Cooldown on script not working as intended?
Hey guys, newbie scripter here. I'm making a cooking sandbox and stressful type of game, and I need someone to help with this simple script:
function CreatePlate(Position)
local Plate = Instance.new("Part")
Plate.Position = Position
Plate.Size = Vector3.new(4, 0.25, 4)
Plate.Color = Color3.new(0.944961, 0.94493, 0.944945)
Plate.Parent = workspace
task.wait(8)
end
script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
CreatePlate(Vector3.new(50, 0, 50))
end)
The create plate function works fine, but it has no cooldown on creating plates even if I put a task.wait(8) in my script. Can someone explain? It will be greatly appreciated!
1 answer
whenever you have a function in :Connect, it will always run apart from other code, your task.wait(8) won't affect rest of the code. what you want to do is called debounce, you will create a variable and whenever you press ClickDetector, you will set it to true, then after 8 seconds you will set it back to false, and the code will only create the plate if the variable is false.
local CreatePlateDebounce = false
function CreatePlate(Position)
local Plate = Instance.new("Part")
Plate.Position = Position
Plate.Size = Vector3.new(4, 0.25, 4)
Plate.Color = Color3.new(0.944961, 0.94493, 0.944945)
Plate.Parent = workspace
end
script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
-- not CreatePlateDebounce is same as CreatePlateDebounce == false in this case
if not CreatePlateDebounce then
CreatePlateDebounce = true
CreatePlate(Vector3.new(50, 0, 50))
task.wait(8)
CreatePlateDebounce = false
end
end)
now to demonstrate that :Connect does not affect rest of the code you can put a while true do loop in it:
script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
while true do
task.wait(0.1)
print("Hello, World!")
end
end)
after clicking more and more times you will notice your output get more and more flooded by Hello Worlds since all these :Connects are running together but apart from each other.
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