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How to make my gun stop shooting when not holding M1?

Asked by 1 year ago

I made a script to shoot a gun in a very simple way, being automatic for my M4A1 and a upcoming project however when not holding mouse1 it keeps shooting. Here is my code:

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse() -- mouse varible

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function() --connects the function
    wait(0.1) -- the wait time between each shot
    while true do -- my way of looping it 
        wait(0.08)
        script.Parent.Fire:FireServer(mouse.Hit.Position) --fires to server
        wait(0.08)
    end
    wait(0.1)
end)


I'm only showing the local script since that is what checks to see if mouse1 is down. I think its beacuse of "while true do" and I know there are many better ways of looping but I have no idea how to do them. Does "while true do" mean while the script is TRUE (enabled) or the function is happening? I tried a few things:

  1. I changed "while true do" to "while mouse.button1down == true do"

  2. I added :

while true do
if mouse.button1down then
--Rest of the code

but for some reason while trying nr. 2. i got this error: "Expected identifer got ")"" And with nr. 1. it didn't shoot at all. Thanks.

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I wouldn't use the old mouse functions/events from the LocalPlayer. Use UserInputService. namespace25 594 — 1y

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Answered by 1 year ago
Edited 1 year ago

This assumes you have basic knowledge of UserInputService

Use a variable.

In a local script,

local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local mouseDown = false

-- Detect when mouse button 1 is pressed
userInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
        mouseDown = true
    end
end)

-- And the inverse
userInputService.InputEnded:Connect(function(input)
    if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
        mouseDown = false
    end
end)

Then you may use your while loop like this

while mouseDown == true do
    -- fire gun
    task.wait(0.06) -- Better version of wait(). Should be used in place of wait() in all cases.
end

I would, however, also make a cooldown for your gun. In its current state, if you keep pressing the mouse and holding it down, it will spawn multiple while do loops and shoot at an undesired rate.

To circumvent,

local cooldown = false

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function()
    if cooldown == true then return end
    cooldown = true

    task.spawn(function() -- A new thread is necessary since the while loop will yield until the mouse button is released.
        task.wait(0.08)
        cooldown = false
    end)

    while mouseDown == true do
        -- fire gun
        task.wait(0.08)
    end
end)

I've made many gun systems before and these are the tactics I use. I wrote all of this here on the website so if there's any errors, just reply and I'll fix them.

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Thanks for that, however when I try to run it it just does not fire at all no damage no nothing, I will try without cooldown Hektorj3 3 — 1y
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I used print("tEST") to check if it is working, but its not the while loop isn't going through, I will try rewriting the script Hektorj3 3 — 1y
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It seems like it can detect when i hold mouse when and letgo, it has to be with the variable somewhere or the while loop. Hektorj3 3 — 1y
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It does change from false to true however while mouseDown do never runs. Hektorj3 3 — 1y
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