stage lights, something i tried for months but always failed

[burnt minnow]

so like i tried to make these stage lights, if you press like a green button the lights will turn on green, i dont want anything too fancy just something really basic, i need this system done for my game before christmas, let me send some photos for what im trying to make. if anyone could help me make these, or even make them with me on studio id appreciate it 😉

if anyone knows how to make, message here or dm me 🙏

[wooden owl]

you can use a clickdetector and change the lights color with a color3 value

[burnt minnow]

i dont quite understand this kind of code yet, could you explain a little more (srry im annoying)

[wooden owl]

are you trying to have multiple light colors?

do you already got the basic lights made in studio

[burnt minnow]

im trying to make basic lights, if i press a pink button a part will turn neon pink, or if i press a green button a part OR multiple parts will turn neon green if that makes sense

[burnt minnow]

im very stuck so i didnt get so far 😭

[wooden owl]

well assuming just for right now that youve got a light made, what i feel would be the best option is a row of parts with ClickDetectors inside of them, then within a script whenever each is pressed it'll change the Color property of all the lights to the clicked parts color

[burnt minnow]

yea, i got the lights, buttons and scripts but i havent filled any code in yet, could you possibly help me make a code for this?

i have made some partical admitting light things but what im tryna do here is more different

[wooden owl]

okay well assuming your lights are all exactly the same and put into the same container it'd be something like

local LightsContainer = game.Workspace.Lights -- folder containing light parts
local ButtonsContainer = game.Workspace.Buttons -- assume this is a folder or something containing parts

local function OnClick(ClickedPart:Part)
  local AllLights = LightContainer:GetChildren()
  for _,v in AllLights do
    print("Changed",v.Name,"'s color to",ClickedPart.Name,"'s color")
    v.Color = ClickedPart.Color
  end
end

for _,v in ButtonsContainer:GetChildren() do
  print("adding",v.Name)
  local ClickDetector = v:FindFirstChild("ClickDetector") or Instance.new("ClickDetector",v)
  ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
    print(v.Name,"clicked")
    OnClick(v)
  end)
end

not on pc rn so this probably wont work

[burnt minnow]

shall i group the lights to the button?

[wooden owl]

no, youd want the lights in something like a folder

same with the buttons

for this im assuming both the lights and the buttons are Parts

[lapis talon]

can u help me

[burnt minnow]

yea they are parts rn

[wooden owl]

general outline of workspace would be like
Lights:Folder > All light parts
Buttons:Folder > All buttons

the code should automatically create the clickdetectors

[wooden owl]

make a post in help then

i usually just browse randomly for stuff

[burnt minnow]

alright thank you, ill try do that code rq

[clever rapids]

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[wooden owl]

the script would probably be inside of ServerScriptService btw

[lapis talon]

pinged u in one

[wooden owl]

alr

ill check it out rn

[burnt minnow]

o

uh lemme fix that

nope it does not work

im gonna use more basic things, for now i just need this pink button to make the sphere neon pink when i press the button if ur still free on helping

[lapis talon]

i could try and make that 4 u

[wooden owl]

whats the errors given

[burnt minnow]

please if ur able to im gonna slowly decay making these

[burnt minnow]

i checked console, no errors

i restarted again on a fresh studio now so everything is new and clean

[wooden owl]

it creates a clickdetector inside the buttons right?

[burnt minnow]

yea i did that

[wooden owl]

i mean the way that this works is it automatically creates it

let me add some prints and lmk

[burnt minnow]

alright, im gonna try a similar method if someone is free to help me continue this version

[wooden owl]

i edited the script

[wooden owl]

delete the clickdetector and script

[burnt minnow]

alr

[wooden owl]

the script i sent should be inside of serverscriptservice

[wooden owl]

and remember they have to be in separate folders

[burnt minnow]

uhh

i can try again rq

[wooden owl]

a folder names Buttons, and a folder names Lights

[burnt minnow]

do i press "group as a folder" ?

for lights

and buttons

or 1

[wooden owl]

have 2 separate folders

so yeah

for each "button" part make sure its in a folder named Buttons
and for each "light" part make sure its in a folder named Lights

[burnt minnow]

like this?

[wooden owl]

yeah

now try

[wooden owl]

i added prints btw so might wanna use this one

[burnt minnow]

omg it worked

TYSM

[wooden owl]

np

if you wanted to add actual light instances itd be similar just change those colors to the part color

[burnt minnow]

this is so cool and yes i will if i needed to in future, thanks so so much!!

[clever rapids]

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[wooden owl]

np

[burnt minnow]

by chance, how could i make the buttons a gui? srry im asking alot

so i dont have like 40 buttons everywhere

[wooden owl]

RemoteEvents for sending color info to the server

since you want the light colors to be replicated

[burnt minnow]

could you explain a bit more?

[wooden owl]

mb i was busy, but remote events are basically a way for the client to send information to the server and vice versa

it runs a function through with the given arguments

so if i fired a remote event via

RemoteEvent:FireServer(Color3.fromRGB(255,0,0))

then the server can do

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player,GivenColor)
  print(GivenColor)
end

Player is automatically given

and this would print out the color thing for red i think

[burnt minnow]

hmm

ill give that a go

ty!

[wooden owl]

np

[burnt minnow]

uh

smth broke

the light is now clickable and not the button and when i click it, it makes the nearby pool like controls go that colour

help 😭

[wooden owl]

did you switch the folders?

[burnt minnow]

nope

i redid the process to make them in a different game

now they are uh

broken...

[wooden owl]

its something with the naming then

since if theyre reversed then how one part should function switched over

[burnt minnow]

oh yep found it]