Why are these tables kind of 'replacing' eachother?

[ew_iscool (professional)]

so i’ve been trying to organize a way to spawn enemies through tables on a modulescript, and, to make my life easier, i also created this function that can repeat through a bunch of enemies at once, throw them into a table, and then i can just unpack them to add 40 in 1 line of code. however, when i have multiple of these functions in 1 wave, the ones after replace the ones before them.
how can i make both functions run without overlapping and covering their predecessors

MODULESCRIPT:

function Repeat(Enemy,amount,Table)
	local repeats = 0
	repeat
		table.insert(Table,Enemy)
		repeats += 1
	until
	repeats == amount
	return Table
end

local Waves = {
	["Wave 1"] = {
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Noob,40,{})),
	},
	["Wave 2"] = {
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Noob,20,{})),
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Sworder,20,{})),
	},
	["Wave 3"] = {
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Noob,50,{})),
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Sworder,30,{})),
	},
	["Wave 4"] = {
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Booster,10,{})),
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Noob,30,{})),
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Sworder,15,{})),
	},
	["Wave 5"] = {
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Tanker,5,{})),
		table.unpack(Repeat(game.ServerStorage.Noob,30,{})),
	},
}


return Waves

printed message of wave 2:

(1 noob then 20 sworders)

[D4_rrk (D4rk)]

You might find the solution to your problem with the use of the function task.spawn. It creates a separate thread meaning you can run multiple functions at once.

task | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[ew_iscool (professional)]

what do you mean by this, and how would i even integrate this?

[Dan_E56 (Dan)]

You are better off using a for loop to merge multiple tables

Here’s the explanation why unpack won’t work:

What does unpack() do and why do I get different results?

In Lua, functions can return multiple values. They are not packed into one big data structure, unlike Python for example. def foo(): return "a", "b", "c" tpl = foo() print(tpl) # ('a', 'b', 'c') Python implicitly packs the results into 1 big tuple. A tuple in Python is an immutable list. In Lua however this is different. Tables are actually the only data structure in Lua. Multiple returns are not implicitly packed into a table. In your case, since unpack returns multiple things, your v…

Here’s one solution I found:

Combine Tables Together

[image] You don’t need to make this a module, you can reduce the code by returning a function instead: return function(...: {any}) local newTable = {} for _, v in ipairs({...}) do -- Note: Combining tables combines the tables in order for i, x in ipairs(v) do table.insert(newTable, x) end end return newTable end You should also mention this combines arrays only, as tables in Lua can refer to both arrays and dictionaries.

[Content_Corrupted019 (StifledSaucepan)]

You can organize enemy spawns without using all this table magic. Set a “Count” variable that tells you how many of a specific enemy type to spawn.

local Waves = {
	["Wave 1"] = {
		{
			Type = "Noob",
			Count = 40,
		}
	},
	["Wave 2"] = {
		{
			Type = "Noob",
			Count = 40,
		},
		
		{
			Type = "Sworder",
			Count = 40,
		},
	},
}

Then, when you’re spawning the enemies:

-- This is for spawning enemies for one wave
-- So waveStructure should be Waves["Wave 2"], for example
for i, enemySpawnBlock in waveStructure do
	local enemyType = enemySpawnBlock.Type
	
	local enemyModel = ServerStorage[enemyType]
	
	for j = 1, enemySpawnBlock.Count do
        -- However you spawn enemies here
		Spawn(...)
	end
end

[smokenator11 (smoke)]

why is nobody optimizing this?

local Waves = {
	["Wave 1"] = {
		table.create(40, game.ServerStorage.Noob),
	},
	["Wave 2"] = {
		table.create(20, game.ServerStorage.Noob),
		table.create(20, game.ServerStorage.Sworder),
	},
	["Wave 3"] = {
		table.create(50, game.ServerStorage.Noob),
		table.create(30, game.ServerStorage.Sworder),
	},
	["Wave 4"] = {
		table.create(10, game.ServerStorage.Booster),
		table.create(30, game.ServerStorage.Noob),
		table.create(15, game.ServerStorage.Sworder),
	},
	["Wave 5"] = {
		table.create(5, game.ServerStorage.Tanker),
		table.create(30, game.ServerStorage.Noob),
	},
}


return Waves