Help with Resetting a timer

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#1

So I’m trying to make a hitstun system for my game. Heres what I have:

function Stun(Player,Time)
      local hs = Player:WaitForChild('Hitstun')
      hs.Value = true
      wait(Time)
      hs.Value = false
end

The problem with this is if the player gets hit once its absolutely fine. But if they get hit again the function runs again, meaning that the original function will set the hitstun value to false before the second one is down playing. A possible solution for that would be to reset the wait each new time a player gets hit. I have no clue how to do this though.

#2

Instead of using a boolean value you could use an int or number value that tracks the stun time for each player. That way you can determine whether multiple stuns should either stack up or reset the timer.

function Stun(Player, Time)
	local stunned = Player:FindFirstChild("StunTime")
	if (not stunned) then
		stunned = Instance.new("IntValue")
		stunned.Name = "StunTime"
		stunned.Value = Time
		stunned.Parent = Player
		spawn(function()
			while (stunned.Value > 0) do
				-- code that keeps the player stunned goes here
				stunned.Value = stunned.Value - 1
				wait(1)
			end
			stunned:Destroy()
			-- code to un-stun the player goes here
		end)
	else
		-- Use this line if you want additional stuns to RESET the timer.
		stunned.Value = Time

		-- Use this line if you want additional stuns to ADD to the timer.
		--stunned.Value = stunned.Value + Time
	end
end
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#3

Maybe using a if-then to check is the player is already stun or not.

#4 
local stunTimes = {}

local function stun(player, time)
    local hs = player:WaitForChild("HitStun")
    hs.Value = true
    stunTimes[player] = tick()+time
    wait(time)
    if stunTimes[player] <= tick() then
        hs.Value = false
        stunTimes[player] = nil
    end
end
#5

Thank you so much it worked perfectly