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Delay for pressing E on a tool + GUI?

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3 years ago

Hello! I'm making a tool and it plays an animation when pressing E. How can I set a custom delay and make a gui to show that delay?

When I press E, I want the player to have a 5 second delay to press E once again, and show in a gui a second delay or a bar that decreases (Like you'd see in games like Blox Fruit)

Here's the script for my E script (inside the tool)

01local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Tool = script.Parent 
03 
04local mouse = player:GetMouse()
05 
06local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
07local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
08 
09repeat wait(1) until player.Character
10 
11local character = player.Character
12local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
13 
14local AnimE = Instance.new("Animation")
15AnimE.Name = "AnimE"
16AnimE.Parent = script.Parent
17 
18AnimE.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=" .. "6757120886"
19local animEtrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimE)
20 
21mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
22    if key == "e" then
23        animEtrack:Play()
24    end
25end)
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Answered by

Spjureeedd 385

3 years ago

Edited 3 years ago

I suppose you know how to use debounces? To start I'll add a debounce for you.

01local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Tool = script.Parent 
03 
04local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
05local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
06 
07local debounce = false -- New variable
08local waitTime = 5 -- New variable
09 
10local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
11local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
12 
13local AnimE = Instance.new("Animation")
14AnimE.Name = "AnimE"
15AnimE.Parent = script.Parent
16 
17AnimE.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6757120886" -- You can do the whole link at once.
18local animEtrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimE)
19 
20UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, gameProcessed)
21    if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E and not gameProcessed and not debounce then
22        debounce = true
23        animEtrack:Play()
24 
25        wait(waitTime)
26        debounce = false
27    end
28end)
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Here is a page about debounces on Roblox's Developer page. So this code makes you able to only play the animation every 5 seconds. And we use UserInputService to get the keypress as well as the gameProcessed Parameter instead of mouse.

Now if you want a Gui to shrink or something like that to indicate the time, then you could tween it. So now I will just assume you have a Gui Frame that you want to tween.

01local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Tool = script.Parent 
03 
04local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
05local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
06 
07local debounce = false -- New variable
08local waitTime = 5 -- New variable
09local frame = player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui").FrameToTween -- Set this path to your Frame
10 
11local function debounceToFalse(didComplete) -- New function
12    if didComplete then
13        debounce = false
14    else
15        print("Something went wrong")
16    end
17end
18 
19local character = player.Character
20local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
21 
22local AnimE = Instance.new("Animation")
23AnimE.Name = "AnimE"
24AnimE.Parent = script.Parent
25 
26AnimE.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=6757120886" -- You can do the whole link at once.
27local animEtrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimE)
28 
29UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(key, gameProcessed)
30    if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E and not gameProcessed and not debounce then
31        debounce = true
32        animEtrack:Play()
33        frame.Size = UDim2.new(0, 0, 0, 50)
34 
35        frame:TweenSize(
36            UDim2.new(0, 100, 0, 50),
37            Enum.EasingDirection.In,
38            Enum.EasingStyle.Linear,
39            waitTime,
40            true,
41            debounceToFalse
42        )
43    end
44end)
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And here is a link to a page about tweening the size of Gui Objects.

I hope this helped! Please comment if there is anything you're wondering or something that isn't working.

Hey! The frame doesn't seem to reduce it's size and the animation doesn't seem to play, is there anything wrong with what I made? I put my frame and also, there's Udim2 but it should be UDim2, can't seem to fix it qMrSpooky 20 — 3y

I mean I tried changing the UDim2 back and forth (capital letter for D and lowersized) or tried changing my Frame or something, but it still doesn't work qMrSpooky 20 — 3y

Yes of course sorry, it should be UDim2.new() Spjureeedd 385 — 3y

Do you get any errors? Spjureeedd 385 — 3y

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I updated the script after trying it myself. Now this version works for the gui, just make sure you set the path of the variable correctly with all names and such. I don't know why your animation doesn't work though. Nothing happened when I tried and I even printed ananimEtrack.IsPlaying to see if it was playing, and it returned true, so I don't know what's wrong Spjureeedd 385 — 3y

It only works for an animation that you created, I thinnk. qMrSpooky 20 — 3y

Answered by

MattVSNNL 620

3 years ago

Try this

01local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Tool = script.Parent 
03 
04local mouse = player:GetMouse()
05 
06local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
07local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
08 
09repeat wait(1) until player.Character
10 
11local character = player.Character
12local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
13 
14local AnimE = Instance.new("Animation")
15AnimE.Name = "AnimE"
16AnimE.Parent = script.Parent
17 
18AnimE.AnimationId = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=" .. "6757120886"
19local animEtrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(AnimE)
20 
21local debounce = false
22 
23UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(key)
24    if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.E then
25        if debounce == false then
26            debounce = true
27            animEtrack:Play()
28 
29            wait(3) -- Amount of time you want to wait until they are done
30 
31            debounce = false
32 
33        end
34    end
35end)
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This fixed 80% of my problems. Question is, how do I put that delay to display in a GUI? qMrSpooky 20 — 3y

Make a Gui and make a Timer for 3 seconds and make that fire when the delay is happening MattVSNNL 620 — 3y

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