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How to find if a boolvalue has been set to true?

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So, I have this script here:

print("")
------------------------------------------{ LOCALS }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local Generator1 = game.Workspace.Generator1.Switch.Button.Enabled1 -- don't mind this.

local Generator2 = game.Workspace.Generator2.Switch.Button.Enabled2 -- this either.

local test = game.Workspace.Part.Value

---------------------------
--{ important

local open = script.Parent.Open

---------------------------

------------------------------------------{ SCRIPT }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if test.Value == true then
	script.Parent.CanCollide = false
	script.Parent.Transparency = 1
	end

and it would all be fine, if it wasn't for the script not working. What I want it to do is find if a generator's boolvalue happens to be enabled (when the generator has been turned on) and trigger the "open the gate" event, which for testing was just simply wrote as CanCollide = false and Transparency = 1. After realizing the script isn't working I checked the output and it was empty. I decided to put up a random part with a wait(5) and enable the test value to see if it's a generator problem or a script problem, and it seems to be on the gate's script behalf.

all scripts are serverscripts and are all located within Workspace (edit: by workspace I mean they're all in their models that are located within workspace, you can see it clearly in the script's locals above. I've tried making the boolvalue a numbervalue and triggering the script to work by finding if the numbervalue's value is 1, but it didn't work either. I have no honest clue what is the cause of this and it's annoying, considering a huge part of my project is almost done if it wasn't for this damn gate.

Anonymous

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

If you want the gate to open whenever the value is set to true, here's what you'd do.

print("")
------------------------------------------{ LOCALS }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local Generator1 = game.Workspace.Generator1.Switch.Button.Enabled1 -- don't mind this.

local Generator2 = game.Workspace.Generator2.Switch.Button.Enabled2 -- this either.

local test = game.Workspace.Part.Value

---------------------------
--{ important

local open = script.Parent.Open

---------------------------

------------------------------------------{ SCRIPT }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

test.Changed:Connect(function(new)
	script.Parent.CanCollide = not new -- If true, "not" true will be false, and vise versa.
	script.Parent.Transparency = (new and 1) or 0 -- If true, Transparency is 1, otherwise 0.
end)
AnonymousPermalink

You are trying to get test.Value 's value!
this should work:

print("")
------------------------------------------{ LOCALS }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local Generator1 = game.Workspace.Generator1.Switch.Button.Enabled1 -- don't mind this.

local Generator2 = game.Workspace.Generator2.Switch.Button.Enabled2 -- this either.

local test = game.Workspace.Part.Value

---------------------------
--{ important

local open = script.Parent.Open

---------------------------

------------------------------------------{ SCRIPT }-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if test == true then
    script.Parent.CanCollide = false
    script.Parent.Transparency = 1
end
AnonymousPermalink

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