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ParticleEmitter not activating when parent tool is activated?

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I'm fairly new to scripting, and I've spent the last half hour trying to figure out why my code won't work. Basically, what the script does, is it sets a ParticleEmitter's state to enabled when the parent tool is activated. I cannot figure out how to get this to work. Here's the code:

BlowTorchFlame = game.StarterPack.Blowtorch.Handle.ParticleEmitter
BlowTorch = game.StarterPack.Blowtorch

BlowTorchFlame.Enabled = false

local function onActivate()
 BlowTorchFlame.Enabled = true
end

BlowTorch.Activated:connect(onActivate)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anonymous

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Where is this script located?

Anonymous#
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Inside of the tool called "Blowtorch" in the starterpack.

Anonymous#

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Always remember which Tool you're making changes to

If you look at the top few lines of your code, you actually created a reference to the Blowtorch in the StarterPack, not the Player's BackPack. I wrote a (fixed?) version below, feel free to ask me any questions you might have about it.

wait()
Players = game:GetService("Players")
LocalPlayer = Players.LocalPlayer
BackPack = LocalPlayer.BackPack

BlowTorch = BackPack.Blowtorch
BlowTorchFlame = BlowTorch.Handle.ParticleEmitter

BlowTorchFlame.Enabled = false

function onActivate()
	BlowTorchFlame.Enabled = true
end

BlowTorch.Activated:connect(onActivate)
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