[SCRIPT] Adding delay to for-loop

[Mudbill]

Why use a for-loop? How about a timer loop?

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int count = 0;

void TimerLoop(string &in asTimer)
{
    SetEntityActive(gNameOfSpiderEggs+""+count, false);
    SetEntityActive(gNameOfSpider+""+count, true);
    SetEntityActive(gNameOfBrokenSpiderEggs+""+count, true);

    count++; 
    AddTimer(asTimer, RandFloat(0.3f, 1.7f), "TimerLoop");
} 


A for-loop will repeat the same action for a certain amount of times. It would work if Amnesia had any form of Thread.sleep(); function, but it does not as far as I'm aware of. A while-loop crashes you because it loops infinitely as long as the boolean question is accepted.

This Timer-loop is basically just an infintely looping timer. It repeats with a random delay to each iteration. Some of the variables I used can be replaced by the function versions (by that I mean the SetLocalVarInt instead of primitive int) if you prefer those.

To start the loop, just call

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TimerLoop("loop"); 


To stop the loop, just call

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RemoveTimer("loop"); 


You can add further checks to it so that it will only repeat for your specified Min and Max amounts, but those are simple if-statements. You can probably figure out what needs tweaking.