Problem with player's custom footsteps

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#1

I made my own footsteps system for the player, but why does it sometimes have drawdowns? that is, the sounds of walking may lag by 1-2 seconds?

here’s the code:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local StarterPlayer = game:GetService("StarterPlayer")
local Debris = game:GetService("Debris")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local SFX = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("SFX")
local Sounds = SFX.Footsteps

local Character = script.Parent

		local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

		local Climbing_Speed = 0
		
		Humanoid.Climbing:Connect(function(Speed)
			Climbing_Speed = Speed
		end)
		
		while Humanoid.Health > 0 do
			local Moving = (HumanoidRootPart.Velocity - Vector3.new(0, HumanoidRootPart.Velocity.Y, 0)).Magnitude
			local Rate = (script.Parent.Humanoid.WalkSpeed/2.5)/Moving
			local Walking = Moving > 1 and Humanoid.FloorMaterial ~= Enum.Material.Air
			
			if Walking or Humanoid:GetState() == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing then
				local Name = "Brick"
				if math.abs(HumanoidRootPart.Velocity.Y) > 0.1 and Humanoid:GetState() == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing then
					Name = "Ladder"

					coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
						local Material_Folder = Sounds:WaitForChild("Ladder"):Clone()
						local Sound = Material_Folder:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #Material_Folder:GetChildren())]:Clone()
						Sound.Parent = HumanoidRootPart
						Sound.Name = Sound.Name
						Sound.PlaybackSpeed = Sound.PlaybackSpeed + math.random(-20, 30)/100
						Sound.Name = Sound.Name .. " (Server Playing)"
						Sound:Play()
						game:GetService(Sound, Sound.TimeLength + 0.1)
						Debris:AddItem(Sound, 1)
					end))
				elseif Walking and Humanoid:GetState() ~= Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing then
					if Sounds:FindFirstChild(Humanoid.FloorMaterial.Name) then
						Name = Humanoid.FloorMaterial.Name
					else
						Name = "Brick"
					end

					coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
						local Material_Folder = Sounds:WaitForChild(Name):Clone()
						local Sound = Material_Folder:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #Material_Folder:GetChildren())]:Clone()
						Sound.Parent = HumanoidRootPart
						Sound.Name = Sound.Name .. " (Server Playing)"
						Sound.PlaybackSpeed = Sound.PlaybackSpeed + math.random(-20, 30)/100
						Sound:Play()
						game:GetService(Sound, Sound.TimeLength + 0.1)
						Debris:AddItem(Sound, 1)
					end))
				end
			end
			
			if Walking then
				wait(Rate)
			elseif Humanoid:GetState() == Enum.HumanoidStateType.Climbing then
				local Climb_Rate = (StarterPlayer.CharacterWalkSpeed/3)/math.abs(Climbing_Speed) * 1
				wait(Climb_Rate)
			else
				wait()
			end
		end

and here you can test the system itself: bloodfest [1v] - Roblox

can anyone tell me how to fix this?

#2

play the sound on your client and replicate it via a remoteevent (mute it for yourself on server)

#3

also use task.wait instead of wait

#4

Seems like an old code.

I think you should edit your walk-climb animations and use KeyFrameReached with custom keyframe names like RightLegDown, LeftLegDown to play the sounds on certain animation frames, that should be more consistent. If you want to replicate it to server, use remote events with some sanity checks for spam.

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#5

hmm, I tried using task.wait and it didn’t help, by the way I forgot to say that this is a server script