The FPS continues to drop as I play my game while the ping rises. I believe it may be one of 2 reasons as I am a new scripter. Every time I animate an attack, I load the animation first, not sure if it could be because of loading too many tracks on the humanoids or something instead of preloading them? The more likely reason is my script which deals with cooldowns for player attributes like if they are able to block or not in combat. I don’t want the cooldowns to overide each other so I made this script that creates a new event, the script has int values inside of them that represent the time I want to cooldown to last :
local detectors = script.Parent
--Adds the event to all timers
local OldValues = {
CanAttackOld = 0,
CanBarrageOld = 0,
CanBlockOld = 0,
CanDashOld = 0,
CanDeflectOld = 0,
CanEquipOld = 0
}
local ticks = {
CanAttackTick = 0,
CanBarrageTick = 0,
CanBlockTick = 0,
CanDashTick = 0,
CanDeflectTick = 0,
CanEquipTick = 0
}
for i,v in pairs(script:GetChildren()) do
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--Event that checks when timer starts
v.Changed:Connect(function(change)
local timer = v
local detector = script.Parent:FindFirstChild(v.Name)
local continueRunning = true
local startRunning = true
--Makes sure that the change is an actual change and not the timer being reset
if v.Value ~= 0 then
--Turns the detector off
detector.Value = false
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--Gets the tick that the previous timer started running at as well as the value of the old timer
local oldValue
local oldTick
--Timer value
for i,v in pairs(OldValues) do
if i == timer.Name.."Old" then
oldValue = i
end
end
--Tick value
for i,v in pairs(ticks) do
if i == timer.Name.."Tick" then
oldTick = i
end
end
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--The function that starts a new timer
local function BeginTimer ()
local TimeToWait = timer.Value --Stores the timer value so that it can be reset to 0, awaiting a new timer
ticks[oldTick] = tick() --Sets the value of the oldTick variable
OldValues[oldValue] = timer.Value/1000 --Sets the value of the oldTimer variable
timer.Value = 0 --Resets the timer so that if an identical tiemr to the previous is called, the change will be registered
--Checks if the timer is changed a second time
timer.Changed:Connect(function()
--Prevents any small timers from stopping a bigger one
if (timer.Value/1000) > (OldValues[oldValue] - (tick() - ticks[oldTick])) then
continueRunning = false --Tells the current timer if it should continue to run or not
end
end)
--The timer
task.wait(TimeToWait/1000)
--Checks if this timer is still valid
if continueRunning == true then
--Turns the detector back to true
detector.Value = true
end
end
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--Ensures that a small timer within a bigger timers range will not run
if (timer.Value/1000) > (OldValues[oldValue] - (tick() - ticks[oldTick])) then
BeginTimer()
end
end
end)
end
I am guessing this is why my game is lagging because of the constant creation of new events but I want to be sure so that I can resolve the issue. Some tips to fix it if you know would be lovely too.
