How to make the wait time longer whiles it is waiting?

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#1

I am trying to make the wait time reset to 3.5 every time the mouse button is clicked whiles it is waiting.

For example:

local waitingtime = 3.5
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
	waitingtime = 3.5
	end
end)
wait(waitingtime)
aim = true

But it does not work. How would I do this?

I am trying to make a third person aim system like GTA 5 where if you press mouse button and the wait time is at 2.5 the wait time will go back to 3.5

local waitingtime = 0
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
	mb1 = true
	waitingtime = 3.5
	if canaim.Value == true then
		
		local rootPart = Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		local rx, ry, rz = Camera.CFrame:ToOrientation()
		rootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(rootPart.CFrame.p) * CFrame.fromOrientation(0, ry, 0)
		aim = true
		
	end
end)

mouse.Button1Up:Connect(function()
	mb1 = false
	
	wait()
	waitingtime = 3.5
	isrun.Changed:Connect(function()
		if isrun.Value == true then
			if mb2 == false then
				if mb1 == false then
					aim = false
				end
			end
		end
	end)
	wait(waitingtime)
	if mb2 == false then
		if mb1 == false then
			aim = false
		end
	end	
end)

If you are confused about what I am talking about let me know.

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#2

What exactly isn’t working? We need more context.

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#3

i dont understand what u are trying to do

#4

You can define your function and a globally accessible variable and then decrement waiting_time in the script by dt, otherwise referred to as “delta time”, which in this case is referred to as the change in time between the time the wait() function is called and when the script continues after it has waited:

local waiting_time = 3.5

function custom_wait()
    while (waiting_time > 0) do
       waiting_time -= wait()
    end
end

mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
    waiting_time = 3.5
end)

custom_wait()
aim = true
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#5

I think I somewhat understand what you are trying to do. I wouldn’t say this is the best method, but this is just to give you a general idea :

local waitingtime = 3.5
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
  waittingtime = 3.5
end)

while waittingtime < 0 do
  wait(.5)
  waittingtime -= .5
end

This without a doubt is a pretty bad method, but I hope I gave you a good idea on what you have to do. There’s other things as well, such a coroutine wrap function. Which will allow you to have the loop, without interrupting the script

#6

Yes, that gave me my answer thank you. Nevermind It does not work!!!

local waitingtime = 3.5
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
  waittingtime = 3.5
end)

while waitingtime >=0.1 do
	waitingtime =waitingtime - .1
        wait(0.1)
	print(waitingtime)
end 

if waitingtime <= 0 then 
      aim = true
end

This kinda what I wanted

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#7

You should use os.clock() to track your last time input of the mouse and then measure os.clock() - lastInputTime >= 3.5.