What's the Best Way to Debounce a Continuous Brush Tool?

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1

I have this problem where my time is just too fast and it runs twice and too slow that it’s not continuous to brush…
In context I am making a brush tool for a game of life that allows me to draw dead or alive cell on it and whenever it hits something it will add a population or kill it
This is my code

local Brush = script.Parent
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local Character:Model = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local collectionservice = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
local maxdistance = 100

local ChangeColor = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:WaitForChild("ChangeColor")
local PopulationEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:WaitForChild("Population/Generation")

local Toggle = Player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Toggle")
local Button = Toggle.Frame.TextButton
local Alive = true

local lastPaintTime = 0
local debounceInterval = 0.035

local holding = false

local color:Color3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
local AddPopulation:number = 0




Button.Activated:Connect(function()
	if Alive then
		Alive = false
		color = Color3.new(0,0,0)
		Button.Text = "Dead"
		Button.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
		Button.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0)
		print(Alive,color)
	else
		Alive = true
		color = Color3.new(1,1,1)
		Button.Text = "Alive"
		Button.TextColor3 = Color3.new(0,0,0)
		Button.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(1,1,1)
	end
end)
Brush.Equipped:Connect(function()
	

	Toggle.Enabled = true
	

	
	
	
	Mouse.Button1Down:Connect(function()
		holding = true
		while holding do
			task.wait()
			
			-- POSITIONS
			local Head:BasePart = Character:WaitForChild("Head")
			local HeadPos = Head.Position
			local MousePos = Mouse.Hit.Position
			local direction = (MousePos - HeadPos).Unit * 100

			--RAYCASTING
			local rayCastParams = RaycastParams.new()
			rayCastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {Character}
			rayCastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist

			local result = workspace:Raycast(HeadPos,direction,rayCastParams)


			-- VALIDATING
			if result then
				local hitpart:Part = result.Instance
				if collectionservice:HasTag(hitpart,"Box") and hitpart.Color ~= color then
					local now = os.clock()
					if now - lastPaintTime >= debounceInterval then
						lastPaintTime = now

						if color == Color3.new(1,1,1) then
							AddPopulation += 1
						else
							AddPopulation -= 1
						end

						local row, col = hitpart:GetAttribute("Row"), hitpart:GetAttribute("Col")
						ChangeColor:FireServer(hitpart,row,col,color)
						PopulationEvent:FireServer(AddPopulation)
						AddPopulation = 0
					end
				end
			end
			
		end
	end)
	
	Mouse.Button1Up:Connect(function()
		holding = false
	end)
end)

Brush.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	Toggle.Enabled = false
end)
2

I haven’t read your code yet, but when I try to add debounce, what I try to do is that I immediately set my debounce to false right after a function is ran, sorta like this;

local debounce = true
local myfunction = function()
    if debounce then
        debounce = false
        --Function things here
        debounce = true
    end
end