Disable lasers instead of being enabled? (ROBLOX Lua) - lua

Question

Hey stackoverflow community. So I have started working on a "Tycoon" in ROBLOX. I have gathered a couple custom models but I ran into an issue with one of them. Basically, I want a laser gate for each player base. The problem I have is that the lasers from the laser gate are enabled at the beginning of the game. Personally I want them to be disabled at the beginning so they can be enabled manually by the player later on. The reason I am struggling with this is because I am not the one who made the script, however, I have tried solving it but I did not succeed.
script.LazerGateLocalScript.LazerGate.Value = script.Parent -- setting a
value
local configs = script.Parent.Configurations
local lazers = script.Parent.LazerGate -- making it easier to access this
part
local lazersOn = true -- so we know if the lasers are on or off
for i, node in pairs(lazers:GetChildren()) do
for i, component in pairs(node:GetChildren()) do
if component.Name == "Emitter" then
local lazerBeam = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
local lazerColor = configs.LazerColor.Value
lazerBeam.Color = ColorSequence.new(lazerColor, lazerColor) -- Setting the lazer color to the lazer color found in the configurations of this model
elseif component.Name == "Diode" then
component.BrickColor = configs.DiodeColor.Value
local diodeSparkle = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
diodeSparkle.Color = ColorSequence.new(Color3.new(255,255,255), configs.DiodeSparkleColor.Value)
elseif component.Name == "Lense" then
component.BrickColor = configs.DiodeColor.Value
end
end
end
script.Parent.KillBrick.PointLight.Color = configs.LazerColor.Value
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player) -- when a player is added
player.CharacterAdded:connect(function() -- and whenever their character is loaded then
local newScript = script.LazerGateLocalScript:Clone() -- clone the local script
newScript.Parent = player.PlayerGui -- and put it in the player's playerGui
end)
end)
function lazerToggle(OnOff) -- this funtionc simply changes whether the lasers are on or off
for i, node in pairs(lazers:GetChildren()) do
for i, component in pairs(node:GetChildren()) do
if component.Name == "Emitter" then
local lazerBeam = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
if OnOff == true then
lazerBeam.Enabled = true
else
lazerBeam.Enabled = false
end
end
end
end
end
script.Parent.KillBrick.Touched:connect(function(obj)
if obj.Parent and obj.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and lazersOn == true then
obj.Parent:BreakJoints()
end
end)
script.Parent.LazerToggle.OnServerEvent:connect(function() -- when an event is fired then see if we are to open or close the lid and set a value to do so
if lazersOn == true then
lazerToggle(false)
wait(1.5)
lazersOn = false
else
lazerToggle(true)
wait(0.5)
lazersOn = true
end
end)
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
mouse.Button1Down:connect(function() -- if the player chicks then ...
if script.LazerGate.Value and mouse.Target.Name == "LazerButton" and mouse.Target.Parent.Name == "LazerGateSection" then -- if they click the laser gates button
script.LazerGate.Value.LazerToggle:FireServer() -- fire an event that the script will use
end
end)
Once again, my issue is that I want the lasers to be disabled, not enabled at the beginning. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I am very aware that I will be receiving downvotes for this post (xD). But I'll really appreciate any help!
Thanks in advance,
E.W

Answer 1

From what the code tells me, this should work:
script.LazerGateLocalScript.LazerGate.Value = script.Parent
local configs = script.Parent.Configurations
local lazers = script.Parent.LazerGate
local lazersOn = false
for _, node in pairs(lazers:GetChildren()) do
for _, component in pairs(node:GetChildren()) do
if component.Name == "Emitter" then
local lazerBeam = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
local lazerColor = configs.LazerColor.Value
lazerBeam.Color = ColorSequence.new(lazerColor, lazerColor)
elseif component.Name == "Diode" then
component.BrickColor = configs.DiodeColor.Value
local diodeSparkle = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
diodeSparkle.Color = ColorSequence.new(Color3.new(255,255,255), configs.DiodeSparkleColor.Value)
elseif component.Name == "Lense" then
component.BrickColor = configs.DiodeColor.Value
end
end
end
script.Parent.KillBrick.PointLight.Color = configs.LazerColor.Value
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:connect(function()
local newScript = script.LazerGateLocalScript:Clone()
newScript.Parent = player.PlayerGui
end)
end)
function lazerToggle(OnOff)
for _, node in pairs(lazers:GetChildren()) do
for _, component in pairs(node:GetChildren()) do
if component.Name == "Emitter" then
local lazerBeam = component:FindFirstChild("ParticleEmitter")
if OnOff then
lazerBeam.Enabled = true
else
lazerBeam.Enabled = false
end
end
end
end
end
script.Parent.KillBrick.Touched:connect(function(obj)
if obj.Parent and obj.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") and lazersOn == true then
obj.Parent:BreakJoints()
end
end)
script.Parent.LazerToggle.OnServerEvent:connect(function()
if lazersOn == true then
lazerToggle(false)
wait(1.5)
lazersOn = false
else
lazerToggle(true)
wait(0.5)
lazersOn = true
end
end)
lazerToggle(false);
The code above goes into the first script, the server side script which has a child called LazerGateLocalScript.
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
mouse.Button1Down:connect(function()
if script.LazerGate.Value and mouse.Target.Name == "LazerButton" and mouse.Target.Parent.Name == "LazerGateSection" then
script.LazerGate.Value.LazerToggle:FireServer()
end
end)
And then this code above goes into the local script which is a child of the server script called LazerGateLocalScript
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