How to give this animation a cooldown

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#1

Hey! I was making a roblox gun script that fires 1 bullet and takes 3 seconds before you can fire another, I made a animation to go along with it but when you wait for the bullet to load you can just spam the animation, is there a way to give this animation a cooldown? Help

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#2

Have you tried wait()?

Maybe look for other methods like here and plug it in the script.

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#3

You could just simply use a debounce, which would prevent the Animation from firing multiple times :wink:

local DB = false

while true do
    if DB == false then
        print("This would only fire once every 5 seconds!")
        DB = true
        wait(5)
        DB = false
    end
end
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#4

where would I put this in my script?

#6

where would I put this in my script though?

#7

Put it inside where you call your Activated event, so that the conditional statement will check if the DB is equal to false or not to be able to set it to true once, preventing it from playing again

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#9 
local tool = script.Parent
local anim = Instance.new("Animation")
anim.AnimationId = 'rbxassetid://6910396829'
local debounce = false
local track

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	if debounce == false then
		debounce = true
		track = script.Parent.Parent.Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(anim)
		track.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action
		track.Looped = false
		track:Play()
		
		wait(3) -- the cooldown
		debounce = false
	end
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	if track then
		track:Stop()
	end
end)

loading animations via the humanoid was deprecated im pretty sure, so its better to do humanoid.Animator

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#10

Thank you all so much for the help! feels so good to see it working how I intended!

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