Understanding this For Loop

FiveM Resource Development & Modding Discussion
1

I’ve been checking out RottenV’s last released zombiespawner.lua (and all the other spawners). I got everything working by removing this for loop, but I want to know why this loop is here and what exactly it does.

Basically the script as-is never gets into this for loop. I’m assuming because the table players is empty? I have little coding knowledge, I’m just making guesses and wondered if someone could explain it. The script begins with:

players = {}

RegisterNetEvent("Z:playerUpdate")
AddEventHandler("Z:playerUpdate", function(mPlayers)
	players = mPlayers
end)

and loads fine up to this point.

				for _, player in pairs(players) do
					Wait(1)

				end

I’m just trying to understand the significance and whether or not I truly need this in a spawning script.

2

That loop pretty much just sets the wait time each time a player is looped through.

3

Ahhhh I see I see. Any clue why it wont go into the loop?

I’ve placed debugging traces outside of the for loop and inside it and it never reaches the inside.

4

Probably any mistake in the code before, I had a similar problem some time ago. Check the Code for mistakes

5

If the players table is empty then yes, it will technically never reach the loop as there’s nothing to iterate through. Sorry, posted my initial response when I first woke up and missed that question. lol