Easiest way to make lua script wait/pause/sleep/block for a few seconds?

Question

I cant figure out how to get lua to do any common timing tricks, such as

• sleep - stop all action on thread

• pause/wait - don\'t go on to the

Answer 1

You can do this:

function Sleep(seconds)
    local endTime = os.time() + seconds
    while os.time() < endTime do
    end
end
print("This is printed first!")
Sleep(5)
print("This is printed 5 seconds later!")