I have a for loop that moves objects to a table of positions and once that is finished i want to change each object to another position one by one. Is there a way I can delay the second bit until the first bit finished? Not using task.wait, task.delay, or task.defer … unless those would be a good idea to accomplish this. But I’m wondering if anyone has any other suggestions.
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Maybe create an event that fires once all the positions from the first bit are done being set
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what about the loops being in the same function?
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Just use task.delay where the first parameter is the tween time for the parts in the first group
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Maybe a bit of code would help. If you have a for loop moving things why couldn’t you just start the second part when that for loop has completed?
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not tweening. just changing cframe. but in lua i suppose the loop will have to finish before the next loop can run? so maybe it doesn’t matter and/ or can just use task.wait
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that’s what i’m doing essentially but i am looking for a way to “make sure” it’s finished before proceeding. just in case.
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If you’re changing the cframe it’s the same idea, you should have a variable for how long it takes to complete so just use that
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You’ll want to insert a delay between the two loops otherwise they’re just going to appear to happen instantly.
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changing multiple cframe with loop.
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so you mean a task.wait and i’m wondering about alternatives
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Your loop should still have a timeout number which is the one you want to be using
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Why do you want an alternative to task.wait()?
- You want to move the items from Position A to Position B
- You need some period of time for players to observe the items in position B.
- Then you want to move them to Position C
You need a task.wait() to handle step #2, otherwise it’ll just appear like A was moved to C.
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so right now i’m just using a repeat wait until all the objects have been moved … then might put in a little wait after which i think will correspond with the camera tween
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i’m exploring alternatives outside of task.wait just to see what other methods exist. but i haven’t found any so far
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What do you mean “until all objects have been moved” – you’re not using a tween you said, you’re just setting the CFrame (:PivotTo() hopefully) directly aren’t you?
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yeah. the objects i’m moving i’m putting in a table while they are where they are. so i’m checking to see if the objects in the table are all the objects. then i will probably do a task.wait() after that or in my repeat i’ll have it to also check a bool value to let know that it should continue. because i want a delay as well as checking when all the objects are where they are supposed to be.
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It is hard to visualise without some code. I know how I would do this but that won’t help you because it probably wont look anything like your code. If you show the code I might be able to refactor it to make it do what you want.
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Maybe try using a promise? Still not sure what the question really is tbh
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this is just contemplating logic. not debugging or wanting to refactor existing code. but i’ve just ended up using a repeat loop until all objects are moved then a wait for delay until next loop starts.
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