Changing a value

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#1

Heya,
In my script, I am trying to make a block value change to true, but after x seconds it changes back UNLESS it gets set to true again which would reset the timer of x seconds, if that makes sense.

statusFolder["Stunned"].Value = true
				delay(0.4,function()
					--if tick() - secFromlastAttack >= 0.4 then ## was experimenting here
						statusFolder["Stunned"].Value = false
					--end
				end)

That’s what I currently had.
Any help is appreciated!

#2

Do .stunned not [“stunned”] should work

#3

Um what? I don’t think you’re understanding the problem.

#4

What errors are you getting, or what happens instead of your desired effect?

#5

Instance[ChildName] works, try it yourself

#6

It’s not an error, I’m asking for what kind of approach I should be taking.

#7

A delay function is perfectly fine. It creates a new thread and continues running the rest of the script, and calls your function when the delay is up. If you don’t need the new thread, a wait() works just as fine.

#8

Nono, basically I need some kind of detection system to see if the value was set to true again, hence why I tried to check if the previous attack distance was bigger than the current one, and if so then make the value false but it didn’t seem to work.

#9 
BoolValue.Changed:Connect(function(NewValue)
   if NewValue then
      print(true)
   end
end)
#10

will this work :sweat_smile:

local debounce = false

statusFolder["Stunned"].Value = true
secFromlastAttack = tick() --this will reset to latest time every time player get stunned
-- I created this debounce to prevent creating a new thread again,
-- if you have a code below the task.spawn, probably you can put debounce inside task.spawn
if debounce then return end 
debounce = true
task.spawn(function()
	while statusFolder["Stunned"].Value then
		if tick() - secFromlastAttack >= 0.4 then 
			statusFolder["Stunned"].Value = false
			debounce = false
		end
		task.wait(.05) 
	end
end)

Edit : alright made some changes, thanks for feedback

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#11

YES! Thank you.
I changed some stuff around such as the debounce and wait times etc to make it fit in but the overall method works perfectly.
Thanks alot!

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#12

use task.wait instead of wait()
also please don’t use tick() for this, try using the os library instead, os.click() could be used

#13 
while task.wait() do
	if statusFolder["Stunned"].Value do
		task.wait(0.4)
		stunnedOff()
	end
end

function stunnedOff()
	statusFolder["Stunned"].Value = false
end

Probably as simple as you’ll get it.

#14

This wouldn’t work at all sorry.

#15

Why not? The script looks fine to me, unless you mean it’s not what you’re looking for. Your original post was a little ambiguous.

#16

Yea it’s not what I’m looking for and I’ve already marked this post with a solution. Thanks for trying to help though!