So basically I have an if statement, I want things to be triggered by it but I can't seem to find how. Here's what I wrote
if game.workspace.part.brickcolor == brickcolor.new("COLOR")
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How do you make an if statement that triggers when a block changes to a certain color?
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Pay attention to uppercase letters; Lua is case sensitive.
game.workspaceshould begame.Workspace(or simplyworkspacefor short)partpresumptively should bePartbrickcolorandbrickcolor.new()should becomeBrickColorandBrickColor.new()- Here is the list of all BrickColor codes (be sure to pay attention to capitalization)
Another issue with your code is you're forgetting your terminating operator, or end. Here's how an if statement should look:
if statement then
...
end
So, in your case it'd look like this:
if workspace.Part.BrickColor == BrickColor.new("Your colour") then
-- do something
end
However, this may not work, since it's only checking at the beginning of the script. How do you fix this? You could loop indefinitely and constantly check:
while true do -- loops forever, since true is always equal to true
if workspace.Part.BrickColor == BrickColor.new("Blah blah") then
-- ...
end
wait() -- required for infinite loops, or your game will "hang"
end
However, Roblox supplies us with an easier and much more efficient way of doing this, using RBXScriptSignals. In this case you could use the GetPropertyChangedSignal method of the part to generate an event for when a property is updated, such as BrickColor. You can then Connect this event to a function that has your if statement.
local part = workspace.Part
part:GetPropertyChangedSignal("BrickColor"):Connect(function()
if part.BrickColor == BrickColor.new("Eiffel tower") then
-- finally do something here
end
end)
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--use the Changed event to see when a part's BrickColor changes
local part = game.Workspace.Part
local color = BrickColor.new("Lime green")
part.Changed:connect(function(prop)
if prop == "BrickColor" then
if part.BrickColor == color then
print ("hello")
end
end
end)
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One thing to note - you don't actually need to create a BrickColor object in order to run it against the part's BrickColor. You can run Part.BrickColor against a string "Eiffel tower" and get the same outcome.