Loop isn't working

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So I’m a beginner scripter with about six months of experience by now, and I decided to write my very first code all by myself without a tutorial. Hurray!

So I decided that when a person touches this alarm brick thing, the lights flash red and white. When that specific person dies, then everything goes back to normal.

So I test it and everything is working except that the lights aren’t flashing. They flash once and then they stop. Here’s that bit:

repeat
 wait(0.5)
 securitylite.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
 securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
 wait(0.5)
 securitylite.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
 securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
until player.Humanoid.Died

The variables are working for sure. This is in a bigger function, and everything else works. I know that this is the only bit that doesn’t work.

Thank you for anyone who replies and, no, there is nothing in the output.

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Well I would use “for” or “while true do” for loops, I used “for” in my first script alone

While true do
script
end

“Any name” " how much times u want to repeat"
for I = 1, 100 do

script

end

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I want the lights to keep flashing until the person dies. I don’t know if I made that clear.

I did try “while not do” and added a wait (0.5) at the end, the lights didn’t even flash once.

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@NoodleCrystalHaden10, Perhaps this could work to replace that bit of code (repeat until can be iffy):

while player.Character.Humanoid.Died == false do
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
end

Also, I noticed you did player.Humanoid.Died, even though Humanoid is inside of the player’s Character. Assuming your player variable is the player object, you’ll want to do player.Character.Humanoid, not player.Humanoid.

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The “player” variable is actually the physical part. The one in Workspace, not Players (is it PlayerService?) So the format would go; game.Workspace. (here is the player). Humanoid (there’s no character before it)

I’m sorry, I tried it, didn’t flash once.

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Ah okay.

Could you try placing two print()'s in your code? One right before the loop, and one at the beginning of it. Like this:

print("First")
while player.Character.Humanoid.Died == false do
    print("Second")
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
end

Let which one(s) print.

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Okay, I’ll try it. I’ll let you know.

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“first” prints, but “second” doesn’t print.

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I just realized what the problem is. Humanoid.Died is an event, not something that returns a boolean value. Thus, if you want to check if the player is still alive, you can do it directly by checking their health. Here’s the new code:

print("First")
while player.Character.Humanoid.Health > 0 do
    print("Second")
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(170,0,0)
    wait(0.5)
    securitylite.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
    securityliteB.Color = Color3.new(255,255,255)
end
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Congratulations on getting the solution! I just needed to take the character bit out making it player.Humanoid.Health but thank you!!!

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Just make a for loop. They are a lot less glitchy.