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Enabling ParticleEmitters Issue?

Asked May 20, 2015345 views2 answers

Trying to script some particle emitters to enable and disable depending on if a boolvalue in the workspace is true or false. For some reason it doesn't work, I have the boolvalue set to turn true or false depending on the button pressed in the workspace, which works fine, but the particle emitters dont enable themselves when I press the button. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is ROBLOX just not able to do it or is it me?

if game.Workspace.ConfettiEnabled.Value==true then
	script.Parent.Enabled=true
else
	script.Parent.Enabled=false
end

AnonymousMay 20, 2015

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You did not set it up to fire a second time, or to fire when the Button is pressed.

AnonymousMay 20, 2015#

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I'm assuming that's the only code in your script. If it is, your problem is that the code is only checking if the bool value is true once, and then never checking again. So if you change it, the script won't detect it. In order to do that, you have to use the Changed event.

Basically what the Changed event does is that it fires whenever a property of the object that it's connected to changes. So you can use that with this bool value to check whether or not the value is true or false.

You would use it like this:

game.Workspace.ConfettiEnabled.Changed:connect(function() --This will call the function in the parenthesis every time the Changed event is fired
	if game.Workspace.ConfettiEnabled.Value==true then --Check if the bool value is true
		script.Parent.Enabled=true
	else
		script.Parent.Enabled=false
	end
end)

Hope this helped!

Further resources: Changed

AnonymousMay 20, 2015Permalink

if then only checks once right when the game starts. If you are checking for a Bool Value to be changed use;

game.Workspace.ConfettiEnabled.Changed:connect(function() --This will call the function in the parenthesis every time the Changed event is fired
    if game.Workspace.ConfettiEnabled.Value==true then --Check if the bool value is true
        script.Parent.Enabled=true
    else
        script.Parent.Enabled=false
    end
end)

Changed checks for when the children or properties of ConfettiEnabled are changed. If so it will run the program.

Hope This Helps : )

AnonymousMay 20, 2015Edited May 20, 2015Permalink

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Did turbo copy your answer, or did you copy his??

AnonymousMay 20, 2015#

Nobody copied any answers, they just posted at the same time. However, you both could shorten your scripts though so you could just set script.Parent.Enabled to be the Value when the event fires instead of having to use more lines for the if statement.

AnonymousMay 20, 2015#

I was writing my answer and when I posted it, I saw that he posted an answer as well. It was purely coincidental

AnonymousMay 20, 2015#

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