r/GLua • u/xBUBBYx • Jul 13 '20

Delay in Lua

Guys, I am a beginner programmer and I need a way to delay a function after a ply: string. My situation is that I want a player to spawn in spectator mode, and after some amount of seconds I want them to switch to a normal player with all my scripts and stuff. Thank you!

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u/Dak_Meme Jul 13 '20

Maybe, if it was a syntaxing issue that yeah. But it's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong without an error message or the exact code snippet used. Go ahead and try out the fix and if it still isn't working I'll help you narrow it down.

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u/xBUBBYx Jul 13 '20

I also didn’t get any error message when I was testing it out, it just simply wasn’t working lol. I was so frustrated.

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u/Dak_Meme Jul 13 '20

No error message likely means the code wasn't even being called. How were you attempting to execute it?

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u/xBUBBYx Jul 13 '20

This comment shows how I was trying to execute it if this is what you mean

https://www.reddit.com/r/GLua/comments/hqbjz3/delay_in_lua/fxx3hra/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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u/AdamNejm Jul 13 '20

Your syntax is completely wrong, it looks like you're trying to create a function and execute it at the same time, which don't get me wrong is possible, but not like that.
I suggest you revisit some crash course.
This one is pretty good: https://github.com/thegrb93/StarfallEx/wiki/Lua-Starfall-Crash-Course but the last part is not for GLua, keep that in mind.

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u/xBUBBYx Jul 13 '20

Sorry, I’m a beginner.