did this:

local AssetsToLoad = {

	['Workspace'] = "Objects",
	['Lighting'] = "Lighting",
	['ReplicatedStorage'] = "Cache",
	['ReplicatedFirst'] = "Cache",
	['ServerStorage'] = "Server Storage",
	['ServerScriptService'] = "Server Scripts",
	['SoundService'] = "Sounds",
	['StarterGui'] = "User Interfaces",
	['StarterPack'] = "Tools",
	['StarterPlayer'] = "Starter Player Scripts",
	['Chat'] = "Communications",
	['Players'] = "Communications"
}

for i, v in pairs(AssetsToLoad) do
	LoadingLabel.Text = "Loading "..v
	ContentProvider:PreloadAsync(game:FindFirstChild(i):GetChildren())
	wait(1)
end

Your formatting mightve worked too but I didnt look back thanks though!

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#11

It also works if you delete the quotation marks altogether in the dictionary.

local AssetsToLoad = {
    Workspace = "Objects",
    Lighting = "Lighting",
    ReplicatedStorage = "Cache",
    ...
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