Lately I have been working a lot with LocalScripts, and in my script it basically relies on these BoolValues I have made. However, when I set the values to either true or false, they never actually set them to true or false. I was wondering, is there some sort of special method to setting BoolValues in LocalScripts? Am I doing something wrong? My code below is completely unfinished, as I need the BoolValues to work in order to move on. And any extra variables you see that aren't being used are there because they will be used in the future. In addition, in case you were wondering, I am getting no errors. Here it is:

Setting players values:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
	local character = plr.Character
	if not character or character.Parent == nil then -- what for character
		character = plr.CharacterAdded:wait()
	end
	local val = Instance.new("BoolValue",character) -- set all variables needed
	val.Name = "player"
	local val2 = Instance.new("BoolValue",character)
	val2.Name = "combat"
	local val3 = Instance.new("BoolValue",character)
	val3.Name = "talking"
	local val4 = Instance.new("BoolValue",character)
	val4.Name = "reading"
end)

The main LocalScript:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer -- setting variables
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

if not character or character.Parent == nil then
	character = player.CharacterAdded:wait()
end

local selection = Instance.new("SelectionBox", player.PlayerGui)
selection.Color = BrickColor.new("Medium stone grey")

local cmbselection = Instance.new("SelectionBox", player.PlayerGui)
cmbselection.Color = BrickColor.new("Bright red")

mouse.Move:connect(function()
	mouse.Icon = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=184642130"
	local combat = character.combat.Value
	local talking = character.talking.Value --set more variables
	local reading = character.reading.Value
	local target = mouse.Target
	if target and target.Parent:IsA("Model") then
		local hum = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
		local plr = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("player")
		local enemy = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("enemy")
		local friend = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("friend")
		local book = target.Parent:FindFirstChild("book")
		if hum and plr == nil and enemy and combat == false then
			mouse.Icon = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=165194824"
			selection.Adornee = target.Parent
			mouse.Button1Down:connect(function()
				local targetpos = target.Parent.Torso.Position
				local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(targetpos)
				if distance < 40 and combat == false then
					combat = true --not setting combat to true
					selection.Adornee = nil
					cmbselection.Adornee = target.Parent
				end
			end)
		elseif hum == nil or target == nil or plr == nil and combat == true then
			mouse.Icon = "http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=184642130"
			selection.Adornee = nil
			mouse.Button1Down:connect(function()
				cmbselection.Adornee = nil
			end)
		end
	end
end)

I hope my code wasn't too sloppy, thanks for reading.

Anonymous