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I'm setting a function that turns off a light and I get an error. Why?

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5 years ago

I'm referencing a video. And I'm doing pretty much everything it's telling me to do. The video is about how to make a stoplight.

01--Variables
02print("Hello world!")
03local stoplight= script.Parent
04local red= stoplight.Red
05local yellow= stoplight.Yellow
06local green= stoplight.Green
07 
08--The on function
09local function on(part)
10    part.Material= Enum.Material.Plastic
11    part.SurfaceLight.Enabled= true
12end
13 
14--The off function
15local function off(part)
16    part.Material= Enum.Material.
17    part.SurfaceLight.Enabled= false <--- The line that's giving me the error
18end
19 
20--Lights will turn off and on 
21while true do
22 
23    --Green turns on
24    on(green)
25    off(yellow)
26    off(red)
27    wait(7)
28 
29    --Yellow turns on
30    off(green)
31    on(yellow)
32    off(red)
33    wait(3)
34 
35    --Red turns on
36 
37    off(green)
38    off(yellow)
39    on(red)
40    wait(10)
41 
42end
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I'm just putting an equal sign and there's an error in it. If I run it, I get this error.

12:50:20.944 - Workspace.StopLight.Light Controller:17: Expected identifier when parsing expression, got '='

Why does this happen and how do I fix this? This is literally correct. How is this even deemed incorrect?

You forgot the .Plastic at Line 16 Pap3rLP 6 — 5y

oof. Right, thank you for the tip. Cyroxite 46 — 5y

I'm setting a function that turns off a light and I get an error. Why?

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