"while true do" isn't looping

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#1

I’m currently working on a ModuleScript that runs a game loop for some game I’m working on. The function is supposed to start the game loop and I want to loop a section of code for every time the player presses an input. It works once but then stops for some reason. Am I doing the loop wrong?

Here is the script so far:

local gameLoop = {}

local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local inputModule = require(script.Parent.Input)

function gameLoop.run()
	local newInput = inputModule.new()
	local regInput = newInput.regInput
	--This "while true do" is what I want to cycle for every input.
	while true do
		local inputBegan = userInputService.InputBegan
		
		local input, gameProcessed = inputBegan:Wait()
		
		if gameProcessed then 
			continue
		end
		
		if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
			break
		end
		
		inputBegan:Connect(function(key)
			regInput(key)
		end)
	end
end

return gameLoop

Thanks!

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#2

try wrapping it in a task.spawn like this:

task.spawn(function()
    --while loop here
end)
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#4

Put some type of print statement in there and some sort of ‘wait’ to make sure its actually even looping once

#5

I did, I figured out the looping part by simply putting the part that waits into a separate function.

local gameLoop = {}

local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local inputModule = require(script.Parent.Input)

function gameLoop.run()
	local newInput = inputModule.new()
	local regInput = newInput.regInput
	
	while true do
		local inputBegan = userInputService.InputBegan
		
		waitI(inputBegan)
		
		inputBegan:Connect(function(key)
			print("a")
			regInput(key)
		end)
	end
end

function waitI(source)
	while true do
		local input, gameProcessed = source:Wait()
		if gameProcessed then 
			continue
		end
		if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.Keyboard then
			break
		end
	end
end

return gameLoop

But now I am having an issue that I am trying to figure out where I need to press an input once before it prints anything. So any help surrounding that would be great.

#6

Are you calling the function from the local side? UIS can only be called from the local side.

#7

Yes I am, I fortunately don’t really have to worry about much surrounding that considering this is a completely client sided game. And I did get this problem figured out, but any ideas you have regarding my previous post on here would help me greatly.

#8

Nevermind, I got this all figured out. Thank you all for your time.

#9

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