how do i copy a lighting property without it updating

[wanton talon]

i am attempting to copy the value of lighting properties (for example brightness), as a constant value, however whenever the value is read from it updates to the current value

yes it is a variable, i have tried table.freeze, tostring(), tonumber(), converting it to an instance value, but none have worked
local basebrightness = game.Lighting.Brightness

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send script

[wanton talon]

at the bottom i put the line of code, but also mentioned above the other stuff i tried

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Thats it???

of corse it won't work

[wanton talon]

example script of what i was trying to achieve (ignore the capitalization its just to show an example)

local basebrightness = game.lighting.brightness

while task.wait(30) do
game.lighting.brightness = 0
task.wait(10)
game.lighting.brightness = basebrightness
end

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local basebrightness = game.lighting.brightness

while task.wait(30) do
game.lighting.brightness = 0
task.wait(10)
game.lighting.brightness = basebrightness
end

this should work

unless you keep updating basebrightness

which you aren't doing

[wanton talon]

mb it was an issue with the admin command i was using to test it

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