Turning Lights On and Of

Im still kinda new to coding as well but I will share what I can. I made a little game a while back where the player was able to toggle on/off a flashlight. This is the code I used:

if(Input.GetButtonDown (“Flashlight”))
on = !on;

if(on)
light.enabled = true;
else if(!on)
light.enabled = false;

I suppose you could switch the if (Input…) to check if a raycast hits it instead.
Hope that can be of some use 🙂

Credit´s to Kalaskryss!!!
I´ve now got it working! The reason I´m still here is to ask if there would be a good way to set up the lighting. As far as my knowledge goes, turning lights on and of is dynamic lighting, and it seems to work with < 4 Lights. Do I need Unity Pro or is there another way to make many Lights “configurable”?

If you want to read the script, here it is:
This is the object That illuminates (It´s called ColorChangingCube):

#pragma strict
function TurnLightOf ()
{
 light.enabled = false;
}

#pragma strict
var TheDammage : int = 50;
var Distance : float;
var Hand : Transform;
var MaxDistance : float = 1.5;
var TheCube;
TheCube = GameObject.Find ("ColorChangingCube");
function Update ()
{
 if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) 
 {
 Hand.animation.Play("Punch");
 var hit : RaycastHit;
 if (Physics.Raycast (transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), hit))
 {
 if (hit.collider.gameObject.Find ("ColorChangingCube"))
 {
 Distance = hit.distance;
 if (Distance < MaxDistance)
 {
 hit.transform.SendMessage("TurnLightOf", TheDammage, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
 }
 }
 }
 }
}

I don’t know if it makes any difference, but I don’t know why you have a GameObject.Find under your declarations & not in a function, I don’t think that would even get called…..  not that it matters because you have one in the raycast bit   ^_^

Well done for getting stuff to do things, it nice when that happens   ^_^

woah you should take this line out:

 if (hit.collider.gameObject.Find ("ColorChangingCube"))

GameObject.Find is something best done under the Start or Awake functions. It’s expensive and not to be used very often. As it is, you’re calling it every frame

Ok Thanks again for all the help, the gameobject.find is now only called at the start function. I hope I´ve got it all right it still works tough. As I want to use well over 4 dynamic lights in the scene I´ve came along the idea of deactivating them all at the beginning, and hide them somehow, maybe through fog, so the game doesn´t have to draw them. As soon as the player hit´s a collider near them they will activate before the player can se them, so he get´s the feeling, that they were always shining.
I think this will be a way to trick around the fact that I only can use 4 dynamic lights
(evil genious masterplan (; )

Update 2:
Fixed it!:

#pragma strict
private var theCollider : String;
var Lighting; 
function Start ()
{
      light.enabled = false;
}
function LightisOff ()
{
       light.enabled = false;
}
function OnTriggerEnter ()
{
       if (Lighting == false)
       {
             light.enabled = false;
       }
       else
       {
             light.enabled = true;
       }
}
function TurnLightOf ()
{
       light.enabled = false;
       SendMessage ("LightisOff");
       Lighting = false;
}

It works! But as soon as I step out and enter the collider again, it activates the Light again. So heres the new code for the Light Cube:

#pragma strict
function Start ()
{
      light.enabled = false;
}
function LightisOff ()
{
      light.enabled = false;
}
function OnTriggerEnter ()
{
      light.enabled = true;
}
function TurnLightOf ()
{
      light.enabled = false;
      SendMessage ("LightisOff");
}

So how is there a way to tell the cube not to light up again once I´ve hit it? Is there maybe a way to prioritize my functions?
Thanks you all for helping me!