How to make lights that dim and change color after a certain time of day?

[GreeneTM (toxicgreen)]

I have a surface light inside a part that is enabled at all times. I’m looking for a way to where after a certain time of day, the light will change color and change brightness, and then after another few hours have passes, AKA when morning comes, the lights revert back to their starting color.

[Bopthing1 (bop)]

if you mean in-game times, here is some code. you need to change the variables’ values in-order for this to work

local lightPart = [lightpart here] -- put your light part here(the part, not the light)
local light = [light source] --put your source: like a pointlight or spotlight
local lighting = game:GetService("Lighting") 

local startTime = [start time] --when the light changes brightness and other stuff
local endTime = [revert time] -- when the light reverts

lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
    if lighting.ClockTime >= startTime and lighting.ClockTime < endTime then
        -- change properties here
    else
        -- revert properties here
    end
end)

tell me if it works

[TortenSkjold]

Hi!

You’re missing a trigger-debounce, to make sure that the time only changes once, when it’s between a certain ClockTime, we wouldn’t want to try and change properties more than once, when it’s not needed.

local lightPart = [lightpart here] -- put your light part here(the part, not the light)
local light = [light source] --put your source: like a pointlight or spotlight
local lighting = game:GetService("Lighting") 

local NightPropertiesSet = false
local DayPropertiesSet = false

local startTime = [start time] --when the light changes brightness and other stuff
local endTime = [revert time] -- when the light reverts

lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
    if lighting.ClockTime >= startTime and lighting.ClockTime < endTime then
         if not DayPropertiesSet then
                DayPropertiesSet = true
                NightPropertiesSet = false
                -- set day properties here
        end
    else
         if not NightPropertiesSet then
                NightPropertiesSet = true
                DayPropertiesSet = false
                -- set night properties here
        end
    end
end)

[johncena12345678953]

Simple Street Light Script! [Beginners Tutorial]

Here is my beginners tutorial for street light scripts! [image] This script makes a parts light turn on depending on the time, acting like a street light. while true do if game.Lighting.ClockTime <=6 then --<= means less than or equal to 6 script.Parent.SurfaceLight.Brightness =16 --Light Brightness else script.Parent.SurfaceLight.Brightness =0 --Turns Off end task.wait(0.3)--Prevents Lag end Confused? Here I will explain.

Part1

First create a part in the workspace! [image] Ne…

Might be able to modify this to do so.

[no_tsi]

Adding onto this, I don’t recommend using while loops in a server script. You should handle all of this on the client, and use task.wait() as wait() is deprecated.

[GreeneTM (toxicgreen)]

This is too conflicting in my game because I already have enough parts and lights so changing the names and then changing the variable name would be too difficult, also I do not have the singlest idea as to where to put this script. I was looking for a script that i could paste into the actual SurfaceLight and have it change color and brightness depending on the time of day, specifically getting dimmer after 8pm and returning to normal at 7am.

[TortenSkjold]

You should not put a script into each surfacelight or so, this will cause more performance issues than the method I’ve shown above.

What you should do is making 1 “MainScript” for the day/night change-system, and then loop through all the object/values that you want changed.

[johncena12345678953]

I know, It’s just an old tutorial! I also would use property getchangedsignal

[Bopthing1 (bop)]

you can loop through all the dtreetlights and run the code on each one