Lights turning on at night and off in morning help

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#21

Ok theres no errors in the script that i see but when i go to test it it doesnt work and says this

LightPart is not a valid member of Part
Workspace.Map.TopSide.ParkingLot.ParkingLotLightParts.LightPart
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#22

Can you show the explorer tab of your folder, the parts, and the light object itself?

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#23

Yes1
It goes map then topside then parking lot then parking lot light parts then the parts then the spot lights.

#24

Where is your script located? And are all the light parts under “ParkinglotLightParts”?

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#25

Script is located in the Parking lot folder not the light part folder.

#26

Okay so edit your script to this:

local timetoturnon = 7 * 60 --multiply the hour to minute
local timetoturnon = 23*60 --same

game.Lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
     if game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() > timetoturnoff and game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() < timetoturnon then
         --so If time is currently after 7 am and before 23 o'clock the light will be off
         for _, v in pairs(script.Parent.Parkinglotlightparts:GetChildren()) do
              v.SpotLight.Enabled = false
         end
     else
             for _, v in pairs(script.Parent.Parkinglotlightparts:GetChildren()) do
                    v.SpotLight.Enabled = false
             end
     end
end)

Where you see “v.SpotLight.Enabled” is where the error was, you didn’t need to have “v.LightPart.Spotlight”, so we just took out “LightPart” since v is LightPart.

Edit: Not sure why my formatting isn’t working for the code but copy from the first “local” to the last “end)” Edit2: Never mind, got it to work.

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#27

Yes!! It finally works i just changed the v.lightpart.spotlight to just v.spotlight and it worked! Thank you so much!
Also this is irrelevant but how did u learn to script?

#28

Hooray!

Don’t want to get too off topic here but I learned using the Roblox API Documentation as well as Youtube videos for beginning scripting. This is a pretty good playlist: Alvin Blox’s beginner scripting tutorials. This is what I used a lot, and there is an advanced tutorial on his channel as well for once you finish the beginner series: TheDevKing’s beginner scripting series.

I wish you the best of luck on learning, have a good one!

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#29

How is your scripting journey coming along?