Increasing loop length?

[DiSaMe]

A script in my gamemode uses a loop which isn't infinite, but execution takes too long, so it's aborted before it's finished. Is it possible to increase maximum loop length?

[50p]

No, you can't extend the loop maximum execution time.

[dzek (varez)]

post your code.. i think your script isn't made properly and this problem can be fixed.

[DiSaMe]

It's not about script made improperly. It's about lots of data having to be processed. It's done when resource starts, so it wouldn't cause problems such as freezing during the game. Anyway, that's just a temporary way to see how things work, and I'm going to make a better script without long loops.

[Lordy]

Well how much data is lots of data? And if it's really optimised code, you should maybe break the loops up

I'm not sure if this would work, but worth a try imo

local n = 1
local steps = 20
for n,n+steps do 
--whatever you do
n = n + steps
end
for n,n+steps do
n = n+steps
end

etc.

so it would effectively do the whole loop but would be several loops so it wouldn't time out

[DiSaMe]

That would be the same, because code would be executed on the same frame. Timers are necessary to do things like that, but it would need more scripting.