Cancelling a lerp runservice connection

[Remingling]

Hi,

I was making a slow regain walk script and I ran into a problem. I used lerp and runservice to regain the walk speed but I am having problems cancelling the lerp. For example, I have it so when I am going backwards, it goes to 6 speed and “disconnects” the runservice. Problem is it isn’t disconnecting anything. When I am going back, it is still lerping the speed (I used walkspeed property change to check)

here is the script:

-- controls movement animation
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local Figure = LocalPlayer.Character
local Humanoid = Figure:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local MaxSpeed = 13
local WalkLerp


local function lerp(a, b, t)
	return a + (b - a) * t
end

function OnDirectionChange()
	local RelativeDirection = Humanoid.MoveDirection:Dot(Camera.CFrame.LookVector)
	
	if RelativeDirection > 0.68 or RelativeDirection > 0.75 then -- foward
		print("Moving Foward")
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 10
		
		if not WalkLerp then
			print("h")
			WalkLerp = RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
				if Humanoid.WalkSpeed == MaxSpeed or RelativeDirection < -0.68 or RelativeDirection < -0.75 then
					WalkLerp = nil
				end
				
				Humanoid.WalkSpeed = lerp(Humanoid.WalkSpeed, MaxSpeed, 0.1)
			end)
		end	
	end
	
	if RelativeDirection < -0.68 or RelativeDirection < -0.75 then 
		print("Moving Backwards")
		Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 6
	end
end

-- debug
Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("WalkSpeed"):Connect(function()
	print(Humanoid.WalkSpeed)
end)


Humanoid.Running:Connect(OnDirectionChange)
	

[Kitsomia (Mia)]

You never called disconnect on WalkLerp though?

shouldn’t it be in this?

Or disconnect it here before setting the value to nil.

[Remingling]

Doesn’t changing a connection to nil already disconnnect it? I tried disconnecting it but tha didnt work so I switched to that instead.

[Kitsomia (Mia)]

OH heh, no GC doesn’t automatically clear connections when you set it to nil. You have to do connection:Disconnect() then it’ll do the rest.

[Remingling]

I’ll try that tomorrow, I’m not sure if it will help though. Thanks