code-discussion

[flat axle]

MY AVATAR

[gloomy kraken]

sooo what avatar was it

put it on and show all of us fr

[flat axle]

only when my games released

[lean ocean]

bro u dont even have anything in ur inventory

[flat axle]

its a sung jin woo

avatar

animated too

cuz ugc

[lean ocean]

what do u mean animated

[gloomy kraken]

your biggest mistake was admitting it was a sun jin woo avatar

[flat axle]

like cloak

oh wait

[lean ocean]

yea but you dont have anything in your inventory

[flat axle]

cuz ugc creator

[lean ocean]

???

[flat axle]

still making

[gloomy kraken]

sun jin woo means you probably dont even have any limiteds

[flat axle]

dude

[lean ocean]

☠️

admin panel

[gloomy kraken]

which means that it has to be under 1k LOL

[final tree]

html and css writers are nerds

[lean ocean]

fps map chooser

[flat axle]

what does the name Shadow bounds

that was

me when i was a kid

[final tree]

html and css is for nerds imo lol

[flat axle]

didt i say

[final tree]

wix >>>>>

[gloomy kraken]

free model hell

[flat axle]

i created this acc when i was a kid ok i didt understand lua back then

[gloomy kraken]

you dont seem to understand lua even now

[lean ocean]

best part is its luau

not lua

[flat axle]

😭 just wait dont reply to my comments

[lean ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/tongue-swing-gif-14837596563859224828

[flat axle]

uhh

[gloomy kraken]

i love how you havent even sent solid proof

and we're all supposed to believe you

[flat axle]

just wait dont reply to my comments

[umbral carbon]

CSS is just perfect

Nobody would want it any other way

[obsidian lark]

tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0)

how do i make it so it stays the same size when i zoom in/out (billboard gui on script)

[umbral carbon]

Bruh

[umbral carbon]

I'm not sure

You can see the BillBoardGUI offset settings

[wise meadow]

ty btw ❤️ i still got alot more work to do on it

[wind pasture]

Does anybody know blue lock?

[wise meadow]

do u have text on ur billboard gui?

[obsidian lark]

local tag = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
tag.Name = "Overhead"
tag.Adornee = head
tag.Parent = head
tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0)
tag.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 1.5, 0)
tag.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0, 0)
tag.MaxDistance = 40
tag.AlwaysOnTop = false

    local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
    nameLabel.Parent = tag
    nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
    nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    nameLabel.Text = player.Name 
    nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) 
    nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.5
    nameLabel.Font = Enum.Font.FredokaOne
    nameLabel.TextScaled = true

its on a script

nvm

it works :)

[wise meadow]

lol alright

it looked all right to me i was sitting here abt to test it to get a better feel but just reading it it seems right

[obsidian lark]

lol quick question

[ivory temple]

based coding in roblox 2025...

[wise meadow]

lol

[obsidian lark]

how do i make it so someone with a certain gamepass, it makes it so their name tag yellow?

[ivory temple]

you can use MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync()

[obsidian lark]

where do i put on this script

``game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")

    local tag = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
    tag.Name = "Overhead"
    tag.Adornee = head
    tag.Parent = head
    tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0) 
    tag.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 1.5, 0)
    tag.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0, 0)
    tag.MaxDistance = 40
    tag.AlwaysOnTop = false


    local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
    nameLabel.Parent = tag
    nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
    nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    nameLabel.Text = player.Name 
    nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) 
    nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.5
    nameLabel.Font = Enum.Font.FredokaOne
    nameLabel.TextScaled = true
end)

end)''

[ivory temple]

  local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
  local Players = game:GetService("Players")

  Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player: Player)
    if MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, GAMEPASS_ID) then
      -- code here
    end
  end)

[winter iris]

LF a really good scripter

[obsidian lark]

thanks

[ivory temple]

make a post for #scripter-hiring

this is coding discussion not hiring

(sorry 2 minimod)

[winter iris]

aye nws ofc i gotchu im just tryna see if anyones availble quickly

[wise meadow]

local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService") local GAMEPASS_ID = 12345678 add this at the top

        local hasGamepass = false
        pcall(function()
            hasGamepass = MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, GAMEPASS_ID)
        end)
        
       
        if hasGamepass then
            nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 0) 
            nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) 
        end
    end)
end)
``` this at the bottom

[obsidian lark]

on a diff script?

on server script

[wise meadow]

no on ur script u alr have

[obsidian lark]

alr

[obsidian lark]

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

    local tag = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
    tag.Name = "Overhead"
    tag.Adornee = head
    tag.Parent = head
    tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0) 
    tag.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 1.5, 0)
    tag.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0, 0)
    tag.MaxDistance = 40
    tag.AlwaysOnTop = false


    local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
    nameLabel.Parent = tag
    nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
    nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    nameLabel.Text = player.Name 
    nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) 
    nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.5
    nameLabel.Font = Enum.Font.FredokaOne
    nameLabel.TextScaled = true
end)

end)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player: Player)
if MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, 7598249174) then
end
end)

this right?

[dense cargo]

what u need done?

[obsidian lark]

the "players" and "marketplaceservice" is highlighted red

[winter iris]

whole game, pretty complex but good pay

[ivory temple]

yea then just put ur code in the if MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync function

[obsidian lark]

local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
local tag = Instance.new("BillboardGui")

    tag.Name = "Overhead"
    tag.Adornee = head
    tag.Parent = head
    tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0) 
    tag.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 1.5, 0)
    tag.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0, 0)
    tag.MaxDistance = 40
    tag.AlwaysOnTop = false


    local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
    nameLabel.Parent = tag
    nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
    nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
    nameLabel.Text = player.Name 
    nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1) 
    nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.5
    nameLabel.Font = Enum.Font.FredokaOne
    nameLabel.TextScaled = true
end)

end)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player: Player)
if MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, 7598249174) then
end
end)

this fine?

[dense cargo]

what type of game?

[wise meadow]

local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local GAMEPASS_ID = 12345678

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
        local head = character:WaitForChild("Head")
        
        local tag = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
        tag.Name = "Overhead"
        tag.Adornee = head
        tag.Parent = head
        tag.Size = UDim2.new(2, 0, 1, 0)
        tag.ExtentsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 1.5, 0)
        tag.SizeOffset = Vector2.new(0, 0)
        tag.MaxDistance = 100
        tag.AlwaysOnTop = true

        local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
        nameLabel.Parent = tag
        nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0)
        nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
        nameLabel.Text = player.Name
        nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0.5
        nameLabel.Font = Enum.Font.FredokaOne
        nameLabel.TextScaled = true

        local hasGamepass = false
        pcall(function()
            hasGamepass = MarketplaceService:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(player.UserId, GAMEPASS_ID)
        end)
        
        if hasGamepass then
            nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 0)
        else
            nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
        end
    end)
end)

[ivory temple]

ya just do that ^

[winter iris]

soccer, football

[wise meadow]

replace the ID with ur gamepass id obviously

[obsidian lark]

doesnt work

its white

wait OMG

nvm

it was the wrong id 💀

alr thx

[wise meadow]

as i said

😭

[iron skiff]

need someone for a movement system

[dense cargo]

I just joined the discord so I don’t have a portfolio but i am a experienced scripter

[ivory temple]

im surprised you didnt just use chatgpt -- most people just go there nowadays.. good on you for asking!

[wise meadow]

7billion robux

[iron skiff]

no way thats too cheap

[wise meadow]

chatgpt is garbo for code

[winter iris]

2million robux tax covered and u have a deal

[wise meadow]

decillion then

[ivory temple]

yeah but itll teach you the fundamentals atleast

it isnt opinionated either

[wise meadow]

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is much better

and Gemini Pro is also better than GPT

[wise meadow]

this tho, is the best for code related tasks

[ivory temple]

ive used chatgpt to get help with roblox-ts and it worked surprisingly well, obviously it had errors as there arent as many roblox-ts references online out there, but itll fix its mistakes if you tell it whats wrong

[wise meadow]

why r u using roblox-ts anyways?

[ivory temple]

couldnt be assed setting up darklua

[wise meadow]

you have mental problems

[ivory temple]

i prefer the syntaxing and the professional standards behind using roblox-ts, theres a lot more functionality with it as well in terms of the methods ts provides

[wise meadow]

idk

[ivory temple]

but at the same time i dont mind luau, i think its just up to personal preferance 🤷‍♂️

[wise meadow]

Ive used lua since 2015, recently started using luau

but, Im pretty sure i can make just abt anything in studio thru code rn

[ivory temple]

have you put any time into the OSS community?

aka looking into devops environments and fully/partially-managed rojo etc

[wise meadow]

i made a plugin yesterday that generates Hexagons Models and makes a hexagonal map for something im working on

[wise meadow]

ill be honest no clue what that is

im fairly new to roblox studio

[ivory temple]

oh, ic

[wise meadow]

I usually do FiveM, Gmod, or Rust, have did a good bit in unity and unreal and web dev and discord bots too, but im just getting into roblox studio

ive dabbled from time to time in studio, but never actually worked on projects like i am now

[ivory temple]

depending on how comfortable you are with luau, i'd recommend trying out a rojo project for visual studio code

yes you dont have to be forced using roblox studio as your code editor !

[wise meadow]

I already use VSC

[ivory temple]

for roblox?

[wise meadow]

ye

[ivory temple]

but youve never heard of the OSS community? wow, dms

[wise meadow]

lol

[reef fjord]

What is the industry standard way of handling hitdetection in places like a battlegrounds game?
(where accuracy and performance are very important ofc)

I know how to use spatial queries but i find that they tend to lag behind, and i want to see if there's a better alternative

like raycasting or something idk

[dark juniper]

Industry standard is crazy

everyone on Roblox are small devs

[reef fjord]

ykwim

[dark juniper]

imma be fr you can use touched if you try hard enough

but anyways

just use getpartsboundinbox on the client with a sanity check

and your literally good

[reef fjord]

does sanity check imply that the "settings" on the client are validated by the server

[dark juniper]

yea

you mainly just need it for positioning though

don’t use welded parts btw

[reef fjord]

what about size

[dark juniper]

???

wdym

[reef fjord]

the size of the region

[dark juniper]

the region size is not gonna cause any problems

idk why it would

[reef fjord]

say im an exploiter who wants to make my hitbox extra large

[pearl inlet]

could anybody please help me find an idea which they will call "complex"

[reef fjord]

i as the dev would need to determine size on server for security right

[dark juniper]

Client code can’t be edited by exploiters

Honestly I’d just worry about publishing the game if imma be fr with you

[pearl inlet]

I lack ideas

[reef fjord]

Yeah you're probably right but

[dark juniper]

Stop thinking so much about this

[reef fjord]

I'm trying to not build any bad habits

[slow plover]

You do still have hitbox extenders

[pearl inlet]

what

[slow plover]

And exploiters can hook into client code

[pearl inlet]

remotes

[dark juniper]

They can hook

But not edit the scripts

[pearl inlet]

they can just copy paste the script and change for example the keybind

or smth

[reef fjord]

what if i have settings for my hitbox on the client

cant they just make different settings

[dark juniper]

So this changes the client code

like rewrites it

[pearl inlet]

you can inject a script

that is a copy of the previous one with some things changed

[dark juniper]

It doesn’t rewrite the client code

It just overrides it

[pearl inlet]

yea kinda

but works pretty much the same way (almost)

depends on situation

[dark juniper]

Best solution is just to write unexploitable server code

[pearl inlet]

roblox hitbox

predict

[slow plover]

Your hitbox would have to be on the client regardless if you're doing PvP though

[dark juniper]

Its pretty easy if you give it a good thought

[reef fjord]

Yeah for accuracy i get that, i guess i have to study a bit more on what exploiters actually can and can't do

[pearl inlet]

tho predictions are sometimes problematic cuz of roblox physics

[reef fjord]

also performance

[pearl inlet]

those flings

[dark juniper]

Anyways

[pearl inlet]

but you can disable them tho

[dark juniper]

Stop worrying about stuff like this, just code

The real thing you need to worry about

[slow plover]

I wouldn't worry about securing that but instead secure the code that's on the server @reef fjord , doing sanity checks like magnitude and debouncing and even seeing where the client's character was with server sided authority

[dark juniper]

Is that your broke you have no experience

And you have no connections

[reef fjord]

😭

[dark juniper]

your practically nothing

And your worried about security

get over it

[reef fjord]

Interesting pov

[dark juniper]

nobody’s gonna hack a guy with nothing to lose

I wouldn’t trust the snobs here either

[pearl inlet]

tho

if that game goes viral

you're cooked

[dark juniper]

Shut up

[slow plover]

They can manipulate things on their client but nothing on the server

[pearl inlet]

rewriting it all to make it work with predicting

gl

[dark juniper]

Thats likely not happening

And also you just fix it

If it does

That’s what your money is for

Just pay a guy who knows the stuff

[reef fjord]

god forbid a guy wants to learn how it works 💔

[pearl inlet]

boring way of doing it

if that was the case

[dark juniper]

You learn it as you go that’s the thing

[pearl inlet]

then

[nova scaffold]

Can someone give me any ideas of what is something good I could build for my portfolio, I am just starting out and it seems for any job really you need one.

[pearl inlet]

not a single popular combat game has a good anti-cheat on rblx

[reef fjord]

I suppose that's true, maybe i am overthinking.
There still is some rationality to my thought process tho

[dark juniper]

Successful devs on this platform did not have your mindset

going into their stuff

[wind pasture]

Who want to be hired for a battlegrounds game

[dark juniper]

I’ve spoken with actual devs who’ve made money on this platform

[reef fjord]

I can learn from their mistakes sparing myself the time though surely?

[dark juniper]

They do not think like that

[reef fjord]

Alright I'll take your advice and try it out

[dark juniper]

Learn from mistakes but your main priority right now is muscle memory and learning to code fast

the more you can make the better

[reef fjord]

I suppose that's a good method of learning

👍🏽

[dark juniper]

another thing that’s important

You will start appreciating stuff more the longer you code

And actually implement it cause you want to and have the skill to do it

But yea just code

That’s the advice

[reef fjord]

As in fine details?

Or cleanliness

etc etc

[dark juniper]

yea you acquire that later

just code games

[reef fjord]

mhm

You know what i really appreciate you being straight forward

Thank you

[solid olive]

Guys why 90% of the people don't even reply when i dm to apply as scripter even with good portofolio

in #scripter-hiring

[somber vault]

hey guys, how can i learn scripting? Can anyone tell me the methods they learned because i've been unsuccessfully trying for a month? Thank you for your help

[chilly canyon]

Just keep going

Keep repeating the video if you don't understand it

[somber vault]

any tutorials you recommend?

[chilly canyon]

Probably once you get frustrated take a 5-10 minutes break to avoid burn out and get back to work and work for 25 minutes and repeat

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLySGFpzjXDm7kDBhDtT6XzmP3DoB6Zhhw&si=nmCz24v2-3pwoHGE

Best tutorial I've seen so far

Covers all the basics

And entertainmently explained

[near thistle]

dm ?

[chilly canyon]

What

[near thistle]

look dms

[obsidian lark]

can someone help me with a code rq

[nova scaffold]

Can someone give me any ideas of what is something good I could script for my portfolio, I am just starting out and it seems for any job really you need one.

[craggy niche]

whast problem

[chilly canyon]

G

[obsidian lark]

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local countdownText = script.Parent:WaitForChild("CountdownText")
local rewardEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("PlaytimeRewardUI")

local REWARD_INTERVAL = 300 -- 5 mins
local timeLeft = REWARD_INTERVAL

while true do
    while timeLeft > 0 do
        local minutes = math.floor(timeLeft / 60)
        local seconds = timeLeft % 60
        countdownText.Text = string.format("Next reward in: %02d:%02d", minutes, seconds)
        wait(1)
        timeLeft -= 1
    end

    rewardEvent:FireServer() -- tell server to give bananas
    timeLeft = REWARD_INTERVAL
end ```

it wont update the UI

[craggy niche]

the script looks fine, although idk why u are putting %02d:%02d inside the speech marks

[obsidian lark]

alr but its not updating the ui..

[craggy niche]

fix that and get back, as i said the script is fine so maybe u named the UI slighjtly different or something idk

[velvet vapor]

do you have errors in output?

[craggy niche]

yeah that, and if not then put some prints in there for debugging

[velvet vapor]

If not I guess maybe there is some thing like instead of label.Text = a you area doing label = a, you can try add type annotations and it will tell you

[obsidian lark]

Nothing.

[obsidian lark]

I tried, I just can't fix bruh.

[velvet vapor]

What is %02d?

[manic rover]

If I learn python I can’t use it here

[icy inlet]

Why not

[wintry notch]

• %: Indicates that you’re using a format specifier.
• 0: Pads the number with zeros if it is less than the specified width.
• 2: Specifies the width of the number. In this case, it means the number will occupy at least 2 characters.
• d: Indicates that the value is an integer (decimal number).

[velvet vapor]

okey tbh I don’t know why you would use it if you can just put %d but ok

in this case

[obsidian lark]

going to add a bunch of debug print scripts

[velvet vapor]

and use task.wait, wait is deprecated

[velvet vapor]

and also I believe it’s bad just in terms of security because exploiter can fire this thing by himself but if you are just learning or just don’t care that’s not a problem

[obsidian lark]

Yeah, I am going to redo the script.

[bleak glade]

non c user detected

[velvet vapor]

nah nah it’s good you need just to add checks on the server

[obsidian lark]

OMG this whole time

bro

omg

its bec, the text was too big, and it was outside the ui

LOL bro lol

alr w

[wispy bane]

A state machine... not sure if I'm good enough to be making those yet, but I might as well give it a shot (there likely isn't any guides on it though, right?)

ty for the advice though

[half hamlet]

There's a ton even if it doesnt necessarily be written/made inside roblox the very foundation is still there

[dark juniper]

honestly don’t redo the code

I’m guessing you probably having basically nothing

and putting a strain on yourself redoing stuff is just gonna dig your hole deeper

[quartz oriole]

does anyone have a tip for me to learn scripting

[dark juniper]

genuinely just watch videos

[quartz oriole]

kk

thx

[dark juniper]

and then try to use the estufa you learned

[quartz oriole]

i wonder how long it takes to script well?

[manic rover]

Only lua for Roblox

I don’t have a bank but I have a crypto and Venmo and Roblox wallet

[wispy bane]

If I had to put it to where I got here to today, its as simple as this:
#1 - Learn the very basics that make up 99% of what you'll likely be using (Printing, Variables, Functions & Parameters, If/Else/Elseif Statements, Loops, Properties, the Types of Scripts, Tables and know them down to the T)
#2 - Once you have the "fundamentals" down, you'll be able to understand what code does, because mostly everything is made up of these basics. So now, you should be able to look up what you're trying to do with the vast knowledge of the internet (for example, I wanted to make a fighting game, so I looked up all the important stuff like how to build a combat framework and do cooldowns and all that good stuff)

but of course I'm still relatively new to scripting, so if anyone wants to correct me feel free to

[quartz oriole]

thank you so much for your detailed description

[wispy bane]

np

[quartz oriole]

i actually know small things in scripting too

[wispy bane]

teaching the process of something to others also shows mastery, so if you can explain it in full, you can then know that you know it

so i always help when i can

[quartz oriole]

thats kind of you

[limber radish]

hey! i was wondering if anyone could help me with creating a flippable card gui where it shows text on the front and a model with an ilde animation on the back? any help would be greatly appreciated

[copper apex]

What are the main takeaways when using meta table based OOP or functional OOP?

[static coral]

you will have to use viewports. or just image if you dont care about animations. or videoframe magic

[static coral]

wdym functional oop

[graceful oxide]

Don’t use it for everything right after learning it, that’s what. 💀

[static coral]

also dont use metatables for oop

[lone rain]

how doesnt roblox games professionally set walkspeed for big games with speed buffs and debuffs ect

[graceful oxide]

WHAT? Enlighten

[copper apex]

Why

[static coral]

you can just use deep copies

[graceful oxide]

Demonstrate

[static coral]

a shit ton more memory usage + slower methods

[static coral]

ok give me a bit im on mobile

[copper apex]

I thought metatables were efficient in terms of memory usage, but slow in terms of speed

[static coral]

no

[copper apex]

I saw this on a wiki
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ObjectBenchmarkTests

Which did a benchmark test

🤷‍♂️

[lone rain]

best way to setup walkspeed?

[static coral]

humanoid.WalkSpeed

[nova scaffold]

lol

[lone rain]

to use across scripts

like speed buffs and debuffs

[static coral]

modulescripts

[copper apex]

Use modules

[static coral]

tables

[nova scaffold]

local walkspeed = x in a module script

[lone rain]

how shall that look perchance

[static coral]

google is free

[nova scaffold]

ChatGPT is also free

Creator documentation is free too

also yt

[lone rain]

i will get chatgpt to make my entire game

[viscid cedar]

How do I post in hiring channel?

[lone rain]

i got it to make something impressive

[nova scaffold]

#marketplace-info

[lone rain]

i forgot

[wispy bane]

Just to make sure I'm not an idiot, is it possible to run the same function simultaneously in two separate calls?
(For example, if I wanted to make a DebounceManager, and a parry and move cooldown both run off of this, will they use the same debounce variables and such)

[lone rain]

how expensive are scripters and shi

[nova scaffold]

ChatGPT can't make a game by itself

[wispy bane]

I'd argue its quite literally the most expensive job in terms of making a game itself

[lone rain]

ik💔

[lone rain]

why would it not be the most exspensive

[nova scaffold]

Yes

[lone rain]

without a scripter games wont work at all

everything else is just visuals

[wise pewter]

Need recommendations, which youtube channel do i use to learn luau

[nova scaffold]

Exactly, also there is a high demand for scripters and it's hard to learn it

[wispy bane]

BrawlDev

[nova scaffold]

BrawlDev

[wise pewter]

okok

[lone rain]

tears sweat pain and dev forum

your welcome

[wise pewter]

lol alr, where can i uh see the luau documentation and all

[civic garnet]

luau.org

[lone rain]

search up 2014 april 6 dev forum how to make a killbrick

[nova scaffold]

You can't be saying shi not knowing how to make a module script 💔

🥀

[lone rain]

shhhh i do its just i was getting tired of this guy telling me to make a local script for handling speed

so i screenshared and asked you guys to prove him wrong

[static coral]

dms @graceful oxide

[nova scaffold]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/scripting

[short ledge]

When you guys get "Hired", what are some examples of things you're asked to do? You can answer this question by telling me the last thing you've scripted for a client

[ripe plume]

I got hired to do a 'emoji race' game

these kinds of stuff

[safe nebula]

https://gyazo.com/99279907481b002e686956c9b388c354.mp4
😍

[ripe plume]

less laggy than I thought it would be

[safe nebula]

small lag on 10 million frames (lag is studio only)
and on 1 million 0 lag

[copper apex]

Wait thats goated

[safe nebula]

yea and its just 229 lines of code 😻

[ripe plume]

rly why? is there a limit to a for i loop

its like 3 lines

(actually wondering if there is a limit to it)

[safe nebula]

no it isn't

its much more than that

have you ever tried creating more than 5,000 Frames in a Scrollingframe

the lag is insane

[ripe plume]

ooh alr so u made it more performant is that why its running so good

makes sense I was wondering why the video had more than 1 fps 😂

[safe nebula]

yeah its basically replacing a couple pre-existing frames with the content of a table (not as easy as said)

[ripe plume]

interesting, so its getting the scroll pos of the y axis and showing the correct frames and only those around that number kinda? if that makes any sense lmao

[static trellis]

BRO

[elder anvil]

yahoo

[timber wren]

anyone got a working magic carpet thing mine sucks (for r6)

[static trellis]

cool stuff

[restive tulip]

Premiere developer art

[static coral]

an example of things you can be asked to do would be to work without compensation for a game that will definitely flop

[short ledge]

Oh that sounds fun

[cloud linden]

Anyone needs a phyton scripter?

No portfolio

This is the first time i ask to get hired

[somber vault]

respect for using bandicam

[elder anvil]

i mean yea ive only been scripting for like a month at most lawl

[somber vault]

phyton is useful but roblox uses lua so you probably wont find clients here

[elder anvil]

unless i misunderstood oops

[cloud linden]

So where shall I search someone who hires me?

[somber vault]

hm, good question

just type in scripter on the discord discovery tab

[cloud linden]

K

Im lf someone who hires me cuz I need around 500 robux

So im tryharding to find someone

Like i sell a script for 50-100 robux

Phyton script ofc

[spring badge]

This is literally like dream BBQ level stuff

[somber vault]

dont tell me you dont have 1.5$

[distant jay]

i need a scripter to create a mining system in my mining simulator game we will pay

dm me now

[cloud linden]

5000*

I wrote 500

[kind magnet]

solo horror game project im making, give suggestions if you have any

[mint cloud]

Textures big bro 🙏

[kind magnet]

thanks!!!! found most of them off of sketchfab or the roblox toolbox icl lmao

[median prism]

guys

how do i make cutscenes

[karmic coral]

dm me if u wanna recreate a game u must be a decent scripter, im investing 100k into the games ads. possible payment of 10-15k robux upon release. i will give u 50% of the games revenue. dm for more info & proof of funds.

[kind magnet]

use #code-help next time & use youtube tutorials

[mental shoal]

what do u guys think about having all functionality in modulescripts -> loading them all with a script called moduleloader?

i saw this on yt

[vagrant mulch]

this is pissing me off

[umbral carbon]

Need a summary, does that mean they wil grab your data in the future?

[vagrant mulch]

no its already grabbing your data

[umbral carbon]

At least I am worth something

[wind pasture]

Can anybody pls help me make blue lock game

[umbral carbon]

my existence means something

[vagrant mulch]

the thing is it wont remove collected data for scripters if they don't opt out before 30 days meaning scripters who don't even know are having there shit used to help the ai. and when they find out months of there fucking work is already in the ai and cant be removed

that's what im pissed about

[gentle crypt]

which roblox support category do I use for asking for a new ID Verification

for devex

[umbral carbon]

I guess it will get trained on bad code

[vagrant mulch]

I hope

lmao

[blissful solar]

best way to learn scripting on roblox, looking for effective advice, all feedback is appreciated

[vagrant mulch]

read

[blissful solar]

read where

[vagrant mulch]

reading is better at start

[blissful solar]

and what

[umbral carbon]

Pick the closest to it, or pick one of those categories that you ask questions

[vagrant mulch]

I have a file of a roblox coding book if you want it !

[gentle crypt]

they dont answer

[vagrant mulch]

I send it out to my club for mr school

[blissful solar]

i'd really appreciate it

[gentle crypt]

its like a dumb AI responding to me not an actual human

[vagrant mulch]

check your dms

[gentle crypt]

they just say random stuff that doesn't correlate to my issue whatsoever

[vagrant mulch]

anyone wanna read a doc I wrote about 2 different type of rendering practices done by local side rendering scripts

kill

@rustic inlet

if anyone has any complaints in this could you tell me / read it ( its information I gathered some common sense other stuff you may not known )

[stable urchin]

I advise you look into springs to smooth out camera movement

and I'd have 6 springs; for position X, Y and Z, and for orientation X, Y and Z

[kind magnet]

i've heard of those! cant for the life of me figure out how they work. im pretty sure theres that one module script, any tutorials i can use to figure it out?

[stable urchin]

my first thought is that a TLDR would be nice but really all of the points are important to read lol

[stable urchin]

haha I get the feeling, I struggled a while with springs aswell

do you have/had physics classes that touched on the subject of springs?

if not I can give a brief explanation

[kind magnet]

nope :c

[stable urchin]

damn

[surreal compass]

Someone test my sigma game please.

https://www.roblox.com/games/106338000538210/Untitled-3D-cube-renderer-testing-place

[stable urchin]

@ember wren @kind magnet keep this in your head

I'll use a pen for the analogy

the goal of a code spring is to simulate what an IRL spring does

[ember wren]

wrong person

[stable urchin]

lol

my badd

christ

[shy basin]

anyone know whats wrong with my code ?

[kind magnet]

star is a popular name for some reason lol

[stable urchin]

yeah I can tell xD

anyhow

this pen's spring, it has some interesting phenomena

if you pull on the spring and release, it'll spring back

you'll notice that it vibrates and shoots away

[cedar salmon]

why is it so spaced out wtf bro

[shy basin]

idk man, formatting is weird true

[stable urchin]

you'll notice that it's pretty compressible and goes back and forth quite fast - it's not realry stiff, and it's pretty light

and you'll also notice that it pretty quickly stops vibrating/oscillating - this is called damping (or damping, people use it interchangeably it seems)

right? @kind magnet

[kind magnet]

okay, i follow

[lapis haven]

need help with something, when I want to set something (outside of scrolling frame) position to be directly on top of another, but it's in a scrolling frame (horizontal) and under a UILISTlayout, how am I meant to handle that?

I'm aware I need to use absoluteposition, but ive got no clue what else to do especially considering scrolling frame.

[stable urchin]

okay

[near wing]

wait in the big 25💔

[stable urchin]

so there's just a few pieces we care about

[shy basin]

wdym ?

[vagrant mulch]

BEST GAME EVER

LMAO

[lilac sluice]

alot of people use task.wait instead im guessing

[lapis haven]

any1?

[shy basin]

as long its use cases, my code doesnt work so. somewhere must be an error

[lilac sluice]

it wouldnt cause a direct error im pretty sure of that

[stable urchin]

• Rest length
  • what is the spring's length if we don't do anything to it?
• Current length
  • The spring will try to return to the rest length. The force it will apply to do so scales with how far away it is from rest length.
• Velocity
  • This one speaks for itself. When you stretch the spring and then release it, it'll start accelerating. When it overshoots beyond rest length, it'll decelerate and go the other way. It oscillates.
• Stiffness
  • The stiffer a spring is, the more force it'll apply to get back to rest length.
• Damping
  • Damping is like energy loss for a given velocity. If damping is high, the spring will stop oscillating/vibrating pretty fast.

@kind magnet understood?

[kind magnet]

got it! im gonna save this in my notepad

[stable urchin]

in the context of springs there's basically three constants and two variables.
Constants:

• Rest length
• Stiffness
• Damping

Variables:

• Current length
• Velocity

ofcourse, you can make the 'constants' configurable on the fly aswell

but for now I think it's easiest to think of a spring like this

one set are inherent properties, the others are the current state of the spring

[kind magnet]

alright, this helps a lot - thank you!!

[shy basin]

removed spacing @cedar salmon

[fleet gull]

How do i pass a function through a remote event?

[fleet gull]

Im pretty sure everything inside of ReplicatedStorage loads almost immediately

Don't think you need waitforchild there

[stable urchin]

no problem. Now shifting towards how it's implemented in code. There are various forms/versions that accomplish pretty much the same thing. The easiest to understand version uses euler's method. The disadvantage is that this kind of spring loves to explode (it shoots away from intended rest length) with low or varying FPS.

There's also other flavours but I don't fully understand those myself. You'll come across them with keywords like 'angular' and probably 'torsion' aswell.

[cedar salmon]

You can still space it a little for readability, I was just saying you had too much space

[shy basin]

alr thx

[kind magnet]

lmao yeah, i'll figure that out

[fleet gull]

This is torture to my eyes

[kind magnet]

i'd say the one spring module that people tend to use could work

[fleet gull]

Space your code dude

jesus christ

[stable urchin]

this explanation isn't exhaustive but I hope it gives you a good pointer

[shy basin]

so i can remove the highligted ?

[fleet gull]

person below me is lowkey cool asf

[stable urchin]

I can't stress this enough, just play around with the code, see what happens

[kind magnet]

it does! thank you very much for your time

[fleet gull]

You don't need :WaitForChild() 'i think, dont take my word on this'

[vagrant mulch]

what the hell

[stable urchin]

btw @kind magnet I suggest you check out what a "PD" and by extension "PID" is. It's related to control circuits and has various real life applications.

and some games like From The Depths allow you to dabble with them

[vagrant mulch]

they don't

[stable urchin]

once it clicks what a "PID" actually does, you can have fun experimenting with them

[kind magnet]

alright, thanks!

[fleet gull]

Anyone here between 13 and 21?

[vagrant mulch]

👍

[shy basin]

idk

[vagrant mulch]

no im not making fun im just like looking at how long that thing is

my screen could not fit that lmao

[shy basin]

lol,

idk. its my first time doing roblox and nothing seems to be really working as i want it

[frigid token]

https://medal.tv/games/roblox-studio/clips/kdkfV3NrrspvzAIv1?invite=cr-MSxwZEwsMjQ2NjYwMzQ3
https://medal.tv/games/roblox-studio/clips/kdkg7y8Y5r6206b0k?invite=cr-MSxYQnosMjQ2NjYwMzQ3

how much should be this worth
This type of hatching and pet systen

[static coral]

wtf is that profile + bio + status ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️😭

[fleet gull]

1000-2000 robux maximum

[frigid token]

K thanks

[fleet gull]

np

[cedar salmon]

are u making this as practise or do u want to try actually sell it

[frigid token]

No no its some free model I asked because I am looking for someone to do this type of basic egg hatch and pet system

Because I tried like configuring it on my game but it got like complicated

And then didnt work

As values were different and gui didnt work

[cedar salmon]

oh alr, I mean I think you'd want a bit more polished version of that

[frigid token]

I jsut need scripts

I would handle Gui stuff

Its just I will never be scripter

[stable urchin]

check this out, still trying to find the short best video to give a breakdown (it really shouldn't be a 20 minute watch to get the gist)
https://youtu.be/UR0hOmjaHp0?si=lYyguZt5Yatk5LIJ&t=210

[surreal compass]

bro I updated the cube to a new sigma cube

my game features a new thing

[cedar salmon]

howcome

[frigid token]

I dont understand LUA and probably will never try it, although scripting is most paid and best in everything but just to hard for me to focus on modelling, building and scripting at once

[stable urchin]

helo this indian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZPrPOwA44

[stable urchin]

you xan alternate, but do what you like

personally I mainly program, since that is what makes a game work at all

[cedar salmon]

If you're already good at building and modelling you can just start learning lua on the side

[frigid token]

I mean I would love to learn scripting but 😭

[stable urchin]

it's at the heart, art is then layered ontop

[stable urchin]

yeah, what catch? time investment? 🙃

[frigid token]

Yeah I started modelling like 2,5 weeks ago

[frigid token]

Yeah

[cedar salmon]

I've never really been a fan of modelling

[frigid token]

Sadly, But

Summer soon

[cedar salmon]

I tried it but just don't like it

same with animation

[frigid token]

Tbh I tried everything and scripting was last thing on list 😭

[stable urchin]

I can give you some pointers, I'd say take it slow, calmly soak things up. Experiment. Be open for constructive criticism/feedback. Also, this: #code-help message

[stable urchin]

oh yeah, this goes for anything, but you can't say beforehand whether or nor you'll like it

[frigid token]

First words and there is problem

I think I had 5 crash outs while modeling so...

[stable urchin]

personally I find it really fun as it's a puzzle where you get to choose complexity and get big payoff of it being interactive because it's in game form

[cedar salmon]

💀

[safe nebula]

https://gyazo.com/99279907481b002e686956c9b388c354.mp4

any idea for more optimization?

[stable urchin]

something that comes to mind is lazy loading

[cedar salmon]

why did u crash out

when u were modelling

[safe nebula]

whats that

[stable urchin]

only loading running code / creating objects when needed

why create a million frames if only 100 are in view

[safe nebula]

thats basically what happens already

yea that happens already

[stable urchin]

okay, then you should be good right?

are you still having performance problems?

[safe nebula]

deleting content is a mess

[stable urchin]

content as in instances?

[safe nebula]

anyways

[stable urchin]

are you able to recycle instances?

[safe nebula]

indeed

[stable urchin]

since instance creation is stupid expensive

because of everything that happens behind the scenes

[cedar salmon]

do you only script or do u do vfx too or smth

[stable urchin]

i do vfx when necessary

I've made impact and explosion effects in the past but it's not something I really enjoy doing

[safe nebula]

yeah instances are only created on start, about 40

[stable urchin]

programming's the shit 🔥 🔥

but equal respect to making beautiful scenes, I'm mediocre at that

[silver drum]

hello everyone, i have recently began to learn to code about 1-2 weeks now, but sometimes i find myself getting annoyed and drained because i dont know how to do stuff or forget, and i dont like coping bc i feel like i dont learn, how did u guys do it starting up and moving forwards?

[stable urchin]

damn beat me to it. I've got no other ideas lol.

[cedar salmon]

Yeah I've tried to get into other stuff

but I just don't like it

[safe nebula]

system "works" but no use cases for it lol

[cedar salmon]

what sort of stuff can u do rn

and what do u get stuck on

[stable urchin]

that's fair. something that might help is coming up with some idea, some picture in your head, that you really want to recreate, in order to drive your skills in other areas.

Personally I put just enough effort into other skills so that I can at least get something functional and physical. It wont look pretty but it;ll work.

I can use blender to cut up guns into individual animatable parts

I can simulate cloths in blender to then export as mesh to decorate builds

I've learned to do basic audio editing to seamlessly loop audio and to minimize uploads by combining sfx variations into single sound assets.

[cedar salmon]

I might just try learn basic anims and such later on

rn I'm just mainly scripting and building

[stable urchin]

Good luck. Animating is its own beast. Personally I really dislike doing it xD

I've only used the roblox animator though. Heard that alternatives like Blender are a lot better. Roblox's animator is buggy as hell and rough around the edges.

[silver drum]

well currently i know how to do some variables, arithmetic, object orientation, functions, know about scope, return, parameters, if statements, else elseif statements, and a bit of events, what really troubles me is that i seeing the different ways you can combine and use all the different syntax just overwhelms me thinking about all the different ways yk, atleast i understand them and can somewhat use them

[stable urchin]

Nice. Have you looked into doing terrain work? It's its own beast but can also be awesome. It nicely combines with programming, too - have you tried procedurally generating environments/terrain? It's a rabbit hole.

[summer plume]

nope

[frigid token]

Baiters

[cedar salmon]

Are you watching the vids and then after doing the stuff on ur own

[frigid token]

I got rage baited 5 times

[summer plume]

i mean is possible if u used "Visible" but it will get more worse

[cedar salmon]

because u need to just mess around after instead of going 'yeah i understand this'

[frigid token]

They yelled at me that I should quit and press alt f4 irl

[cedar salmon]

because understanding the code is different than staring at a blank script and having to code from nothing

[stable urchin]

maybe for a datastore key browser? This indeed looks like a solution looking for a problem. xD

[safe nebula]

i guess

[lapis haven]

need help with something, when I want to set something (outside of scrolling frame) position to be directly on top of another, but it's in a scrolling frame (horizontal) and under a UILISTlayout, how am I meant to handle that?

I'm aware I need to use absoluteposition, but ive got no clue what to do w/it

[stable urchin]

that's pretty grim

[silk saddle]

who knows any good full stack scripters

[stable urchin]

if someone feels the need to ragebait, theyre not in order

[frigid token]

Yh

[safe nebula]

well what could a infinite scrolling frame be used for 🤶

[stable urchin]

If you're feeling lost on how to tackle various things, feel free to ask for directions. Are there any particular things you don't know how to tackle optimally? Is there anything you want to do?

[frigid token]

Idk man

How long does it take to learn basics-mid LUA

[wispy bane]

Since I plan on doing client-side hitbox with server-side check, how would that play out for NPC attacks? Would they also utilize the same script or something different?

stupid question.

that uh... just set in.

[lapis haven]

npcs will always be serversided

[stable urchin]

It really depends. I slowly built up my ability to program over the course of 8 years, mostly self taught. Part of the challenge is not knowing what you don't know.

[chilly canyon]

Took me 1 month to learn all the basics

[stable urchin]

@wispy bane incase you're not aware: clients can and will lie. About anything. Trust their word blindly and you'll be in a world of trouble when an exploiter comes along.

[frigid token]

So with your knowledge could you do egg system and stuff ?

Cus like this is what I am tryin to do 😭

[cedar salmon]

basics being what to you

[faint sapphire]

does anyone know why this doesnt work
basically im tryna make it so when it hovers over a part in the players plot then it glows red

[stable urchin]

yeah but I don't feel like making an egg hatching sytsem lol. I'm more into guns and armour.

[wispy bane]

yeah this one I know, but for performance and accounting for ping delay, i believe i essentially have to do client sided hitboxes and cooldowns and movement with server sided checks

[frigid token]

Dang now idk if I should learn lua or not

[stable urchin]

something I made a while ago, you can do pretty much anything after you've accumulated skills and knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPZBoVgj4o

[chilly canyon]

What

Is that an insult or

[cedar salmon]

no im asking what do u mean by basics

[chilly canyon]

Uh like variables, printing, basic principles of programming yk

Not just in Roblox l

[stable urchin]

I'd say go for it. Don't rush in, treat it as a long term trajectory that you willingly want to improve on. Make it fun for yourself, experiment, showcase things you're proud of, and look for feedback, as long as it's constructive and not just someone flaming you.

You'll learn about best practises and things/ patterns to avoid along the way

[cedar salmon]

yup

and just spam projects

[frigid token]

DAMN bro that is sooo good

[cedar salmon]

keep making stuff, please do not just watch videos

[frigid token]

I hate tutorials so how do I learn

[faint sapphire]

does anyone know why this doesnt work
basically im tryna make it so when it hovers over a part in the players plot then it glows red

[ashen bobcat]

What I like to do is see some stuff others have made and try to replicate them in your own way

Do the things you yourself enjoy

[frigid token]

But I have 0 knowledge

[wispy bane]

actually, do I have to have two different scripts for hitboxes (because server has to check client, but obviously server doesn't have to check itself when creating them)

[cedar salmon]

I personally recommend watching them

they explain stuff well and it's more organised too

[ashen bobcat]

You should learn atleast the basics

[stable urchin]

my approach in the context of roblox is just using docs page and devforum. I get results for both by just using google search engine, prefixing keywords with 'roblox docs' or 'roblox devforum '.

For programming in general, youtube is pretty good. I suggest subscribing to 3blue1brown and computerphile, among other channels, to build your general understanding of computers and math.

[ashen bobcat]

You may have to sit thru some tutorials but make sure you pause every now and then and actually experiment

[silver drum]

yes, i am currently looking at thedevking tutorials on the different syntax, when i finish a video, i try to do 10 types of assignments all different things onwhat it was that the video was teaching and also adding into it the other stuff that i have just learned previously, like legos u can combine them into infinite possibilities and thats whats hard to grasp and do for me, or another case where i cant grasp the idea that after u code a script, nothing in it physically changes like the code is still the same and wont change, but when you do something in game or what ever it somehow adds stuff? i dont even know how to explain it because i understand it but at the same time i dont?

[stable urchin]

I used to scratch my head at what print() did, which is the literal first thing you'll come across when you actually make a new script inside of roblox studio. If you climb steadily, you can achieve a lot.

[vagrant mulch]

thats really cool how did you make the tracks go around the wheels of the tank like actually spin thats the only thing im kinda like stumped on

[frigid token]

Alr thanks guys

Good night yall

[faint sapphire]

roughly a year ago i didnt know anything too, but now I know much more and am currently working on scripting my first game with a bunch of devs :)

[ashen bobcat]

Goodnight

[silver drum]

i appreciate it, it makes me feel safe in a way, and currently i kind of just want to know if i am the only one struggling with this type of closed minded one point of view thing or if others struggled as well in the beginning really

[cedar salmon]

You mean like touched events where if you touch a killbrick u lose health? cause im a little lost on ur explanation

[faint sapphire]

btw could anyone help with this? ^

[stable urchin]

it's hacky. All approaches for doing tank tracks in roblox are hacky. The trick is making it look visually correct.

In this case it's a deformable mesh. The track itself isn't actually physically simulated. It has various bones, each at one of the wheels, affecting the bottom track at that wheel's location. The bones are shifted up and down depending on wheel depression.

Then there's a scrolling texture applied to the deformable mesh to give the illusion of it going around.| I did a hack where I had 6 texture variants, each a little shifted compaerd to the last. Now that EditableImage is out, you can make this effect perfectly smooth.

[cedar salmon]

That is so cool bro, nice

[vagrant mulch]

wait so they aren't actually moving

[stable urchin]

no problem. Good luck :)

[ashen bobcat]

One day I’ll be able to understand what this means

[vagrant mulch]

Lmao thats so cool I understand the editable mesh part but like the actually wait it looked real on how it was moving is so cool

[stable urchin]

correct ;)

With graphics/simulations looking to appear realistic it's all about cutting corners wherever possible to keep things performant yet visually coherent.

in actuality the tank is more akin to an APC or car

where I do raycasting for each wheel, not for the track itself

[vagrant mulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko3gzy4cocM

like this dudes thing

[stable urchin]

as in, it really is as if the track weren't there - if anything got inbetween two wheels, it'd pass straight through the track

[stable urchin]

thanks

[stable urchin]

yeah, it just takes time to build understanding

[vagrant mulch]

very cool work 👍

[stable urchin]

it's part of what makes programming great

[wispy bane]

Question: since I'm doing client-sided hitboxes with server-sided checks for players, what should I do for NPCs? do I need to make another script that only the server can use specifically?

[stable urchin]

that moment when everything falls into place and you make something amazing

[silver drum]

well its fine dw ab it, i appreciate the help tho 🙂 it was j a ramble type thing trying to see if anyone had any struggles in the beginning and how they overcame them like no motivation, or not understanding something, if whether through time or an AHA moment or like through research, seeing if when ever i do get stuck i know that i can also j over come it w time

[stable urchin]

basically, yeah, But then with a lot more wheels on either side.

Side note, suspension looks really smooth 👌

Side note 2: With the release of shapecasting, you no longer need to do 20 raycasts per wheel to try and approximate the cylinder shape of the wheel. Now you can just 'sweep' a cylinder shape downwards.

[vagrant mulch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/771676741747867680/1190621671674105897/caption.gif

[stable urchin]

what kind of script

[vagrant mulch]

[stable urchin]

yeah I'll just pull this move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xNlzsnPCQ

[cedar salmon]

What sort of stuff have you actually tried to make/struggled on, show me some of ur scripts

i can try and understand then

[vagrant mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/mobile-suit-gundam-witch-from-mercury-suletta-spongebob-smoosh-gif-27528791

what are the blood rules in this server

[teal quiver]

this might sound dumb but is it possible to do something like a BindableFunction using the GoodSignal module???

[vagrant mulch]

I have one made

want to see it?

well I have a old verison

[stable urchin]

this is a fatal mistake - the slam created an opening for the RT-2PM2 Topol-M cold-launched three-stage solid-propellant silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile to strike, instantly taking out both of us, with a zero sum outcome.

[vagrant mulch]

of a bindablefunction / bindable event signal module

[vagrant mulch]

it is possible tho

very possible

[teal quiver]

yes but another question is that is it even necessary?

my goal is to communicate between modules using events

i make the signals in a "Util" module that can be required by the "Service" modules

[vagrant mulch]

well it lowers the amount of instances needed within in a game because people don't need to use instances they can just create script signals, also stops exploiters from reading the events information as its not even a real event ( unless they understand how the script works and somehow hooks up there own script to your module in game all to just see what info's being sent between 2 scripts of the same kind )

plus they are faster at times then roblox events

[teal quiver]

can you give an example of how an exposed event would affect the game?

bindable event/function that is

idk

[somber vault]

Can I get the link to the LUA documentation? I'm trying to use it to learn but I dont know where to find it.

[vagrant mulch]

if its seen by the local player exploiters have ways to see the type of information being sent through them

thats the first one

second

[teal quiver]

can you see bindable events in ServerScriptService?

from the client

[vagrant mulch]

is that there will now be another instance which will lead to more memory usage being used ( probably not a big deal ) but any optimization is good

[vagrant mulch]

no

here

[teal quiver]

to be honest the reason i use GoodSignal is because i hate making new instances

😭

idk it just clicks better with my brain

[teal quiver]

but please send your code example

?

[vagrant mulch]

I made this around

like 4 months ago

this is a older verison but it works the same way as the new one im gonna make / redo

[teal quiver]

can you elaborate, my brain is not processing this fully

[vagrant mulch]

basically everything you see there isn't using instances ( no bindable event no bindable function just one module script )

its one module

that acts like a real event

https://tenor.com/view/cat-throwing-brick-brick-cat-gif-9142560192559212520

[teal quiver]

wait so you didnt use GoodSignal?

[vagrant mulch]

n

[teal quiver]

now im confused

[vagrant mulch]

o

its my own module

I made

[vagrant mulch]

basically telling you yes you can make bindable functions

[vagrant mulch]

look at the images theres oninvoke

it acts like bindablefunction

[teal quiver]

@vagrant mulch thanks for the discussion, i dont think i have the mental capacity to implement this yet

for the time being i will just use a regular BindableFunction

[candid hare]

Is coding ai proof? Like i really wanna get into coding a LOT more than i currently am, possible making it a future career, but i am afraid ai will take over all coding

[vagrant mulch]

if you want i can send you a old copy of one I made a while ago its not as good as the newer one I have but it should give you a understand of how it works

it should help you make your own

if you want

[teal quiver]

thanks but im not exactly the best at writing "performant" code and i might just accidentally make memory leaks :(

[vagrant mulch]

uhhhh

kk

[teal quiver]

good day/night

[vagrant mulch]

good night

[teal quiver]

whatever the clock is for you right now

[vagrant mulch]

uh no

[vagrant mulch]

^ look what I sent a few hours ago

[stable urchin]

for the forseeable future AI won't "take over" as there's some aspects that it cannot replicate, it doesn't have human thought driving it

[vagrant mulch]

it cant replicate my passion

[stable urchin]

but it has already been applied here and there to generate new code bassd off of a pre existing code base, to speed up things like writing boilerplate code

[vagrant mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-throwing-brick-brick-cat-gif-9142560192559212520

[stable urchin]

not like that
-# but sure

[vagrant mulch]

it can't replicate me

It can't clone me

[stable urchin]

it will impregnate you

you turn around for one second

and bam

then you're getting replicated

[acoustic vigil]

dm me to make a game together

[candid hare]

No, it cant relate to human feelings either, they cant create games they like themselves

[vagrant mulch]

Wait till it finds out I’m actually a figment of your imagination

[stable urchin]

another way to put it is that they don't have actual coherent thought to steer the process

they're LLMs and LLMs are pretty much just next word predictors given the words (or technically speaking, tokens) that cam before

and chatgpt's proven to be pretty stupid requiring manual training to iron out the basic cases

[vagrant mulch]

ChatGPT beat me in a arm wrestle

[teal quiver]

@vagrant mulch okay i remembered an idea i had (sorry for the interruption again)

couldnt i just make 2 signals, one for sending and one for returning it?

after firing the first one, couldnt i just do the Wait method using the 2nd signal?

are 2 signals inefficient?

[pale condor]

Anyone knows what does pairs actually do? Cuz for loop works just as fine without it

[vagrant mulch]

Uhh for what reason

is it because your scared of memory leak?

[teal quiver]

is it better to do a custom implementation or just use a normal bindable function

instead of that idea

[hasty mesa]

legacy

[vagrant mulch]

I know

[vagrant mulch]

Use normal bindable function

But make sure there are no waits

Like task.wait

or wait

Or anything that yields the remote function

[hasty mesa]

why not just use a function

a normal function

[teal quiver]

im communicating between modules

[hasty mesa]

yeah use a normal function

local mod = {}

function mod.dosomething(x)
return x + 3
end

return mod

local mod = require(mod)
local value = mod.dosomething(x)

[vagrant mulch]

Ipairs is for tables that are in array format pairs is for tables that are in dictionary format

Think of it like that

[pale condor]

Ik that but you can also just not use either

[vagrant mulch]

Ya

[hasty mesa]

its legacy

stuff from before general iteration didn't exist

[teal quiver]

is it a good idea to do that when the modules aren't really required by a certain order by the main script?

[hasty mesa]

then if the signal isn't bindinded in the module how would it recv it

[vagrant mulch]

Idk I still like doing it as it helps people who actually know its meaning, helps them better understand the table being used

[vagrant mulch]

Throw rock at it

!

[teal quiver]

thats a good question, the signals are connected in a module's ":Initialize" method and then functions that fire signals are connected with the ":Start" method

[hasty mesa]

then you could just have a functioin

in the signal that recvs the data and returns it

[vagrant mulch]

You using single script arch or something ?

[teal quiver]

Services folder that contains a module for every custom service, then a main script

[hasty mesa]

if you want something to fire and return data its called a function

[teal quiver]

both for client and server

[peak lava]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-18026986

[vagrant mulch]

Ahh so moduler programming

[teal quiver]

yeah it looks clean

but thats probably just my opinion

[teal quiver]

but handling a function from an unrelated function seems messy

like uh

[vagrant mulch]

If you have one module script running at the same time as another and they need to at one time communicate between each other I would use bindable function to get the information. Easiest way to set up

[hasty mesa]

not really

bindable function copy data

so if you send a table it would get copied

[teal quiver]

but then it gets inconsistent when i use signal for BindableEvents and just normal BindableFunctions

[hasty mesa]

for signals just use a custom signal, for bindable functions just use a normal function

[ember nimbus]

the earth is healing

[vagrant mulch]

uhh that’s where my module scirpt I made comes in :/ but if it’s that confusing then if you really need to and you don’t wanna make your own bindable function module then just do event there and event back

[teal quiver]

so my "double signal" idea then?

[vagrant mulch]

Yes but I don’t recommend

As you’ll have to then make a system that waits for the information to be returned back

[teal quiver]

no not really

[hasty mesa]

just use a function

[teal quiver]

the :Wait method exists

:)

[hasty mesa]

or if you don't like the naming make a function wrapper

[vagrant mulch]

Oh ya right

[teal quiver]

signal:Fire()
local a = signalReturn:Wait()

[vagrant mulch]

Wrapping it like a candy bar !

[vagrant mulch]

Ya if you don’t wanna use bindable functions

[hasty mesa]

just use a normal function bruh

[vagrant mulch]

@teal quiver again if you want I can send you this module it has what you need and no bindable function instances / event instances at all . It’s a bit old that’s all

[teal quiver]

but my concern is that lets say for example there is a service to check if a player is in a zone and another service that handles points

if i want to award points when a player is in a zone, what now?

[hasty mesa]

how would that change if it was a signal

its not like signals make it parallel

[teal quiver]

you really want me to spend effort on my examples dont you :(

[vagrant mulch]

He doesn’t wanna use instances

[hasty mesa]

then use a function if you don't want to use instances

[teal quiver]

they dont, its just that it is more readable (i think) for the services to do exactly what they are named

isnt that kinda the point of a modular framework??

to split code?

[hasty mesa]

???

how does that effect a function??

[somber vault]

yo sometimes my cursor becomes a black rectangle that messes up my coding focus. How to prevent and if it happens, how to get rid of it?

[teal quiver]

why not just make it one giant script

[hasty mesa]

no i'm talking aobut having a function inside the service

[teal quiver]

at that point

[vagrant mulch]

You the turn it back

Fr fr

Problem solved

[teal quiver]

a function that the service normally shouldnt have?

[hasty mesa]

BindableFunction.OnInvoke = function()

end

service.doSomething = BindableFunction
--
local value = service.doSomething:Invoke()

function service.doSomething()

end

--
local value = service.doSomething()

[teal quiver]

but isnt that just communicating in the same module?

[hasty mesa]

no?

you require the module

and call its functions

the same way you require a module and index the signal

and fire it

[teal quiver]

i dont require other services from another service

[hasty mesa]

how you going to fire the signal then

[teal quiver]

i tried that before, actually im replacing the current system because it is a mess

in my opinion

[teal quiver]

utility module that contains all the signals

that services can require

[charred shore]

how do i type the text to lua color?

[candid hare]

Yeah, AI is a tool, not an autonomous engineer.

[hasty mesa]

so where are the code for the signals located

[vagrant mulch]

That’s a instance what he doesn’t wanna use

[hasty mesa]

that was an example

i'm not creating a function using two signals

[teal quiver]

code of the function that signals connect to, or the code that makes the signals?

[hasty mesa]

where the signals connect

[teal quiver]

a signal is fired pretty much anywhere in a function that is connected from :Start in the beginning

[hasty mesa]

so how do you store the signal in the shared util

[teal quiver]

a signal is connected to a function in :Initialize

[vagrant mulch]

Someone smells here

[teal quiver]

basic as it can get:

Util.Signals = {
}

[hardy pilot]

Sorry that's @placid agate

[vagrant mulch]

Ahh kk understandable

[placid agate]

i am minding my own business... what the hell bro???

[hardy pilot]

Oh like

local Signal = Utils.Signal

Signal.new()

When using it?

[hasty mesa]

local Util = ...
local Module = {}

function Module.doSomething()

end

function Module.init()
    Util.doSomething = Module.doSomething
end

[vagrant mulch]

HES CLOSER HES GONNA STINK THE PLACE UP!

[hardy pilot]

[teal quiver]

that looks like it can work

let me test

[hardy pilot]

Gays

[lavish peak]

:moyai:

[vagrant mulch]

You are stinking up chat

Pls take shower

[acoustic vigil]

dm me to make a game together

[teal quiver]

yeah that works, thanks

though i should keep normal signals right?

[hasty mesa]

yeah you can

[teal quiver]

alright im going to sleep now

thanks everyone

[silver drum]

hello, i recently started to learn to code and wanting to make games, but recently a thought came into mind and i am a bit afraid of hey what if i make a game, and lets say its really good and is potential to blow up actually, but then there is a better/ more experienced people or groups from taking the idea or game andtaking the credit for it all? what can i even do about it other than holding off on publishing until its completely complete?

[ripe plume]

well tbh most ppl are too lazy to even care about copying it 😂

[silver drum]

if u look at the for example dead rails, there was a game before it that was similar concept, and when dead rails came out it exploded n not a word of the other game until a while later but that was too late

[fierce fern]

i mean dead rails took inspiration and made it even better, didn't they?

[ripe plume]

yeah true

[ripe plume]

well stuff will always be copied and inspired by if its good cant rly stop it imo

[fierce fern]

if they outright copy assets and stuff like that then you could copyright them but taking inspiration is ok

[velvet vapor]

Can someone reply to me? I don’t understand do I get notifications about replies or not

[somber vault]

where should the song id be in this script to interact with the sound icon ui?

[velvet vapor]

Thanks

[shrewd narwhal]

Fill the sound's id properties on soundservice

[silver drum]

true but thing is like damn, if i were the original game i would kinda be pissed because didnt give me a chance to even grow or wut ever ToT and improve my thing

[silver drum]

well thats true ig, j a scary thought bc wut if u have a rly good game but someone else takes it n it becomes #1 off ur game

[silver drum]

whats the line between taking inspiration and just copying but changing things up

[quiet sigil]

anyone good at optimizing gun games

im kinda a beginner and need some pointers 😢

[wind pasture]

Does anybody want to help me make a Roblox game????

[safe creek]

Whats the difference between initializing util as ... and a regular table, either way it can take any number of values

[blissful ruin]

So yall know how the player is made up of like meshparts, ive seen games able to change the material of the player, how could i change the material because you cant just set the parts.material to enum.material as that wont work.

[iron skiff]

do u do comms?

[wispy bane]

no and i'm a beginner scripter so you likely wouldn't get much good outta me anyway

[rancid bay]

stop asking in these channels and put a post out in #scripter-hiring 🙏

[shut yarrow]

Most games don't blow up, especially if u don't have a marketing budget. If u start marketing ur game before release and somehow it gets really popular but also the gameplay and theme is clear to anyone, a big studio will copy it and u can't do nothing about it

[copper heart]

how much would someone charge to fix a data bug?

[fierce fern]

whats the bug

[shut yarrow]

It depends how serious the bug is. If it's serious and ur game is literally dying then honestly id pay them 10k USD to fix my game

[fierce fern]

i better be making millions off of that roblox game to be paying 10k USD to fix it tf

money aint cheap

[copper heart]

its a starter car selection. it works but the thing keeps coming back when u join back

it saves the car u select but the stuff is coming back for u to select it again

[fierce fern]

i dont know how your system works so i cant help you until you literally start telling us every single thing thats supposed to happen and what isn't happening

[copper heart]

you load in, the menu thing pops up, you select which starter car you want, it saves that to your inventory, it shouldnt pop up that screen again. right now it pops up that screen again

[fierce fern]

are you even checking if the player selected a car in the past before you show them the menu

you're using datastores right

[copper heart]

yes

i dont rlly know how this code works

im newer

dms

[ancient halo]

Whats a good way to aintain numbers

I'm trying to make it so that whenever I jump I keep going in the direction I was moving in.

I also wanna give the player the ability to change direction, but im not sure how

if self:isGrounded() then
        self.jumpVelo.PlaneVelocity = Vector2.new(self.moveDir.X, self.moveDir.Z)
    end

[true fulcrum]

#cmds

[safe nebula]

helloo i made a infinite scrollingframe and need usecases for it, idk what to use it for

[ripe plume]

maybe u can sell it to big tech for an infinte tos list

[safe nebula]

[remote bear]

a super fast display

[urban peak]

how much should i pay for like a dead rails gun system

[whole schooner]

im 6 year scripter and wdym gun system?

[copper jay]

does anyone know if there is a way to simulate stress on ProfileService?

[whole schooner]

i mean not really but could use concurrent for like player join and player leave