In my game, I want a loading screen that will repeat “Loading Game” and add a period “.” every .4 seconds. I’ve looked on the API but I can’t seem to find a way to multiply this period. I feel like if I use if statements in such a way like switch:case in other coding languages, the script will run too inefficiently.
Tl;DR - I want to “multiply” a string: e.g. “.” * 3 = “…”
Just a little fun fact, this won’t work in Lua, but Python actually lets you multiply strings by a number. This is how you repeat strings, i.e. "hey" * 3 == "heyheyhey".
To repeat strings in Lua, use string.rep. So your code might look like this.
for i = 1, 3 do
label.Text = "Loading" .. string.rep(".", i)
wait(n)
end
alternatively (“.”):rep(x) and also this to do it based on time
("."):rep(math.floor(timeElapsed * speed) % amount)
where timeElapsed is usually tick() - start where start is the starting tick
speed is a multiplier for how fast
and amount makes it count from 0 to amount - 1 before resetting.
I usually use this instead for my loading screens since i update the majority of the gui constantly (usually every frame) to move things around and manipulate progress bars.
Should keep in sync with time too
Thanks, this definitely seems more optimized. I’ll use this in my loading screen.