Problem With A Piece Of Code Executing When Not Supposed To?
for _, object in pairs(game.Workspace.Building.Lights:GetChildren()) do
if game.Lighting.ClockTime == 13 or 13.1 or 13.2 or 13.3 then
object.Transparency = 1
end
end
As you can see that my code is trying to do gather all children of the building lights then tests if it is 13 Clock time in lighting then it turns the lights invisible but it keeps executing the object transparency bypassing the if statement; anyone got a fix?
2 answers
The problem is how you set your conditionals in the if-statement. By having numbers like 13.1 alone in a condition is considered as truthy since you don't compare it to anything. The correct use of comparing numbers for that line would be:
if game.Lighting.ClockTime == 13 or game.Lighting.ClockTime == 13.1 or game.Lighting.ClockTime == 13.2 or game.Lighting.ClockTime == 13.3 then
Obviously it looks very messy so you could use the greater/less than operators, > or <.
In your case it could look like:
for _, object in pairs(game.Workspace.Building.Lights:GetChildren()) do
if game.Lighting.ClockTime > 13 and game.Lighting.ClockTime < 13.3 then
object.Transparency = 1
end
end
The above would only run the code inside of the if-statement if the ClockTime was between 13.3 and 13.
Let me know if this had helped you or if I missed anything.
Truthy values
In Lua, any value that is not false or nil is truthy. So if you use s number as a condition in your if statement it will pass since numbers are truthy
Additionally, you cannot guarantee that the decimals will exactly be 13.2, 13.3, ect.
for _, object in pairs(game.Workspace.Building.Lights:GetChildren()) do
if game.Lighting.ClockTime >= 13 and game.Lighting.ClockTime <= 14 then
object.Transparency = 1
end
end
So you should use >= and <= when working with decimals.