Tweening Multiple Groups that Delete Themselves

[spinmaster243]

I have scripted a cloud spawner that clones clouds from a group of 4 cloud models and positions them in random spots on one side of the map and then activates a script inside the cloned cloud that tweens it to the other side of the map and then deletes itself.

Is there a more efficient way to do this? Specifically I am wondering if there is a way to tween multiple models that delete themselves upon completion of the tween without having a separate script in each model that tweens and deletes them.

My first thought was to tween them after cloning and positioning them in the same repeating function but I do not know how to delete them from there. The function that clones, positions, and tweens the clouds has to repeat every 5 seconds and having another function inside it that waits for the tween to complete and then destroys the Cloud gets in the way of this.

[ScriptingShroom (Shr0_0m)]

use task.spawn for this. here’s an example script:

task.spawn(function()
	task.wait(3)
end)

print("abc")

task.spawn creates a new thread so abc prints right away

[Candy_Project]

Use Tween.Completed:Wait() and destroy.

[hkep]

Tween.Completed:Once(function() cloud:Destroy() end)

or

task.delay(Tween.TweenInfo.Time, cloud.Destroy, cloud)

or

local Debris = game:GetService("Debris")


Debris:AddItem(cloud, Tween.TweenInfo.Time)

see Debris

Or you could just wrap your code with task.spawn for each cloud.

task.spawn(function()
  -- clone/position cloud
  -- tween cloud
  -- wait seconds or tween completion
  -- delete cloud
end)

[spinmaster243]

Thank you! I ended up using task.delay as it was the easiest method to implement.