Blinking Light Effect Issues!

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

Hello yall, Immebest here, your scripting newbie. Today I was attempting to script a light bulb which basically changes material from plastic to neon when the tempreture or value in this case is above 7500 and the light goes out when its below 7500.

Basically, what I want is:

The bulb should go on and start blinking by changing materials when the tempreture is above 7500.

and stop blinking when the temp is below 7500.

Here is the script I tried, any help would be appriciated.

local Startup = game.Workspace.Values.Temp

function ChangeState()
	repeat
		script.Parent.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
		wait(0.5)
		script.Parent.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
		wait(0.5)
		script.Parent.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
	until Startup.Value < 7500
end

if Startup.Value >= 7500 then
	ChangeState()
end

Startup.Changed:connect(function(NewVal)
	if NewVal == true then
		ChangeState()
	end
end)

Thanks.

Edit 1: Startup(local) is the tempreture which it must be above to work. I was to lazy to change the start up local to another name like idk “tempreture”.

Edit 2: I am a noob at scripting, please try to explain my flaws as simple as possible. I may not understand you.

#2

For what I understood, “Startup” is an IntValue, right?
You cant compare a int value with “true”, that’s why the script will never enter this scope

I also don’t see where you’re changing the temperature value. I assume it should be in other script, right?

#3

Correct, sorry for the confusion this script was taken from a start up script that I made but I was too lazy to chance the start up as the local name.

So basically,

startup is the tempreture value.

and also I would like to add that, I just took the script from another devforum page but didnt learnt how it actually works so there is some obvious flaws that I may not understand, so I am a newbie so please try to explain this as plain as possible as you can.

#4

Basically, substitute this

for this

if NewVal >= 7500 then
    ChangeState()
end

Then you will be comparing the temperature number (NewVal) with an actual number (7500)

#5

So, what I need to do is change the newval to >=?

#6

Oh, that worked. Thank you very much!

1 Like
#7

No, I’ll try to explain better
When write:

if NewVal == true then

you are checking if the variable “NewVal” (a integer number) is equal to “true” (a boolean → Not a number), which doesn’t make sense. Instead, you need to compare it like this:

if NewVal >= 7500 then

that means: “Is NewVal greater or equal to 7500?”

1 Like