How do I add debounce to this?

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#1

Hello everyone for the 1 millionth time.

I am having this issue were I can’t add a debounce to equipping a tool. This is the code already I just don’t know what to put in?

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	ToolEquipAnimation:Play() -- Plays animation when equipped
		
	ToolEquipAnimation.Stopped:Connect(function()
		ToolIdleAnimation:Play() -- When equip animation stops, it plays the tool idle animation which is a looping animation
	end)
end)

Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function() -- When tool is unequipped, it gets all the playing animations and stops them
	for _, AnimationTrack in pairs(Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
		if AnimationTrack.Name == "R15ToolIdle" or AnimationTrack.Name == "R6ToolIdle" then
			AnimationTrack:Stop()
		end
	end
end)
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#2

Wow must be very hard to crack…

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#3

What do you want to have the debounce for? Could you please explain why you want a debounce and how you want it to work?

Here is an example of a debounce:

local DB = false -- debounce

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	if not DB then -- if debounce is false
		DB = true -- makes debounce to true
		ToolEquipAnimation:Play() -- Plays animation when equipped
		
		ToolEquipAnimation.Stopped:Connect(function()
			ToolIdleAnimation:Play() -- When equip animation stops, it plays the tool idle animation which is a looping animation
		end)
		task.wait() -- time here
		DB = false
	end
end)
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#4

Hello, sorry for late reply.

I wanted to add a debounce system to stop the player from spam equipping the tool. I tried the code and put in a time for the task.wait() but it still is spammable.

#5

What number value did you put in the task.wait()?

#6

I put a 2 second delay before setting the debounce to false.

#7

So after 2 seconds the player can re-equip it, or are they able to do it instantly over and over?

If the tool is equipped then make a boolvalue for it, for example let’s call it equipped. When equipped = true make it so that the function won’t run at all when the tool is already in use.

#8

This might be what you’re looking for. How to add a equip cooldown for a tool?

#9

Yes the player can instantly equip over and over.

I basically just want a cooldown for equipping the tool.

I think I wrote the code wrong:

ToolDebounce = false

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	if ToolDebounce == false then
		ToolEquipAnimation:Play()
		
		ToolEquipAnimation.Stopped:Connect(function()
			ToolIdleAnimation:Play()
		end)
		
		ToolDebounce = true
	elseif ToolDebounce == true then
		
		task.wait(2)
		
		ToolDebounce = false
	end
end)
#10

You can do something like this:

local plr = Tool.Parent

local DB = false


Tool.equipped:connect(function()

If DB then
plr.Character.Humanoid:UnequipTools()
else
—what you would do here
end
end)
#11

I have put this but where do I set the debounce to false?

local ToolDebounce = false

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	if not ToolDebounce then
		ToolDebounceEvent:FireServer()
	else
		ToolEquipAnimation:Play()
		
		ToolEquipAnimation.Stopped:Connect(function()
			ToolIdleAnimation:Play()
		end)
	end
end)
#12

I don’t think I’m fully understanding. Do you want whatever happens when the tool is equipped to have a cool down, or do you want a generic cool down that doesn’t allow the player to hold to item until the cool down is complete?

#13

I want a generic cooldown that doesn’t allow the player to hold the item until the cooldown is complete. Sorry that the :FireServer event might confuse you. It unequips the tool on the server as you can’t change it on the client because it displays an error when using :UnequipTools() on the client.

#14

When i have nowhere to put a timer, i throw it in a coroutine.wrap function. It will keep running while you go about your business.

#15

I’m not sure where you’d want the cool down to start. Could you specify that?

#16

The debounce can’t stay false forever otherwise the debounce won’t work. It needs for example:

wait(2)

Debounce = false

But I am not sure on where to put this?

#17

Oh okay. If you didn’t want them to spam the tool, you would probably put that in the unequipped function (so once they unequip it, they can’t equip it for 2 seconds

Do something like


local plr = Tool.Parent

local DB = false


Tool.equipped:connect(function()

If DB then
plr.Character.Humanoid:UnequipTools()
else
—what you would do here
end
end)

Tool.Unequipped:connect(function()
 DB = true

task.wait(2)

DB = false

end)
#18

Sorry to say but yes I do have a unequip function and it has a for loop inside which stops all running animation where should I put it now?

Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	for _, AnimationTrack in pairs(Animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
		if AnimationTrack.Name == "R15ToolIdle" or AnimationTrack.Name == "R6ToolIdle" then
			AnimationTrack:Stop()
		end
	end
	
	ToolDebounce = true
	
	task.wait(2)
	
	ToolDebounce = false
end)
#19

I don’t have my computer with me right now, but I’m pretty sure that it should work nonetheless?

If it doesn’t work try making another unequipped function to do it