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How do I get the light scripts to be disabled at a certain time of day?

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Dried_Umeboshi 15
8 years ago
Edited 8 years ago
 
star = game.Workspace.Stars.Star
minutesAfterMidnight = 0

if game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() == 6 * 60 then       -- checks for 6AM
        star.Script.Disabled = false
    end
    if game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight() == 18 * 60 then      -- checks for 6PM
        star.Script.Disabled = true
    end
end

This is a script that checks for the time of day, and then enables/disables a script inside other parts depending on the time of day. If it means anything, it works alongside a day/night script that looks a little like this-

minutesAfterMidnight = 0
while true do
    minutesAfterMidnight = minutesAfterMidnight + 1
    game.Lighting:SetMinutesAfterMidnight(minutesAfterMidnight)
    wait(.1)
end

I don't know if I should merge these two scripts into one or not. It's a huge mess.

It doesn't work (obviously since I'm the one who's handling it), and I think I have my problems sorted out, but I don't know how to solve them.

Problem 1. I'm not referring to the light scripts correctly.

Problem 2. I don't know how to refer to multiple items at once. (There's 10 stars, meaning 10 scripts to enable/disable)

Thanks in advance.

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Check out this link: http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/Basic_functions&redirect=no#pairs. It basically shows how to get 1 item from a table using only a single script. So a tip would be to put all the star/lights inside of a folder or model and use GetChildren to return a table with all those stars. Then you'd use pairs. EzraNehemiah_TF2 3552 — 8y

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Answered by
SH_Helper 61
8 years ago

This is a problem. There is too many ends, and it only checks once. So in conclusion, you cannot find "Yay" in the output.

local test = false
if test == true then
primt("Yay")
end
test = true

So what you want to do is

while wait(.1) do
if game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight(6 * 60) then --checks if it is 6:00 am
print("It is 6 am!")
elseif game.Lighting:GetMinutesAfterMidnight(18 * 60) --checks if it is 6:00 pm
print("It is 6 pm!")
end
end

Also, I think you thing that a if statement ALWAYS has to have a ==, >, or <, so that is why you put what you put in your if atatement, but this is correct too.

if game:FindFirstChild("Workspace") then
print("Workspace exists!")
end

One thing you cant do is refer to mutiple things at once, you might with :GetChildren() wich I havent tested. With that, every star has to be a diffrent name. Say you have ten parts named "Lava" in workspace and try to call a specific one. The game will be like "what do i chosse?!? do i choose the first part named Lava or the third one?!?". So name them like StarOne, StarTwo, etc.

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