How to Make a CoolDown on a charging attack

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#1

What I want to achieve is a cooldown meaning, I press Q, the attack happens, but when I press Q again I want the script to wait 3 seconds. The Issue is I have 2 Userinput Events, InputBegain and InputEnded, if I add a debounce say to InputBegain the Inputended Event Still fires.
I tried to add debounces to both event functions, and I also tried to make separate debounces for both of them but have had no success.

local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RPS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remote = RPS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Animations = RPS.Animations

local function inputBegain(input,Istyping) 
    if Istyping then return end

    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q  then
        Remote:FireServer("Charging")
    end


end

local function inputEnded(input,IsTyping)
    if IsTyping then return end

    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q then
        Remote:FireServer("Done")
    end
end

local function Client(Data)
    local ChargingPose = Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(Animations:WaitForChild("ChargingPose"))
    
    if Data == "Charging" then

        ChargingPose:Play()
        
        print("Charging")
        
        
        
    elseif Data == "Done" then
        ChargingPose.AnimationTrack:Stop()
        print("Charging is completed bro")
        
    end


end

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(inputBegain)
UIS.InputEnded:Connect(inputEnded)
Remote.OnClientEvent:Connect(Client)


```lua
1. ```
local RPS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remote = RPS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

local function ServerCharge(Player,Data)
    if Data == "Charging" then
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Charging")
    elseif Data == "Done" then
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Done")
    end
end

Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(ServerCharge)
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#2

Why not just creating a debounce server-sided? Something like this:

local RPS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Remote = RPS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

local wait_time = 3
local PlayersDebounce = {}


local function ServerCharge(Player,Data)
  if tick() - PlayersDebounce[Player] < wait_time then return end
  PlayersDebounce[Player] = tick() 
  
  if Data == "Charging" then
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Charging")
    elseif Data == "Done" then
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Done")
    end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
     if not PlayersDebounce[player] then
          PlayersDebounce[player] = tick()
     else
         return 
     end
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    PlayersDebounce[player] = nil
end)

Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(ServerCharge)
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#3

Wouldn’t this work? (I could be completely out to lunch here, just writing this quickly at work)

local function inputBegain(input,Istyping) 
    if Istyping then return end
    if debounce = false then
        while input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Q  do
            Remote:FireServer("Charging")
        task.wait(.1)
        end
    debounce = true
    end
end

and put a debounce = false in the line where the function is called to make it work only the first time you hold Q down.

EDIT, dangit that won’t work, you need to check the debounce when you call the function to see if q is already being pressed so the charge function doesn’t get called more than once.

#4

yep thats what I did here is my code

local RPS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remote = RPS:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")



local Cooldowns = {}
local Debounce = false



local function ServerCharge(Player,Data)
    if Data == "Charging"  then
        if Cooldowns[Player] then return end
        Cooldowns[Player] = true 
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Charging")
    elseif Data == "Done" and not Debounce then
        Debounce = true
        Remote:FireClient(Player,"Done")
        task.delay(2, function()
            Debounce = false
            Cooldowns[Player] = false
        end)
    end
end


Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(ServerCharge)
#5

yh problem with that is the UIS input ended event but you identified that problem already so good job