I'm trying to make a sound play once, and then stop and not play again. Is this possible?
I'm making a scary game, and I'm trying to make it so that once the player goes back inside the house, they'll walk over an invisible brick which will play a sound, and I only want the sound to play once and then stop and not play again. I'm very new to scripting, and I can't find any tutorials online.
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What we use to only allow something to run once, or only allow it to run once every x amount of seconds, is known as "debounce". A debounce can be any if statement that the script has to run before executing the rest of it. For example, if you have a variable in the part, you can do this.
1 | script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit) |
2 | if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and script.Parent.HasPlayed.Value == false then |
3 | -- play the sound |
4 | script.Parent.HasPlayed.Value = true |
5 | --[[since this value is true, it will never make it through the if statement again |
6 | unless you change it back to false.]] |
7 | end |
8 | end) |
You can also use debounce as a variable, however in your case the BoolValue would be much more effective if this is a single player game. The variable would look like this:
1 | local debounce = false |
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3 | script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit) |
4 | if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and debounce == false then |
5 | --play sound |
6 | debounce = true |
7 | end |
8 | end) |
Hope this helped.
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I usually do this for example:
1 | script.Parent.Sound:Play() -- it only plays once |
You would have to set this to loop to play over and over. It's actually very simple! All it does is play it and then do nothing.
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