Make bar regenerate after 5 seconds

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#1

How exactly would I make a bar that regenerates after 5 seconds? It only waits 5 seconds once and regenerates and doesn’t wait another 5 seconds to regenerate?
The bar sizes down or up based on the number value inside it.

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#2

I’m just using mana as a stand-in, change it to whatever suits your need

local RegenRate = 10 -- change this to whatever you want it to regen per second
local WaitTime = 5 -- replace 5 with however you want to wait to regen
local ManaValue = 0
local MaxMana = 100
local LastDecrease = time()
Runservice.Heartbeat:Connect(function(DT)
    if time() - LastDecrease > WaitTime and ManaValue ~= MaxMana then
        ManaValue = math.clamp(ManaValue + RegenRate*DT,0,MaxMana)
        print("Mana is now at "..ManaValue)
    end
end)

Whenever you decrease your mana like when you cast a spell, set LastDecrease to time()
I didn’t test this so there may be errors but this is set up like how you should set yours up

#3

What if I wanted to use a server script?

Runservice.Heartbeat:Connect(function(DT)

Heartbeat isn’t useable on the server.

#4

If you want it to regenerate after 5 seconds, then you could use a while wait(5) do loop, after that you can tween or whatever you do.

#5

I want it to continuously regenerate 5 until it’s 100 after waiting 5 seconds only once.

#6

So if I am hearing this correctly, what you could do it make a tween last 5 seconds and tween it to the max position of your frame. The 5 seconds will only run once, and if you ever want to use it again, simply call the tween with tween:Play()

#7

Hey Ive got it to work here is code:

local ts = game:GetService("TweenService")

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local char = plr.Character

local Humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local tween = ts:Create(script.Parent.Frame.Frame, TweenInfo.new(1, Enum.EasingStyle.Quint, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut), {Size = UDim2.fromScale(0.986, 1)})


Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
	local tween2 = ts:Create(script.Parent.Frame.Frame, TweenInfo.new(1, Enum.EasingStyle.Quint, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut), {Size = UDim2.fromScale(0.986, Humanoid.Health/Humanoid.MaxHealth)})
	
	tween2:Play()
	task.wait(5)
	tween:Play()
end)
#8

I don’t want a tween to tween the bar’s size or position I have a bar that updates based on a number value’s value, I want to wait 5 seconds (only one time) and then constantly update the number value’s value until it’s 100. (Sorry for being so unclear.)

#9

Can you show examples of this “bar”

#10

The bar is not important, I just want a script that regenerates the value of a number value to wait 5 seconds then continously add 1 until the value is 100.

#11 
wait(5)

for i = 1, 100 do
	(Whatever you value is).Value += 1
end

This is probably the best way I can think of since your not really explaining it well, or showing any ui

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#12

Does the loop stop after it reaches 100?

#13

Of course it does! for i = 1, 100 loops through 1 to 100.

Now you can change the 1 to whatever you want to fit your needs.

#14

So for example you can do

for i = Value, 100 do

this will start at the value then go to 100!

#15

Although you already marked this as solved, Heartbeat is useable on the server.