setTimer

Schedules a Lua function to run after a delay, optionally more than once.

Syntax

int setTimer(function callback, int intervalMs, int timesToExecute, ...)

Name	Type	Required	Description
`callback`	`function`	yes	The function to execute.
`intervalMs`	`int`	yes	Delay between executions in milliseconds. The minimum is 10.
`timesToExecute`	`int`	yes	Number of executions. Use 0 to repeat indefinitely.
`...`	`any`	no	Optional values passed to the callback each time it runs.

Returns a positive timer identifier on success, or 0 when the timer could not be created.

Print a message three times at one-second intervals:

local timer = setTimer(function(message)
    print(message)
end, 1000, 3, "One second passed")

Available in both client-side and server-side resource scripts.
Expanded limits apply from update 0.1.3 BUILD81. Client limits: 8192 timers per resource, at most 256 selected callbacks per tick, oldest deadline first, and 32 callback arguments. The server has no corresponding fixed timer-count or callbacks-per-tick cap; memory and execution budgets still apply. See Scripting limits; earlier 0.1.3 binaries retain their old limits.