Reload/Wait Problem

Questions & Answers
1

I am in the process of making a game where the player uses a spell from a wand, however I want there to be a cooldown in between shots. The problem is that cool down works for the first shot, but after that the player can spam fire and shoot all they want. I cannot seem to fix the problem. Script is included below.

var ShootSpeed : float = 10;
var projectile : Rigidbody;
var shoot : float = 1;
var wand : GameObject;
var canShoot : boolean = true;

function Update () {
	if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1") && canShoot == true){
		Charge();
		canShoot = false;
		
	}
	if(canShoot == false){
	CoolDown();
	}
}
function Shoot(){
	var clone : Rigidbody;
	
	clone = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, transform.rotation);
	
	clone.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward * ShootSpeed);
	
	clone.transform.parent = null;
	
}

function Charge(){
	wand.animation.Play("WandCast");
	yield WaitForSeconds(.5835);
	Shoot();
	
}

function CoolDown(){
	
		yield WaitForSeconds(4.5);
		canShoot = true;
		Debug.Log("Done!");
}
2

I wonder if what’s happening is that CoolDown is continually getting called every frame (since canShoot is false) and then 4.5 seconds later turns on the ability to shoot. So almost every frame, after the first 4.5 seconds, canshoot is getting set to true.

My solution would be to add a second flag justShot:

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1") && canShoot){
       Charge();
       canShoot = false;
       justShot= true;

    }
    if(justShot){
        CoolDown();
        justShot=false;
    }

(justShot would start as ‘false’).

This way, once coolDown() is called it doesn’t get called again until the user shoots again.