How do I make a light follow a player

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#1

I need help with my code I don’t know how to fix this I’m new to scripting and I’m trying to make a light follow the player

  1. What do you want to achieve? I want to make a light follow the player

  2. What is the issue? I don’t know what is wrong with my code I couldn’t upload the video it was stuck at 86%

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? I looked for posts about this on the devforum but couldn’t find any

local light = script.SpotLight
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local aaa light:Clone(player.Head)

if aaa.Parent = Head then
	print("test")
end

I am just going to do something else because I found an easier way to do it but thanks Kaid3n22 for helping

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#2

2 errors here.

  1. it should be local aaa =
  2. head is not a child of player. it is a child of player.Character. Also, parenting it would be on a different line.
local light = script.SpotLight
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
	local aaa = light:Clone()
	aaa.Parent = char.Head

	if aaa.Parent = char.Head then
		print("test")
	end
end)

Also, put this in a CharacterAdded function so it will do it when the player spawns.

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#3

you must put a spawn and deny the cancollide and transparency remove the decal and put a script


and then in the script you put this:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
if Hit.Parent:FindFirstChild(“Humanoid”) then
light = Instance.new(‘PointLight’)
light.Parent = Hit.Parent.Head
end
end)


And if it’s horror like a story, you put it to teleport the players to spawn and that’s it
Good luck

#4

This is not very correct to do.

#5

why not? it works what is the problem?

#6

Whenever the player touched the spawner a new light would be added to it, ie a bunch of instances would be created, resulting in lag

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#7

read these articles:

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Player/Character

When you finish reading everything, you will have already learned how to make this script.
Note: you don’t need to read everything

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