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I want to set up a simple queue service that can take several messages created rapidly on the server

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side and display them individually on the client side.

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For instance, when we enter the game, we may trigger three or four events, but we want to show the

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messages in a way that the user can actually read it.

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We don't want to just spam them with a bunch of windows that pop up.

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So I'm going to create this simple queue service in its own game and I'm going to move it to my zombie

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game.

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Let's take a look at what we got.

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Hey, I hit the play button.

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All of a sudden, we're going to get three messages that are just created instantly right there.

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And now you can see that the player has time to read them.

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And we could slow this down if we wanted to.

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I thought this would be really useful.

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I created an empty base plate for my Q service.

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There's nothing in it.

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I'm going to start off by going to replicate, add storage, hit the plus, add a remote event because

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we're going to be talking from server to client.

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I'm going to call the remote event info message r E, and we're going to need something to generate

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messages for our test.

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Let's go to server script service, hit the plus, add a script and I'll call this message gen.

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There we go.

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Let's get rid of our print statement and get a variable for replicated storage.

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Call it RS game, get service, replicated storage, and then in replicated storage, I'm going to get

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my info message remote event or info message re.

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It is in replicated storage.

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We'll do a wait for child info message r a now type in game players to get the player service.

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We'll get the player added event from the player service.

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Connect that to an anonymous function with a player gets passed in.

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We could do a print statement just so we know that we've we haven't made any mistakes up to this point.

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We'll do player added and then perhaps wait 5 seconds just so that you you can you can view stuff in

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the world before things start firing off.

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You get in there All right.

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And then I'm going to do a prep statement.

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I'm going to say print sending messages.

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So I know that if I'm waiting too long after that, something has failed.

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If I'm waiting at all after that, something has failed.

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I'm going to make a for loop, for I equals 1 to 3.

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We'll do three messages in steps of one.

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Do make a variable for your message.

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And what I say I call this something like this is message number.

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Put a space speech quote dot, dot I.

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So we're going to concatenate the number on our string with these two dots.

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Now, what should I do?

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Let's print it out.

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Print.

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Server side message and let's do MSG.

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What else we will fire.

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Let's fire our remote event.

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So we're going to fire the remote event.

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Nothing's there to catch it yet, but we'll go ahead and fire it.

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Fire client.

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You're going to need the player to pass it to.

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And the message.

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All right, let's try this out.

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We should only be able to see stuff on the server side now because we didn't do anything with the client

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side.

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I'll hit the play button.

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We'll go to view output.

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So I get my output window view output.

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There it is.

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And there's our messages.

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So we had our player added, sending messages.

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We've got three messages.

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Let's go ahead and turn off our game and work on the client side stuff now.

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So I'll just turn this off.

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And I'm going to close this window right here.

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Let's go to our starter guy, because we're going to do this stuff and we're going to display messages

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with the with the guy.

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So let's hit the plus sign screen gooey and then on the screen gooey.

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I'm going to do a local script and the local script, I'm going to call this process

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MSG script.

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On the client side, we are also going to have to get a variable for our info message.

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RE That's the gateway.

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So we have to connect on both sides.

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Let's get a variable for replicated storage game, get service, replicated storage, and then I'm going

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to get a variable for info, what I call that info message.

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Ari I probably should just copied it from the other one or a replicated storage wait for child info

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message.

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Ari.

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I'm also going to get a variable for my message queue.

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It's basically just going to be a table, but a queue is something where when you put messages in it,

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the first one out is going to be the first one in.

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That's why they call it a queue as opposed to a stack.

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Like if you stack something, the last thing on the stack is going to be the first thing you pull off.

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Or they say Pop, they pop, you pop something off the stack, but the queue, the first one in is going

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to be the first one out.

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Now I'm going to put messages in my message queue so we have our info message.

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R e that's firing messages off.

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We can capture them by doing our message info r e on client event connecting that to an anonymous function.

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If you remember on the other side, we passed in the player and the message the player is used to get

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to you.

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Right?

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This is a local script running locally on your computer, so we don't have the player here.

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We're just going to get the MSG the message.

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Then I'll use this table insert to insert my message into this table.

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And here's the message We didn't provide an index, so it's just going to put the message on the end.

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So this queue is going to continue to get messages.

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We need to process the messages or else it doesn't really pay to have a queue.

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So let's do a function local function process, MSG, and then we're going to do a while loop and I'll

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just put a weight in here.

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So we'll pull every 2 seconds, maybe every one second.

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We don't want to wait that long.

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And so while wait one second, do let's check for if there are messages in our queue, I'm going to

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look for the number of messages in our MSG queue check to see if it's greater than zero.

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If it is, I'm going to process a message and right now our processing just means printing it.

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So I'll do a client side process.

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MSG queue whoops, MSG queue bracket one.

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We're going to get the first message in the queue.

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Remember first in, first out, then we're going to remove we'll do a table, remove MSG, queue that

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first, that first message right there.

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And then the other condition that can happen is if the queue is empty.

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So if there's nothing in the queue.

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We'll do a print.

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The queue is empty and we need to call this, but we don't want it to interrupt anything.

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It's got an infinite while loop, so we have to be careful of that.

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Let's go down to the bottom and I think I'm just going to spawn process message in its own thread.

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So we're just going to spawn this off and then it's going to start running.

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It's not going to interfere with this script right here.

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All right, let's try it out and hit the play button.

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I'm going to go to my view tab and hit the output.

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Q is empty and boom, we got some messages and you can see that they printed out one a second after

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that and then the Q is empty again.

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That's pretty cool.

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Let's add a UI and then we can actually start displaying the message to the user in a way that would

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make sense for a player in a game.