touch event makes one enemy makes me lose x18 times

[uncut sandal]

i was making a tower defense game, the base got 3 hp (each went down by 1 if an enemy touches the base) when one enemy walks in my base and triggers the touched event 18 times please help

i think i posted way too much of these help posts..

[pastel solstice]

put some cooldown on it

or make a table that saves the enemy and check to make sure that the same enemy doesnt hit twice

[uncut sandal]

if multiple enemies walks into the base, few of the enemies will not be destroyed and execute the touch script (idk how)

ill just demonstrate rq

wait wha i added task.wait for the touched event kept executing continuously

[pastel solstice]

just putting task.wait doesnt stop the event from firing again

you need debounce

[uncut sandal]

here

[maiden ledge]

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[uncut sandal]

i put the timer to 10 to uhh

yk

imagine if multitple enemies folded into one place doesnt it just do the bug inside the video

[peak heart]

you're applying your debounce too broadly

you have it so that if an enemy touches the brick 10 seconds have to pass before another enemy touching it is valid

you can use a table to track whether an enemy has touched the brick before and that could be your debounce

[cinder hare]

so for my game you can pick up balls and to make sure players dont fire the OnTouch multiple times i use debounce with a key

local key = player.UserId .. "-" .. trashType
  if not debounce[key] then -- if debounce isnt set  
    debounce[key] = true -- set debounce
    local PlayerData = PlayerStore.GetData(player) -- get playerdata
    local TrashAmount = PlayerData.trash -- get trash
    if TrashAmount >= PlayerData.maxCapacity then -- if their trash is at max
      debounce[key] = nil -- Clear debounce immediately if at capacity
    return
  end

the key has their userID since its unique to the player and then trashType which has 3 different types

this method has worked well for me you could try that, that way it stores the object and player so it wont fire more then once

[uncut sandal]

Okay so ive never heard about pkayerdata or .getdata or anything similar to that i think ill learn what it is first then ill come back here

[cinder hare]

PlayerData is a variable i made to get the data from my data base
GetData is just a function i made to return a players data
im using profile store by loleris

for what your after you dont need that though, you just need to look into using a debounce

[uncut sandal]

this line here

im confused is it just mean that if debounce == false or debounce == nil??

[uncut sandal]

is that a thing??

how can i do it

[peak heart]

yeah just think a little bit more abstract about debounce

create a table

when an enemy touches the brick, check if the enemy is found inside the table

if not insert them in the table and continue

that way the code will only run once for each enemy

[uncut sandal]

are there any examples?

i just asked chatgpt is it what you mean?

[cinder hare]

So in if statements you can use false or nil

False just means there is a value and it's false
Nil means there is no value

[cinder hare]

This looks good the idea is

If you just added a debounce with a timer then timing it with the enemies would be hard

So instead you do a debounce but with specific enemies
So if EnemyA touching your part he can not fire it again

But EnemyB is able to immedialty

How you do that is how you have
Stick them in a table if they have
And add a check

[uncut sandal]

i added that deboucne script but it still doesnt work

[uncut sandal]

i lowk just copied the internet and see that people just not do if the enemies touches the base, they just do a bindable when enemies waypoint value = nil it will just send the value to the base

no more :touched

(i dont understand a single of that script)