I’ve wanted to make a bar that fills up when you hold your mouse button and if you arent holding it slowly goes down, and when the bar is full it triggers an event where you throw a soap bar, since I never did lerping i’m having some problems, anyone know how to fix it and maybe any tips??
local bar = script.BarGUI
local char = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
bar.Parent = char:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
bar = bar.Bg.Bar
local pressing = false
local alpha = 0
mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
pressing = true
print("Holding")
end)
mouse.Button1Up:Connect(function()
pressing = false
print("Not Holding")
end)
while task.wait() do
print(alpha)
if alpha >= 0.067 then
print("Can throw")
bar.Size = bar.Size:Lerp(UDim2.fromScale(1,1),1)
continue
elseif alpha < 0 then
alpha = 0
bar.Size = bar.Size:Lerp(UDim2.fromScale(1,0),1)
continue
end
if pressing then
alpha += 0.0007
bar.Size = bar.Size:Lerp(UDim2.fromScale(1,1),alpha)
else
alpha -= 0.001
bar.Size = bar.Size:Lerp(UDim2.fromScale(1,1),alpha)
end
end
Don’t do this it isn’t consistent between devices and play sessions. Do like RunService.RenderStepped and then get the deltaTime and multiply it by some number
task.wait() (when no argument is provided) is already frame rate dependent I believe (they changed it to this behaviour a few months ago).
The point of using deltaTime is that you multiply the changed alpha values by delta time (times some constant), such that the rate will be the same for each frame rate.
The calculation involving delta time would be something likeVALUE * DELTATIME, where value is the amount that it changes per second, and deltatime is the value from RenderStepped.
(If you don’t want to use RenderStepped while still making use of delta time, you can utilise the return value of task.wait(), as it is also effectively delta time)
I would still recommend making use of delta time / the return value of task.wait(), otherwise different framerates will have different ‘charge’ rates
e.g.
while true do
local dt = task.wait()
if pressing then
alpha += 0.01 / 60 * dt
else
alpha -= 0.01 / 60 * dt
end
alpha = math.clamp(alpha, 0, 1)
bar.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, alpha)
if alpha == 1 then
print("yes")
end
end
Also, did your change resolve the issue you were having, or do you still need assistance with it?
