Input not being detected

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#1

Hi! I’m currently making a lamp system and want to detect when the player presses T to toggle the lamp, but from my current code it isn’t even detecting the press. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

This script is a localscript in StarterGui.

local Trigger = game.ServerStorage.Triggers.Light
local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Enabled = false
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local humanoidRootPart = Player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

function letThereBeLight(humanoidRootPart)
	local light = Instance.new("PointLight")
	light.Parent = humanoidRootPart
	light.Brightness = 1
	light.Color = Color3.new(0.843137, 1, 0.796078)
	light.Enabled = true
	light.Range = 8
	light.Shadows = true
end

letThereBeLight(humanoidRootPart)

userInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, gameProcessedEvent)
	
	if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.T then
		print("you q pressed")
	end
	
end)
#2

Replace this line.

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(input, IsMessaging)
	if IsMessaging then return end
	if game:GetService("UserInputService"):IsKeyDown(Enum.KeyCode.T) then
		print("T was pressed!")
	end
end)
#3

Hi, for some reason it still isn’t detecting me pressing T for some reason?
(I’m spamming T in video below)

#4

Just delete that line. CharacterAdded signal has already been sent before the script is loaded so it’s hanging there.

#5

Try removing the if IsMessaging.

#6

For some reason it appears the script isn’t running at all as I added some prints to see where it was messing up and it isn’t running any of them.

local Trigger = game.ServerStorage.Triggers.Light
local Enabled = false
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local humanoidRootPart = Player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

print("hello")
function letThereBeLight()
	print("Function work")
	local light = Instance.new("PointLight")
	light.Parent = humanoidRootPart
	light.Brightness = 1
	light.Color = Color3.new(0.843137, 1, 0.796078)
	light.Enabled = true
	light.Range = 8
	light.Shadows = true
end
print("hello world")
letThereBeLight()
print("Hi")

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(input, IsMessaging)
	if IsMessaging then 
		return 
	end
	if game:GetService("UserInputService"):IsKeyDown(Enum.KeyCode.T) then
		print("T was pressed!")
	end
end)

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#7

The script isn’t running at all so I don’t know what’s happening.

#8

It’s stopping because it can’t find Triggers on line 1.
Delete that line and the script runs fine on my system.

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#9 
local Enabled = false
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local humanoidRootPart = Player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")

print("hello")
function letThereBeLight()
	print("Function work")
	local light = Instance.new("PointLight")
	light.Parent = humanoidRootPart
	light.Brightness = 1
	light.Color = Color3.new(0.843137, 1, 0.796078)
	light.Enabled = true
	light.Range = 8
	light.Shadows = true
end
print("hello world")
letThereBeLight()
print("Hi")

game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(input, IsMessaging)
	if IsMessaging then 
		return 
	end
	if game:GetService("UserInputService"):IsKeyDown(Enum.KeyCode.T) then
		print("T was pressed!")
	end
end)

Try this

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