Need help allowing fighting animations to play one after another from rapid user input

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#1

Hello, Im making a fighting game where the player clicks either LeftClick or RightClick to create an animation where the player punches. Hit detection is all set and so are the animations.

I want to be able to make it so the player can click numerous times without having a timeout. Currently, there’s a debounce in the user input so that when a player clicks while the player is in a fighting animation nothing happens. I have this debounce because if the player spam clicks the animation repeats over and over without letting it finish. However, I have combos in the game and having this debounce makes it unappealing. I want it to make it so when the player clicks two times in rapid succession, the character successfully does two punching animations one after another

Player clicks left click two times
Player left punch
Player left punch

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This is my code from the local script

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local event = ReplicatedStorage.Events.Input
local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
local LeftHand = character.LeftHand
local RightHand = character.RightHand
local Hit = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Events").Hit
character.Values.Fighting.Value = false

local debounce = false

local debounce2 = false

local hand

local inputs = {}



local combo = false

local function checkCombo()
	if #inputs >= 3 then
		
		if inputs[#inputs - 2] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then		
			if inputs[#inputs - 1] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
				if inputs[#inputs] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
					combo = true
					print("combo")
					table.clear(inputs)
				end
			end


		end




		if inputs[#inputs - 2] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
			if inputs[#inputs - 1] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
				if inputs[#inputs] == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
					combo = true
					print("combo")
					table.clear(inputs)
				end
			end

		end
		
	end
end


local function UserInput(input, gameProcessed)
		

	
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		if character.Values.Fighting.Value == false then
		
		table.insert(inputs, input.UserInputType)

		
		checkCombo()
		
		print(inputs)
		
		if combo == true then
			event:FireServer(character, "UpperCut")
			hand = "left"
			
		else
			event:FireServer(character, "LeftPunch")
			hand = "left"
		end
		
			combo = false
			
		end		
		
	end

	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton2 then
		if character.Values.Fighting.Value == false then
		
		table.insert(inputs, input.UserInputType)

		
		checkCombo()
		
		print(inputs)
		
		if combo == true then
			event:FireServer(character, "Haymaker")
			hand = "right"
			
		else
			event:FireServer(character, "RightPunch")
			hand = "right"
		end

			combo = false
			
		end
		
	
	
end
	
end

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(UserInput)

LeftHand.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and not (part.Parent == character) and debounce == false and hand == "left" then
		debounce = true
		print("target found")
		
		local victim = part.Parent
		
		Hit:FireServer(character, victim)
		
		character.Values.Fighting.Changed:Wait()
		hand = nil
		debounce = false
		
	end
end)


RightHand.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and not (part.Parent == character) and debounce == false and hand == "right" then
		debounce = true
		print("target found")

		local victim = part.Parent

		Hit:FireServer(character, victim)

		character.Values.Fighting.Changed:Wait()
		hand = nil
		debounce = false

	end
end)
#2

You have debounce, so there is a delay between animations?

Unless your refering to have diffrent animations

#3

The debounce here for the lefthand.touched and righthand.touched is irrelevant for the animations as its for hit detection so that the player doesn’t get punched numerous times.

However there is a debounce in the playAnim functions, which basically wait for the animation to be done before the player can mouse click again. This is the debounce that I wanna solve so that the user can click whenever they want and that the animation plays for each input one after another.

#4

There is no delay between animations. As soon as the animation is finished by a wait(Animation.Length), the player can click again.

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