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Making a cool down and exploding the Fireball when it hits something?

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5 years ago

I'm making a power up, you shoot a "Fireball" out of the player and into the workspace. I want to see how I could make it so that when the "Fireball hits something it explodes, but after 60 seconds if the "Fireball" didn't hit anything it just is destroyed. And also on how to make a cool down. I've tried these things out but they didn't work.

Here's the script

01local Plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Mouse = Plr:GetMouse()
03local Ammo = 1
04Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
05    key = key:lower()
06    if key =="f" then
07        print("F has been pressed!")
08 
09    local FireBall = Instance.new("Part")
10    FireBall.Shape = "Ball"
11    FireBall.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Maroon")
12    FireBall.Transparency = 0.5
13    FireBall.TopSurface = "Smooth"
14    FireBall.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
15    local Fire = Instance.new("Fire")
16    Fire.Parent = FireBall
17    FireBall.CFrame = Plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,-6)    
18    local BodyVelocity = Instance.new("BodyVelocity")
19    BodyVelocity.Velocity = Plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * 90
20    BodyVelocity.MaxForce = Vector3.new(math.huge, math.huge, math.huge)
21    BodyVelocity.Parent = FireBall
22    local Explosion = Instance.new("Explosion")
23     FireBall.Parent = workspace
24Ammo = Ammo - 1
25wait(3)
26Ammo = 1
27 
28wait(1)
29FireBall:Destroy()
30 
31    end
32 
33end)
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Don't use key down it's depreciated user userinput service mattchew1010 396 — 5y

and why are you getting your key press from the mouse Nickiel13 58 — 5y

im following a tutorial from 2 years ago CaptainGalexyCreeper 15 — 5y

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Answered by

DanzLua 2879

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

What I will do is create a touched event and destroy the fireball if it touches something (you can add your own code to deal with what to do with the hit in there) I will then add the fireball to the debris service so that it will only last for 60 seconds Afterwards it will wait for the fireball to be destroyed and then replenish the ammo variable.

I kept the cooldown of 3 seconds there.

01local Plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02local Mouse = Plr:GetMouse()
03local Ammo = 1
04Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
05    key = key:lower()
06    if key =="f" then
07        print("F has been pressed!")
08 
09    local FireBall = Instance.new("Part")
10    FireBall.Shape = "Ball"
11    FireBall.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Maroon")
12    FireBall.Transparency = 0.5
13    FireBall.TopSurface = "Smooth"
14    FireBall.BottomSurface = "Smooth"
15    local Fire = Instance.new("Fire")
16    Fire.Parent = FireBall
17    FireBall.CFrame = Plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,-6)    
18    local BodyVelocity = Instance.new("BodyVelocity")
19    BodyVelocity.Velocity = Plr.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * 90
20    BodyVelocity.MaxForce = Vector3.new(math.huge, math.huge, math.huge)
21    BodyVelocity.Parent = FireBall
22    local Explosion = Instance.new("Explosion")
23    --create touched event
24    FireBall.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
25        wait()
26        FireBall:Destroy()
27    end)
28    FireBall.Parent = workspace
29    --Add Fireball to debris (will be destroyed after 60 seconds)
30    game:GetService("Debris"):AddItem(FireBall,60)
31 
32    Ammo = Ammo - 1
33    --wait for fireball to be destroyed
34    while FireBall.Parent do
35        wait()
36    end
37 
38    --cooldown
39    wait(3)
40    Ammo = 1
41 
42    end
43 
44end)
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