How would I pause/stop a player's function or script?

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#1

I am trying to make a stun effect that would also pause/stop/cancel a player’s attack. I have looked through articles and I have tried using coroutine.yield or something but I can’t do it from the outside. I also don’t know how to pause or stop a function or something.

Example of what I want: For example, a player uses a stunning move that freezes the other player for a second (I can stop movement obviously) but, the other player is still able to attack which is what I don’t want. Like, you know how in Black Magic 2 where you attack someone and their attack is canceled and stopped in mid time? That is what I want to achieve. All players use keybinds through local scripts, which fires to a remote event to server side. How would I pause the other player’s script or cancel it so their attack just stops and cancels? Please I need help and I am confused. This is the server side scripts and I am trying to cancel it in mid-time

Also, this is on server side, so disabling the script will disable all player’s attacks.

Scripts:

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)

-- attack stuff

local debounce = false

attack.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
local enemyhumanoid = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if debounce == false and enemyhumanoid and enemyhumanoid.Health > 0 then
debounce = true

enemyhumanoid:TakeDamage(10)
enemyhumanoid.WalkSpeed = 0 -- i have other ways to stop the player from moving this is just an example
enemyhumanoid.JumpPower = 0-- i have other ways to stop the player from moving this is just an example

-- enemy attack stop?

end
end)

end)

some ways I thought of was putting a variable to see if the player was stunned or not, then it would skip over the attack. But, the problem is I would need like 100 if statements in this function.

I need help, please help, and you can alter/change/suggest what to change to the script or an efficient way but I want it to be able to stop a player’s attack in mid time.

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#2

You can insert a boolean value into the player’s character through Instance.new(). That will be named CanAttack
Basically

CanAttack = Instance.New("BooleanValue", character)

Now, you can put inside the character script, that if only canattack is true, the player can attack using an if statement.

if Character.CanAttack.Value == true then
    -- Attack
end

Then after the other player gets stuneed, you get other players Canattack and then set its value to false.

if debounce == false and enemyhumanoid and enemyhumanoid.health > 0 then
    CanAttack.Value = false
    -- and other stuff
end

And after he is unstunned, you can again set that value to true.

#3

yeah but how do you stop them from attacking if they were already attacking? I would have to put if statements on each attack part, so what you said is the problem i described, too many if statements and it would be over EVERY single line. If the player was already attacking, this would not do anything.

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#4

Try this:-
Put this inside the functon which attacks.

CanAttack:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
    return return --not sure if this will work but do try
)

Sorry for the late replies. Im busy(Kinda)

#5

whats GetPropertyCHanged Signal(“Value”)?

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#6

It gets when a property of an object is changed, that function fires

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#7

why would i use return return? what will it do

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#8

return breaks a function.
ur returning a return so it will break both functions.

#9

You can use the function above to get an animation track playing on a character or store the value returned by LoadAnimation.

You can then use the function above to stop the animation track. Set the first parameter to 0 to make it stop instantly.

To control the stun, I’d recommend adding an Instance to the player, character, or humanoid (you can also use a BooleanValue as suggested above or a BindableEvent). You can then connect the Instance.ChildAdded event to a function that checks for something named a specific name (ex. “StunnedEffect”). If that happens you can signal weapon code to stop and end connections (touched events, etc.).

#10

dude… theres a red line under the second return

#11

and how would i end the connections tho? thats my whole question

#12

Ill try to find a solution. I was not really sure it would work.

#13

You can pause threads by busy waiting like this

--Code 
local condition = script.Parent.PauseStatus.Value
while true do
 if not condition then
   break
 end
 wait()
end
#14

Oh okay, do something like this:
local connection = part.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
wait(3)
connection:Disconnect()

You need to store the value returned by the connect function.
Written on mobile, sorry for the lack of formating

Edit:

Helpful Resources:

An event (in Roblox) is formally called a RBXScriptSignal:

When you connect an event it returns a connection (aka RBXScriptConnection):

You can then call :Disconnect on this connection to disconnect it (note this stops more threads from being created, doesn’t stop existing ones).

#15

my function isnt in a while true do loop

#16

He is using a function not a while loop. break() only works for loops

#17

disconnect? what does that mean? you can disconnect functions?

#18

You can disconnect event listeners, look into rbx event signals

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#19

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/recipes/How-to-disconnect-an-event-connection

#20

so i would disconnect the function if a boolvalue changed to false or something? or a while true do loop checking it?