Activate local script

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#1

What i want to achieve is disabling a local script through a normal script and reEnabling the local script, how would i do that?
i tried doing this:

game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacterScripts.CamShakerCar.enabled = true --enabling the local script
game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacterScripts.CamShakerCar.enabled = false --disabling the local script

And ive also tried RemoteEvents but i couldn’t get it to work.
i have also read multiple devforum posts but they did not fix my problem.
Can anyone help me?
i’d be very happy to have a solution.

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#3

I think it’s because you used “enabled” in a wrong form? Isn’t it? I think i may be wrong, but here it is:

game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacterScripts.CamShakerCar.Enabled = true --enabling the local script
game.StarterPlayer.StarterCharacterScripts.CamShakerCar.Enabled = false --disabling the local script
#4

No i have tried that too, doesn’t work.

#5

because Server Scripts can’t access StarterCharacterScripts. That’s a Local thing.

Try putting the local script in StarterGui (try to replace all positions of the script to that) and then put this:

game.StarterGui.CamShakerCar.Enabled = true --enabling the local script
game.StarterGui.CamShakerCar.Enabled = false --disabling the local script

And try to make so the local script’s source have anything to do with the character (i see you wanted it to do with the character)

#6

You’re directly disabling the script from the StarterCharacterScript, which will not apply for those who have been already copied to active characters.

The script in StarterCharacterScripts is basically a template that will be cloned into every character. Meaning disabling it or enabling will not apply for characters that already have the script.

#7

Oh he meant that?

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#8

Assuming so. There are no issues in the script, so assumed that.

#9

i have now tried that but it does not work too.

#10

Why would you need to disable and then enable the script?

#11

Also, I believe the correct property is .Disabled

#12

Maybe try game.Players:WaitForChild(ThePlayersName).PlayerScripts.CamShakerCar.Enabled = false
Like someone else above me said, StarterPlayer just replicates all of the scripts to the player.

#13

I just checked and it is .Enabled

#14

Because i have a ProximityPrompt in a part, and when i press it, it works as a car horn

local ProximityPrompt = script.Parent.ProximityPrompt
local CarHornSound = script.Parent.Horn

ProximityPrompt.PromptButtonHoldBegan:Connect(function()
	CarHornSound:Play()
	local Triggered = false
	print("Player is holding the prompt") -- Holding the prompt so the car horn will play, hold duration is infinite

	local abc = ProximityPrompt.PromptButtonHoldEnded:Once(function()
		task.wait()
		if Triggered then
			
			CarHornSound:Stop() -- Ignore this
		else
		print("Player let go of prompt")
			CarHornSound:Stop() --Player let go of prompt
		end    
	end)
	local abcd = ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Once(function()
		Triggered = true
	end)
end)

and heres the local script that should get activated if the prompt is being held




game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function()

	if game.Workspace.Car.Body:FindFirstChild("ProxPromptTest") then
		
		local intensity = 25
		local range = 55

		local dist = game.Players.LocalPlayer:DistanceFromCharacter(game.Workspace.Car.Body:FindFirstChild("ProxPromptTest").Position)


		local cam = workspace.Camera
		
		local clamp = math.clamp(1 + (intensity - 0.1)*(1-(dist/range)), 0.1, intensity)

		cam.CFrame *= CFrame.Angles(math.random(1 - clamp, clamp) / 500, math.random(1 - clamp, clamp) / 500, math.random(1 - clamp, clamp) / 500)
		game:GetService('TweenService'):Create(game.Workspace.Camera,TweenInfo.new(0.2,Enum.EasingStyle.Quint,Enum.EasingDirection.Out,0,false,0),{CFrame = cam.CFrame*CFrame.Angles(0,0,math.rad(math.random(-clamp/2, clamp/2)))}):Play()
		game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid.CameraOffset = Vector3.new(math.random(1 - clamp, clamp / 20), math.random(1 - clamp, clamp / 20), math.random(0 - clamp, clamp / 15)) / 55
		
	else
		
		print('where is it')
		
	end
	end)
#15

You should be able to call :BindToRenderStep() when the prompt is triggered and then call :UnbindFromRenderStep() on .TriggerEnded.

#16

How would that work with disabling and enabling the localscript

#17

You shouldn’t need to disable the script.

#18

But i want to make the screen shake when the prompt is being held (sorry if im a bit stupid)

#19

Make the local script a function and use a remote events to call the bind and unbind renderstep methods from the main script.

#20

I don’t really know how to do that im not really good or far in scripting

#21

Sounds pretty simple, but did you try using :WaitForChild()? If this code is running right when the game loads there’s a chance the script just hasn’t loaded yet.