[Question] About Wait Times/Cooldowns in luna.lua Scripts

[Superbloxen]

I recently tried to make a script while messing around in the editor, but realized that certain code would instantly repeat itself and cause the character to move at extremely high speeds for simple scripts that just add +1 to the character's height or speed. Is there any way to create a wait() command or other sort of cooldown to balance out scripts that do things like this?

[WildW]

I recently tried to make a script while messing around in the editor, but realized that certain code would instantly repeat itself and cause the character to move at extremely high speeds for simple scripts that just add +1 to the character's height or speed. Is there any way to create a wait() command or other sort of cooldown to balance out scripts that do things like this?

You're not being very clear on what exactly you mean by "certain code", maybe try posting an example here and me or someone else can show you the intended way of solving that problem.

To broadly answer your question though, you can utilize the global function onTick, which is ran once for every game tick (~1/65th of a second) or use Routine.wait/Routine.waitFrames.

[Superbloxen]

Here's a snippet of the code in question:

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local MaxSpeedMinus = - 10
function onTick()
     if player.keys.up == KEYS_DOWN then
        if player.speedY > MaxSpeedMinus then
                   player.speedY = (player.speedY - 1) 
                   end
         end
end

I just wanted to add a short cooldown between speed increases so the character wouldn't just jump to max speed instantly when I held the key down.

[Gaming-Dojo]

hello Superbloxen,

I would to that with a simple two variable timer. Here's also an example as I just coincidently used such a construction in my recent character select screen:

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local timer = 30 (whatever you want the delay to be)
local running = false

function yourfunc.onTick()
	
	if timer >= 0 then
		doStuff (change the speed in your case)
		timer = 30 (same value as above, resets the timer)
		running = false -- stops the timer
	end
	
	if running == true then
		doStuff (if you want, not necessary)
		timer = timer - 1
		doStuff (if you want, not necessary)
	end
	
	if timerShallStart (here goes what condition(s) you want to be met for the timer to start) then
		running = true
	else
		running = false
		timer = 30 (resetting timer to initial value so it doesn't start at a lower value if the condition for timer to run is met again)
	end
end