How do i add a cooldown to my finisher noise script?

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#1

ive made a small script that plays a sound when the handle of my tool touches somebody whos health is either at 0 or lower.

however every time it touches somebody who fills those requites it just repeats the script over and over until the tool is no longer touching them. (the results is my ears dying everytime)

how exactly would i go about adding a cooldown to the sound so it isnt constantly looping the sound?

-- heads up: i suck at scripting and all my knowledge is from "borrowing" and editing scripts
-- augh

local finisher = script.Parent.Handle.FinisherSound

function onTouch(hit)
local humanoid = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health <= 0 then
finisher:Play()
end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouch)

the end result should make the sound play once before going on a cooldown basically
pls help :pray: :pray: :pray:

#2

So the way to fix this is to add what we call is a debounce what this is a varible that is set to a bool value ( bool value is true and false) so inside the script at the start after you have made the necessary checks you see if it is check a value true or false and if it is set to the value then we return the function. But if it isn’t we set it to the value that we would skip. Then after running the code we can add a task.wait() then set it back the orangial value.
Example code:

local DB = false
script.parent.Touched:Connect(function()
if DB == true then return end
DB = true
task.wait(3)
DB = false
end)

So in your case it would be

local finisher = script.Parent.Handle.FinisherSound
local DB = false

function onTouch(hit)
 if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
    if hit.Parent.Humanoid.Health <= 0 then
      if DB == true then return end
      DB = true
      finisher:Play()
      task.wait(putinyourtime)
      DB = false
  end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouch)
  • edit formated the script correctly.
    Edit 2 fixed bugs in script
#3
  1. What if the thing that hit it doesn’t have a humanoid. It’s going to search for the health property in nil and error.
  1. This will still run the statements in the connection even during debounce, and we know Touched is notorious for running hundreds of times in a row, so why not disconnect the entire connection during the debounce cooldown?
#4

had to fix up the touch functions myself but it works now!!!

thanks for the help king :crown:

#5

Oh i just copued your script and added my adjustment.

#6

yea the script i gave was broken and didnt even play the sound, but now it does and it has a cooldown too!