How to flicker a ton of lights with a simple script, all at once?

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#1

I’m trying to make a neon sign effect; so, flickering lights randomly, that sort of thing. It’s too many lights to have a script for each one.

I, v, in pairs, while it does in the end affect each of the lights, does it in a row. I’m looking for all the lights to go off at once, and then reoccur together.

The script below works, and it’s short and simple. It just makes all the lights turn off and on in a row; which isn’t what I’m looking for.

while true do
		for i, v in ipairs(game.Workspace.FlickeringLights:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Name == "Light" then
			v.Material = Enum.Material.CorrodedMetal
			wait(math.random(4,10)/10)
			v.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
			wait(math.random(4,10)/10)
		end
	end
end
#2

Idk if it will help, but try cycling through them all before you wait, then cycle through them all again.

Get the wait’s out from in between the individual lights.

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#3

something like this:

while true do
		for i, v in ipairs(game.Workspace.FlickeringLights:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Name == "Light" then
			v.Material = Enum.Material.CorrodedMetal
                 end
               end
		wait(math.random(4,10)/10)
               for i, v in ipairs(game.Workspace.FlickeringLights:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Name == "Light" then
                        v.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
		end
	end
	wait(math.random(4,10)/10)
end
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#4

Thanks, that seems to have fixed it!

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#5

Yeah i didn’t have all the ‘if’ and ‘end’ in the right place, but i guess you got it sorted.

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#6

You could put this script inside ReplicatedStorage and do something like this to clone that script into every light without having to manually insert it into every light, that’s pretty much one of the only options you have here.

for i, v (workspace.FlickeringLights:GetChildren()) do

		game.ReplicatedStorage.FlickerScript:Clone().Parent = v

end
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