Is there a freeze or wait command in LUA to slower down a loop in LUA.

example

Global: a = 1

while (a < 5000)
do
wait or freeze??
a = a + 1
end


Thanks and greetings

Would like to know too.

@VRGames:

Hi,

Try io.read();

This statement will lock the script execution until you click on 'enter key'.

I hope this might help.

Cheers,

Northern

Thanks for the help, I tried io.read(); but the script didn't stop, maybe I did something wrong.

Greetings

It would be useful to know what you are trying to accomplish. From what you are saying it sounds like you are trying to go about something the wrong way to begin with. You should probably be using the timer function and updating your variable each frame based on a delta time. Then you have total control of how something increments/decrements.

@VRGames:

Sorry to know that the suggestion shown on my previous post (io.read()) it was not helpful.

Besides, Tomjscott he is right, because without knowing what you're trying to do with the Lua programming is harder for someone else here to know h

I suspect it is to stop the player from being able to move until something has happened. A way to stop the player running off The start of Skyrim being one example I can think of. I've not seen a way to do this yet myself though. i could be wrong, but that is what I suspect is meant.

If that's the case then he's out of luck because just delaying in a loop isn't going to accomplish that. But for your issue, DVader, I know of a way you can do this at the start of the game if you want to know. You start the player in a spot that is surrounded by invisible walls. He won't be able to move, but he will be able to look around. Then you can destroy those walls after a set length of time or in response to pressing the E key at some point. As for doing it in other areas I suppose you could have invisible walls in certain places that spawn on a trigger and they would trap the player until you let him free to wander.