Help with animating properties

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#1

Hope I’m not being too annoying with how much I’m on here…

I’m making a “power surge” function in my game. When a certain value is reached, all the lights will rise in brightness and volume before a blackout. How would I tween (or use any other method) things such as the brightness property of a light or audio?
Very new to scripting, there are lots of commands I don’t even know exist. Could whoever answers please explain in more detailed steps how to work this out for future reference? Thanks a lot.

#2

Use TweenService.
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/TweenService
It can tween pretty much anything apart from bool values.
I seem to remember using it for Volume so idk if the service got updated because it says on the page that it cant tween numbers

#3

Let me study up on TweenService, I’ll see if it works.
Thanks!

#4

New problem. I’ve worked out a tween for changing the brightness of the light. It doesn’t work whatsoever. Is there something wrong with this coding or is “Brightness” not even a property to be tweened?

local surge = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Values"):WaitForChild("SURGE")
local light = script.Parent
local buzz = script.Parent.Parent.Buzz

if surge.Value >= 1000 then
	local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
	local info = TweenInfo.new(
		9,
		Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
		Enum.EasingDirection.Out,
		0,
		false,
		0
	)
	
	local goals =
	{
		Brightness = 4;
	}
	
	local LightBloom = TweenService:Create(light, info, goals)
	
	LightBloom:Play()
end
#5

You may want to add a call to print inside the if statement’s body as the following condition may not be satisfied.

if surge.Value >= 1000 then
#6

First , why are you making a TweenService vatiable inside the if statement and not on top?( where all variables/services are).

Second, try to print out some stuff to see what happens/ whats wrong.

#7

Nothing I try to print in this script (inside if-then) ends up in output. But there is no error message correlating with anything either.

#8

Are you using a local script for this?

#9

No, this is a regular script. Shouldn’t it be like that so everyone experiences the event?

#10

I thought you were using a local script because nothing was printing in the output.
It might be that the if statement isn’t even running, because the value is not high enough.

#11

Finally realized the problem with everything. It’s the if then command itself! The tween works fine without it, but how am I supposed to only have it activate by IntValue?

#12

GOT IT!
I was supposed to use surge.Changed:Connect(function() before introducing the if then command. Now everything works dandy! Way to go, me.