Hotbar System. (making it)

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#1

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a hotbar system for my gamea battlegrounds game . I want it to work smoothly on Right. However, I’m struggling to get it right.

What I Need:

  • A hotbar UI that displays four moves.
  • Cooldowns for each move.
  • An Auto-Use feature (if the player has AutoUse set to true, the move should activate automatically when it’s available).
  • Mobile & console support (buttons for mobile, controller compatibility for consoles).

I found TSB’s hotbar in the toolbox, but it lacks cooldowns and auto-use, so it doesn’t quite work for my needs.

I’d really appreciate any help or examples to point me in the right direction.

#2

im working on a system like this, you can examine it. almost done.

#3

Cooldowns are probably scripted in the abilities itself get the tick it was used and how long you have to wait before using it

For auto-use, once you have the cooldowns you can use a loop to check if they’re off cooldown and tell the server to fire the ability if they are (ofc sanity checks on the server still)

#4

ty if its ready could u dm me or reply here?

#5

ty ill add it to my notes so i could try it

#6

1 Client uses a skill move
2 Client fires server the skill move
3 Server executes the skill and tells the player to start cooldown and sends workspace:GetServerTimeNow()
4 Skill move info such as name / levelRequired / coolDown are held in ReplicatedStorage for both boundaries easy access so the client can visualize the cooldown.
5 Do what you prefer with the design (sliding cooldown, etc)
6 Server doesn’t constantly track or update your cooldown, just once checks if the time since that GetServerTimeNow that cooldown time has passed