Hey devforum how can I make it so if the player stands still for a certain ammount of time they will go afk?

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#1

As the title suggests I want to make it so that if a player stands still for lets say 5 seconds without moving then they it will print("1") how can I do this? My current attempt is using a movement module I made for detecting movement and using spawn functions waits and denounces but as you can tell that didn’t go to plan.

here’s my movement detector in bind to render stepped;

if not MOVEMENT_FUNCTIONS.CheckMovement() then
		
end;

returns false if not moving returns true if is moving.

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#2 
local players = game:GetService("Players")

player.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
		player.Idled:Connect(function(duration)
			if duration >= 60 then --60 seconds
				--do code
			end
		end)
	end)
end)

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/Player/Idled

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#3

This would not work because I want to detect small increments of time like 5 seconds. In the documentation it says it will be fired 2 mins after the engine detects player to be afk which is way too long for me.

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#4

Okay, to be fair you did clarify that in the post, I only read the title.

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer or players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local timer = 0
local idle = false

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function()
	timer = 0
	idle = false
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function()
	while task.wait(1) do
		timer += 1
		if timer >= 5 then
			idle = true
			--do stuff
			break --break out of loop when finished
		end
	end
end)
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#5

Won’t this code indefinitely yield for 5 seconds even after InputBegan fired (if the player moved in the 5 second duration)? Add a check in the while loop to determine if InputBegan happenned to break out the loop without doing anything or use events

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#6 
break --break out of loop when finished

I left the customisation up to the original poster.

#7 
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer or players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local timer = 0
local idle = false

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function()
	timer = 0
	idle = false
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function()
	idle = true
	while task.wait(1) do
		if not idle then
			break
		end
		timer += 1
		if timer >= 5 then
			--do stuff
			break --break out of loop when finished
		end
	end
end)
#8

No, that’s not what I mean. Your code is doing something like:

  • Player stops moving, InputEnded fires
  • while loop begins
  • In the same time before 5 seconds, the player moves and InputBegan is fired, but the previous InputEnded loop hasn’t ended yet (and if InputEnded fired again you would be doubling the while loop execution?)
#9

Added the fix before you replied, to explain, I took it from one of my own projects which didn’t require a check.

#10

No it isn’t fixed yet

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer or players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local timer = 0
local idle = false
local plrInteracting = false

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function()
    plrInteracting = true
	timer = 0
	idle = false
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function()
    plrInteracting = false
    while not plrInteracting and task.wait(1) do
		timer += 1
		if timer >= 5 then
		    idle = true
			--do stuff
			break --break out of loop when finished
		end
	end
end)
#11 
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer or players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local uis = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local timer = 0
local idle = false

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function()
	timer = 0
	idle = false
end)

uis.InputEnded:Connect(function()
	idle = true
	while task.wait(1) do
		if not idle then
			break
		end
		timer += 1
		if timer >= 5 then
			--do stuff
			break --break out of loop when finished
		end
	end
end)

This is working fine my end.

#12

Now I am not 100% sure if this will work but I really wanna do this in a render stepped. Do you know how could I wait a second using tick() then increase a value by 1?

#13 
task.wait(1)
--increment something by 1