Part not destroying locally after triggering flashlight proximity

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#1

Hello,

So I’m trying to make it so when you trigger the proximity prompt coming from the flashlight, this part which will serve as a barrier will break locally. I’m not that that that experienced with scripting and so I looked up how I could break parts locally and I used a LocalScript and from what I seen, it said that it can be used the same as a normal script? Didn’t really work out for me and so I need a little help.

Clip of what’s going on:

As you see, that part that I kept walking up to after triggering the proximity is the one that should’ve been destroyed locally. Not sure if I have to somehow use RemoteEvents for this or what, I don’t really specialize in scripting.

Here’s an error that I keep seeing relating to this:

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How things are set up:

Flashlight in Workspace
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Barrier part in Workspace
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LocalScript in StarterCharacterScripts
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The code inside the LocalScript

local proximity = game.Workspace.BasementFlashlight.ProximityPrompt
local barrier = game.Workspace.BasementBarrier

proximity.Triggered:Connect(function(var)
	proximity.Enabled = false
	barrier:Destroy()
end)

The LocalScript seems to not be doing anything right now too, not so sure what I’m doing wrong from here. Could it be the way I have things set up right now? Any who, I’d appreciate any help!

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#2

The error is that the script isn’t detecting the parts
Maybe try adding a wait in the beginning of the local script or use a WaitForChild()

#3

I do not believe that ProximityPrompt events fire locally and you may need to just use a server script to fire a client event to tell the client to destroy the barrier.

#4

Also, this is being done as a Starter character script which means its in workspace which is where local scripts don’t run at all. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

#5

How exactly would things look with this? I’ve been trying for the past 10 minutes and am a bit confused on how I’d go about it. Already made a RemoteEvent named “DestroyBarrierEvent” and put a server script inside the flashlight to try and fire it so the LocalScript can try to destroy the part on the client. I also looked at some other threads right now that could help but not much luck, a bit confusing for me as I don’t have much experience with scripting in calling RemoteEvents and such.

Here’s what the server script inside the flashlight looks like:

local proximity = script.Parent.ProximityPrompt
local barrier = game.Workspace.BasementBarrier
local plr = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter("")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remote = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("DestroyBarrierEvent")

proximity.Triggered:Connect(function(var)
	Remote:FireEvent(plr)
end)

The LocalScript

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local Remote = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("DestroyBarrierEvent")

local Barrier = game.Workspace.BasementBarrier

Remote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()

Barrier:Destroy()

end)

Also got a RemoteEvent called DestroyBarrierEvent.

Even though all of this I’m still getting the error of

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And this new one
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Not sure how it happened but what value should the object be set to?

I’d appreciate a bit more explanation for it.

#6

Hello, basically what your (normal) script (line 3) is searching “” this (aka nothing)

#7

I figured that out but what I’d like to know how is how could these 2 errors be fixed? I’ve tried so many times with different ways from what I could find but nothing works yet.