Here is my beginners tutorial for street light scripts!
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!
Next insert a surface light in side of the part.
After that make sure to also insert a script in the part.
Make sure the Surface Light’s brightness is set to 0! Pro Tip: You can see where the light goes when you click on surface light in the part.
Nice job so far! Now we can go on to part 2! Here comes the scripting!
Part2
First we have these two lines.
What these two lines basically do is they constantly check of the clock time is less than or equal to 6.
After that line you will soon see this line.
This line sets the Surface Lights’s brightness to a specific number. I just put 16 for example. If you set it to 0 the Surface Light will not emit any lights.
After that line you will see a .
If the Clock time you saw earlier is not less the or equal to the set time it will, then it will go on to else instead of just ending the script.
After that else you will see a wild !
This basically sets the Surface Light’s brightness to 0 which makes it emit no light.
Finally you will see this .
The wait(0.3) Just adds a delay before re-reading the script. Making this delay set to nothing can start some lag so be aware! Then it ends here!
Notes
This tutorial is ment for beginner scripters so dont worry you can modify all the numbers listed here!
Numbers
Also this is written in a normal script not a local script!
To change the clock time by the way, you can do it by going to lighting>clocktime
Heres a image of it.
In the future, you probably don’t want to use a while loop to check if property changes.
If you want to do something when a property changes there’s always :GetPropertyChangedSignal.
So in the case of this script you can do something like this
local lighting = game:GetService("Lighting")
lighting:GetPropertyChangedSignal("ClockTime"):Connect(function()
if 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
end)
Hello, since I’m begginer scripter I have a question. Why do you use script.Parent, you are doing this just to don’t use this: game.Workspace.Part.SurfaceLight, if no then why you are using script.Parent?
Although this is a very neat tutorial I personally don’t suggest doing this method entirely such as
While true do loops
You aren’t checking if the time is +18 or -6, Basically telling the script to only run when the time strikes 12 - 6 am
Instead of easily updating all the objects with one script you have every object contain a script, I personally don’t suggest having any scripts in the workspace but that’s just how I was taught by my brother.
What you’ll need
For my suggested tutorial on this, you’ll need a few basic things
Install the plugin called Tag Editor and use it to add a Tag to all your street light objects.
You can call your newly created tag whatever you please just remember to update the name in Settings.TagName
After we have all our objects tagged we can continue to the next step!
Into the Editor
Open the newly created script you made inside ServerScriptService and start with your variables.
local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local LightingService = game:GetService("Lighting")
local Settings = {
TagName = "StreetLights",
NightStart = 18,
DayStart = 6,
}
These will help assist us later in our code.
Next, we’ll need to have it update our lights whenever the time changes.
Only having our Function update helps with performance since your not running a thread constantly.
First, we need to create our function to identify light objects of any kind.
This will return us the light source we need, If it doesn’t find anything it’ll return nil.
local function FindLight(Object: Instance):Instance
return Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("SpotLight") or Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("SurfaceLight") or Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("PointLight")
end
Now let’s continue on to creating our function, this will handle everything.
function UpdateLights() -- Our function we will use to handle everything.
end
Now a function alone won’t do anything, so we’ll need to loop through our CollectionService using GetTagged, This will return an array of objects that we can loop through to use to easily identify our StreetLight objects.
But if we just change values all willy nilly without knowing what it is that might cause us some errors, So we will have to check if its a BasePart
function UpdateLights()
for _, Light in ipairs(CollectionService:GetTagged(Settings.TagName)) do
if Light:IsA("BasePart") then
end
end
end
But that in itself does nothing except check if it’s a part of some type? So now we’ll need to go on checking the time and updating the objects we got from CollectionService
function UpdateLights()
for _, Light in ipairs(CollectionService:GetTagged(Settings.TagName)) do
if Light:IsA("BasePart") then
if LightingService.ClockTime > Settings.NightStart or LightingService.ClockTime < Settings.DayStart then
local LightInstance = FindLight(Light)
Light.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
if LightInstance ~= nil then
LightInstance.Enabled = true
end
else
local LightInstance = FindLight(Light)
Light.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
if LightInstance ~= nil then
LightInstance.Enabled = false
end
end
end
end
end
But its a shame our script only runs once
So let’s change that but connecting our function to LightingChanged
local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local LightingService = game:GetService("Lighting")
local Settings = {
TagName = "StreetLights",
NightStart = 18,
DayStart = 6,
}
local function FindLight(Object: Instance):Instance
return Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("SpotLight") or Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("SurfaceLight") or Object:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("PointLight")
end
function UpdateLights()
for _, Light in ipairs(CollectionService:GetTagged(Settings.TagName)) do
if Light:IsA("BasePart") then
if LightingService.ClockTime > Settings.NightStart or LightingService.ClockTime < Settings.DayStart then
local LightInstance = FindLight(Light)
Light.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
if LightInstance ~= nil then
LightInstance.Enabled = true
end
else
local LightInstance = FindLight(Light)
Light.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
if LightInstance ~= nil then
LightInstance.Enabled = false
end
end
end
end
end
LightingService.LightingChanged:Connect(UpdateLights)
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