code-discussion

[glacial kestrel]

im stuck with these newgens

[bleak glade]

how does this work

[abstract dagger]

whats grey role

what is the significance of role colours

[glacial kestrel]

by changing a middle c4 tone

[abstract dagger]

how do i get the blue one it looks cool

[glacial kestrel]

its like 360 hz i think

i forgot

440?

[abstract dagger]

oh

[glacial kestrel]

anyways

change the hz frequency extremely fast and you start getting audible audio

[bleak glade]

but how does it know to pick up pc audio i thought it was locked to its exe

[glacial kestrel]

thats pretty much the jist of it

[glacial kestrel]

i stream it

i have a little flask server

[abstract dagger]

oh that's cool

[glacial kestrel]

its really inefficient rn

on my pc

[abstract dagger]

didn't know u can do that

[glacial kestrel]

nothing special

but thanks to httpservice i can send whatever my pc is recording

over to roblox

[copper apex]

Thats interesting

[glacial kestrel]

aka just the pitch frequencies

[abstract dagger]

idk how roblox's httpservice works

[glacial kestrel]

i send it in batches

[abstract dagger]

is it just normal crud methods

[copper apex]

Just for website stuff basically

[abstract dagger]

rest api or whatever

[glacial kestrel]

its pretty much just rest api support

yeah

[abstract dagger]

that makes sense

[glacial kestrel]

you can do cool ass shit with it

[bleak glade]

i thought you couldnt send requests to roblox with http

[abstract dagger]

ive never used it

[bleak glade]

only send request from roblox to a server

[glacial kestrel]

not to roblox, other way around

yeah

[copper apex]

I used it with trello API long time ago for IP bans

[glacial kestrel]

roblox asks my server to send stuff over

in batches

[abstract dagger]

wait lowk thats kinda badass

is ur server hosted on anything or is it just your pc

[glacial kestrel]

i wish i had a video

but i also made screenshare

and with it i could pair audio

to make a livestream

p much

[glacial kestrel]

nah self hosted

[abstract dagger]

might have to try out httpservice

[glacial kestrel]

i use cloudflare tunnels to get it exposed on the internet

since you cant use http://localhost

[abstract dagger]

that website looks like mine

tf

[glacial kestrel]

?

localhost is your own computer

[abstract dagger]

yea just jk

[glacial kestrel]

i explain shit poorly

[abstract dagger]

😭

[glacial kestrel]

for the funsies

yo computer comunicating with itself........

[abstract dagger]

never used cloudflare before

i usually just host shit on google cloud

[glacial kestrel]

i mainly just use it to create tunnels

oh cool

vps right?

[abstract dagger]

yea

latency kinda sucks

[glacial kestrel]

i had a

like actual server on hetzner

but i didnt pay it so bwomp

[abstract dagger]

😭

how much monthly?

[glacial kestrel]

bloom is also pretty good

i think it was 25 dollars

[plush lichen]

@bleak glade you said you were 5 months in right

[abstract dagger]

25 bludclart dollars

[glacial kestrel]

defo more costly than a vps

[abstract dagger]

😭

[bleak glade]

yea

[glacial kestrel]

those are like

5 dollars a month right

[plush lichen]

how do you like it so far

do you find it fun

[bleak glade]

luau is free asf

[abstract dagger]

u ever use aws?

[glacial kestrel]

hi im 7 years in and i FUCKING HATE IT

im joking

love hate relationship

[bleak glade]

i find it fun working on passion projects with a cool team, like one im in now

[glacial kestrel]

sometimes i get bursts

[plush lichen]

my friend got rich after coding for like 2 years im tryna get like him 😢

[glacial kestrel]

no not really

[bleak glade]

i didnt even realize i was working with a dress to impress dev on smth

[glacial kestrel]

i dont want to touch that hellspawn

amazon

[abstract dagger]

their documentations kinda long

[glacial kestrel]

ecs3 instance being left on

nightmare

[plush lichen]

you make a decent bit of $ off this yet or you still just making shit for fun

[bleak glade]

a few thousand only so far, but im hitting bigger projects now with bigger teams so it will go up

[glacial kestrel]

for only 5 months?

not bad

[bleak glade]

yea

[glacial kestrel]

ive been developing on roblox for

like 4-5 years i think???

[copper apex]

I started writing in luau when I was young when all I did was played roblox, thank god I was, vim and neovim's dotfiles are annoying

[glacial kestrel]

most of the years were spent

[plush lichen]

ngl i can't believe how similar this shit is to just building a normal web app

[glacial kestrel]

doing passion projects

[abstract dagger]

i am bad at coding

[glacial kestrel]

with friends

[plush lichen]

im surprised how quickly i'm picking it up

[glacial kestrel]

they never went anywhere but it was fun asf

[bleak glade]

i had prior experience though

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

same before starting on roblox

i mainly used python before

[bleak glade]

i used c

[glacial kestrel]

pretty vanilla but its whatever

[glacial kestrel]

i started with c 😭

[bleak glade]

i like c

[glacial kestrel]

for like a year when i was a toddler

yeah its not bad

[abstract dagger]

damn guys i started with lua cus i thought roblox games were cool

[copper apex]

Go >>>>

[plush lichen]

backend languages 😷

[copper apex]

I freaking love Go

[bleak glade]

rust

[glacial kestrel]

😭

we got the duality of man

[loud iron]

🐈‍⬛

[glacial kestrel]

anyways I WILL but myself in and share my own little experience

[plush lichen]

we got any cpp fans

[bleak glade]

i would never start with lua if i thought about pursing computer science

[plush lichen]

why not?

lua is so simple

[bleak glade]

it has no actual use outside

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

[bleak glade]

nothing to put on a portfolio

[glacial kestrel]

runescape maybe

[abstract dagger]

i started lua back in 2011, that spiralled into my love for coding

[glacial kestrel]

or gta5 online

[plush lichen]

i mean its used in a lot of games

hades is built on lua

[abstract dagger]

i'm a cs student now

[glacial kestrel]

i think lua is having a rise in popularity though outside of roblox

[glacial tiger]

I feel like you'd learn Lua for a grasp on coding and general logic

[glacial kestrel]

its a great language overall

its simple but really fast

[glacial tiger]

Just like how you'd learn GameMaker (forgot the name)

[bleak glade]

start with c fr

[glacial kestrel]

surprisingly fast

[copper apex]

I am a physics major, so I only started taking programming seriously like a year ago, but it has been really helpful (also with roblox luau, it taught me some logic and foundation)

[plush lichen]

lua is like python in terms of simplicity

[glacial kestrel]

ya

[bleak glade]

you need to start with a language that gives the author more control

[glacial kestrel]

lua is simpler

[bleak glade]

so you can learn how things work

[abstract dagger]

idk, i think the opposite

[plush lichen]

idk python is essentially pure english

[abstract dagger]

i think people should start easy and learn about things more in-depth later on

to each their own

[glacial kestrel]

i hate the fucking

:

[plush lichen]

yea bottom up is always best

[bleak glade]

https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/tree/master this is the luau src its written mostly in cpp

[abstract dagger]

goat

[plush lichen]

me when high level languages

[glacial kestrel]

i like the simplicity of c

[copper apex]

I actually started with Java

[glacial kestrel]

not the GARBAGE in cpp

[bleak glade]

no

[copper apex]

Idk why people hate on Java its a good language

[abstract dagger]

java's ok

idm it

[bleak glade]

cpp isnt garbage it just has so many random addons

[glacial kestrel]

I FUCKING HATE THEM.

[mint cloud]

10/10 ragebait

[abstract dagger]

not as bad as people complain abt

[bleak glade]

but you dont even have to use them

[glacial kestrel]

havent tried java yet

[plush lichen]

java's the goat

[bleak glade]

hate java ngl

[abstract dagger]

java too goated

[plush lichen]

idk if i should pursue a big tech job or roblox developing

[mint cloud]

1/10 ragebait

[glacial kestrel]

i use deno but never tried java 😭

[abstract dagger]

springboot

[copper apex]

Java is fun

[plush lichen]

i'm gonna be interning at amazon this summer

🔥

[bleak glade]

you only need rust and c

[abstract dagger]

been wanting to learn rust ngl

[mint cloud]

It’s like u want a j*b or something

[abstract dagger]

censor fully pls

[plush lichen]

idk... its either a **b or gamble my time away on roblox devving

[bleak glade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1218160678720765953/1286361728233242665/togif.gif

[mint cloud]

Gamble 🤑🤑

[abstract dagger]

censor fully pls

[copper apex]

Ayee

[glacial kestrel]

https://www.roblox.com/games/123681931748764/Wait-1-Million-Seconds

[copper apex]

Congrats

[glacial kestrel]

rate my slop

[plush lichen]

ty ty

[glacial kestrel]

yeah good job bro

[bleak glade]

what happens in the end

[glacial kestrel]

you die

thats it

[plush lichen]

honestly i dont want a big tech job if i know there's people like yall around

[glacial kestrel]

ts actually the first "successful" project 😭

[plush lichen]

making 2x my salary with less work

[abstract dagger]

did u make a video on this?

[glacial kestrel]

peaked at like 700 ccu

[bleak glade]

bros gonna turn down an amazon job for roblox 💀

[abstract dagger]

"how i made game in 2 days"

[mint cloud]

11 days to die…

[glacial kestrel]

that was another guy

[abstract dagger]

i remember seeing a vid on a game like that

😭

[glacial kestrel]

that me and someone else copied off of

[abstract dagger]

apparently that guy made like 10k off the game

[glacial kestrel]

someone else did it faster than me

[copper apex]

Roblox money is all about marketing its pretty rare a game goes really good without its marketing

[plush lichen]

like i said, friend picked up coding like 1-2 years ago and is now owner of a 15k ccu making like 600k

id have to wait like 10 years to even approach that

[glacial kestrel]

yeah not surprised tbh

[bleak glade]

your game has a 38% like ratio

[glacial kestrel]

ts like

[abstract dagger]

there are some ideas that you only think about once you've seen it

[glacial kestrel]

600k in 3 weeks

[abstract dagger]

"ohhh i shoulda done that"

[glacial kestrel]

its so stupid

[abstract dagger]

😭

[glacial kestrel]

ive been spending years on high quality shit

[bleak glade]

youre gambling

go into a casino at that point

[glacial kestrel]

winning a couple of neat awards

[abstract dagger]

kinda sucks cus some high quality games have low player counts

[glacial kestrel]

thats it

[bleak glade]

id die to have an amazon offer

[glacial kestrel]

but i spend

[copper apex]

Both a blessing and curse, you get to see how they implemented it, but they implemented it first in the first place

[glacial kestrel]

1 FUCKING WEEK

on slop

[plush lichen]

no you would not

[glacial kestrel]

600k robux

[bleak glade]

yes i would

[glacial kestrel]

you would be stuck in solitary confinement 😭

[plush lichen]

its pretty easy seeing as how they get like 10k interns a summer

[abstract dagger]

i would like amazon in the future too

maybe google in the further future

[bleak glade]

but its worth it

[plush lichen]

no way you guys would choose amazon over a full time roblox dev making wtv u want

[glacial kestrel]

ive heard that faang is not worth it

[bleak glade]

i already am with how much i script a day

[abstract dagger]

i am hoping to do that too

[glacial kestrel]

tbh its

[plush lichen]

are u not at that point yet

[glacial kestrel]

really just luck and ingenuity

[abstract dagger]

no

[bleak glade]

i dont even get to make what i want, i just pick and choose jobs

[plush lichen]

whats stopping you from making a game

[bleak glade]

the best thing is most of my jobs are the same so i can reuse code

[glacial kestrel]

whats his game anyway

[bleak glade]

risk

marketing

[plush lichen]

if your game is half decent and you pour a good amount of money into advertising, isn't there a good chance for it to be successful

[glacial kestrel]

it depends*

[abstract dagger]

put gambling in it and yea

[glacial kestrel]

i thought that too

[abstract dagger]

it's successful

[plush lichen]

my friends game isn't exactly ingenius in any way

nor is it blowing any standards

[bleak glade]

i have connections so ill probably get a few big jobs

[abstract dagger]

i've come to realise people like being rewarded for the bare minimum

[glacial kestrel]

i learned a lot on my little slop 38% like ratio journey

[plush lichen]

who doesn't

everyone wants big rewards for low risk

[abstract dagger]

make an afk simulator with your money going up every second and u can buy pets to make the money go faster

[glacial kestrel]

it depends mainly on the stats and what the game is making

you just need the game to START going in the algo

i spent 15k on ads

robux

[plush lichen]

i realize people just like watching numbers grow

[glacial kestrel]

and with it i naturally peaked to 700

[plush lichen]

it really scratches an itch

in your brain

[mint cloud]

Fr

[glacial kestrel]

it does

[abstract dagger]

it's just dopamine overload

[mint cloud]

That’s why I gamble

[bleak glade]

i use to gamble a lot but quit

[abstract dagger]

atp flash the screen with numbers

[plush lichen]

idk its just a number going up not sure why dopamine has to go up with it

[mint cloud]

You used to be goated unc

[abstract dagger]

[bleak glade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1310586743409479763/1367703748700540969/attachment.gif

[plush lichen]

anyways on a real question

for combat games do people use normal sphagetti lua logic or build their own custom modules for things like ragdolling

[bleak glade]

what do you mean by normal luau logic

[abstract dagger]

build modules

[plush lichen]

like non modular logic

[glacial kestrel]

shit i didnt even have decent stats

i just made good money

[bleak glade]

i use modularity for everything

[glacial kestrel]

and that was enough for roblox

[bleak glade]

and i can tell you combat games will too

[glacial kestrel]

my qptr once was like 3%

[mint cloud]

I don’t think that’s how u spell spaghetti 🙏

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

[abstract dagger]

build modules to make things more convenient

[plush lichen]

shh

[glacial kestrel]

be modular

[bleak glade]

trust me im modular

[plush lichen]

i'm learning so much from this chat

[glacial kestrel]

i can see

how modular

[abstract dagger]

[mint cloud]

You’re also a cs major so…

[plush lichen]

we love OOP

[abstract dagger]

my cs goat

[bleak glade]

what does this correlate to

[abstract dagger]

we are cooked together

[plush lichen]

ngl colleges should just make you make a roblox game

[hasty mesa]

r = 1

[plush lichen]

to teach OOP

[mint cloud]

All cs majors are skids

[plush lichen]

instead of their bs courses

[mint cloud]

Helped == 0

[abstract dagger]

i taught roblox in my uni as part of a small event😭

[glacial kestrel]

wtf 😭

i want to teach roblox too

[plush lichen]

no..

[abstract dagger]

it was for a bunch of kids

[glacial kestrel]

i also have to bring terrible news

[abstract dagger]

they were pretty engaged

[mint cloud]

How did Roblox get to your uni

[glacial kestrel]

the investors are starting to flood the market

[bleak glade]

no YOURE cooked

[glacial kestrel]

it was pretty obvious with companies like dobig or indigo

[mint cloud]

Was David baszuki there

[abstract dagger]

there's an event where kids come in to learn stuff about college, and they usually play roblox games on the computer instead of paying attention

[plush lichen]

tbh roblox developing is a lot less complicated than web developing since a lot of the environment is already set up for you so yea teaching kids is probably not even half bad

[abstract dagger]

so they thought of an idea to make roblox a small part of it

[glacial kestrel]

but i was talking to a few people and they were genuinely considering roblox as an investment opportunity 😭

and they arent wrong too

the word that scared me the most was flourishing market

heed my words you newgens

[bleak glade]

why buy roblkox stock when you can buy the games

[abstract dagger]

yea true

they loved it

[mint cloud]

Invest in enron

[glacial kestrel]

they are coming

[plush lichen]

if u tried to teach web devving

[glacial kestrel]

no i mean theyre BUYING the games

theyre INVESTING

[plush lichen]

they would've stared into nothing

the whole time

[abstract dagger]

web dev was also part of that small event too 😭

[bleak glade]

i heard do big bought the garden game

[glacial kestrel]

they did

they literally buy out anything

[mint cloud]

CSS is an abomination prove me wrong

[plush lichen]

like wdym i gotta learn 10 different technologies that aren't already set up automatically and buy my own servers 😢

[bleak glade]

gotta be like 100m in that account

usd

[glacial kestrel]

were in the process of making a deal with them too 😭

[plush lichen]

the worse part of web devving.

[glacial kestrel]

like theyre actual

sharks

we tryna hustle them for 10k to buy out our game

[bleak glade]

10 hours to change padding

[glacial kestrel]

its a good price

[plush lichen]

css is such a nightmare, worse than db setup or backend api creation or ANYTHING

[abstract dagger]

😭

[plush lichen]

FUCK CSS

[bleak glade]

usd or robux

[glacial kestrel]

usd

[plush lichen]

and those psychos who do css as their job professionally

[mint cloud]

#anticss

[plush lichen]

have all my respect

[glacial kestrel]

its pennies to them and genuinely worth it for both parties

shits a good idea we just got royally hoed by roblox

[mint cloud]

Holdup anticss would kinda be a fire username

[abstract dagger]

anticss

[plush lichen]

20 hours to learn why my components aren't stacking correctly

[abstract dagger]

that's just a word with an extra s

[plush lichen]

its called figma

the anticss

[mint cloud]

Ye but also anti css

[bleak glade]

i would never be a front end developer

[glacial kestrel]

why are you guys using css

[abstract dagger]

never used figma but i heard it was good for ui?

[glacial kestrel]

arent there like

[bleak glade]

react.js

[glacial kestrel]

a hundred wrappers and

thingamajigs

[plush lichen]

yes but its all just css

[mint cloud]

What is a figma
Is it like ligma

[plush lichen]

there's no alternative

[glacial kestrel]

theyre all css but more bearable

[plush lichen]

no they're not bearable at all

[glacial kestrel]

they tried to fix css

but they tried to fix each other

and now its a race to see who can fix the other the fastest

[plush lichen]

look at tailwind

[bleak glade]

just dont be a front end developer

[glacial kestrel]

thats why web dev SUCKS

[plush lichen]

you're gonna spend 10 hours going through docs

trying to read what each one means

[abstract dagger]

i love tailwind

[glacial kestrel]

thats why people pick their own tribes

[bleak glade]

seems understandable to me

[glacial kestrel]

to live in and defend

its like the

[plush lichen]

it is until you realize there's like 100 diff tags for each element

[glacial kestrel]

hold on

i think this can be said for you roblox datastore cronies

[bleak glade]

white = lower values in 100 increments

from what i see

[abstract dagger]

where

i can't see

[plush lichen]

so cancer

fuck css

and everything to do with it i'd rather be a backend dev all day

[abstract dagger]

what does it look like

[plush lichen]

no clue cause I CAN'T READ IT

[abstract dagger]

☠️

[plush lichen]

i'd rather make api routes all day than ts, its acutal torture

[glacial kestrel]

theres an actual debate on the devforums about which datastore wrapper you should use

[bleak glade]

looks like an image thats centered

[abstract dagger]

what's a good one

i have barely any experience in datastores ngl

[bleak glade]

normal datastoreservice

[glacial kestrel]

THEYRE ALL THE FUCKING DSAME.

USE WHATEVER YOU WANT

[abstract dagger]

my fault og 😭

httpservice and firebase

[glacial kestrel]

ermmmmmmmmmm the API acktualy has everything it needsLIKE SHUT UP.

youre not getting that sdm dih

[bleak glade]

its just table and key at the end of the day

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

[plush lichen]

just dictionary but online

[glacial kestrel]

i still use valuebases for it

[bleak glade]

[glacial kestrel]

i wont let myself get beaten down by newgens

i stand on my reign of valuebases

[glacial kestrel]

im not actually storing the

[mint cloud]

Actual*

[glacial kestrel]

instance itself into a table

[bleak glade]

you cant even

im pretty sure

[glacial kestrel]

the valuebases act as a two way

[bleak glade]

maybe a ref idk

[glacial kestrel]

what do you call it

replicator

if you change the valuebase so does the db value

if you change the db value so does the valuebase

[bleak glade]

no

[glacial kestrel]

amazing auto replication

[bleak glade]

you have to setasync the new data

[glacial kestrel]

yeah but point it

whatever changes i do to the valuebase

value

also gets transferred over to the ds via setasync

thats the point

two way

[bleak glade]

too confusing

[abstract dagger]

how's security on it tho

[glacial kestrel]

i explain things badly

[abstract dagger]

feels kinda easily manipulatableable

[glacial kestrel]

its on the server

[bleak glade]

yeah

[glacial kestrel]

you cant really

[bleak glade]

if its on the server it cant be manipulated

[glacial kestrel]

i meant it replicates on the server

[bleak glade]

unless you suck at securing your remotes

[abstract dagger]

that makes sense

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

the ds value for each player gets materialized in a valuebase so that i can easily take a look at it

in real time

and also take a look at it on the client

[bleak glade]

stored as a json to your server?

or printed

[glacial kestrel]

no

let me just

[bleak glade]

or do you mean dexexplorer

[abstract dagger]

i want to see too

[bleak glade]

because theyre values

[abstract dagger]

[glacial kestrel]

this is slop

this took me a week

the codes shit but its making me the most amount of money

[bleak glade]

a week for that seems a little long

[abstract dagger]

so you change one of these values and it changes the the one on your db?

[lofty plinth]

🥀

[glacial kestrel]

no the game itself

i had that little ds system for a while

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

its roblox datastores so you just gotta like

wait for setasync to kick in every 5 minutes

or leave

[bleak glade]

it already would

[abstract dagger]

oh wait

[bleak glade]

if its changed and they leave, as long as it setsasync on leave it would already save though

[abstract dagger]

that's kinda cool

[bleak glade]

so why the extra step

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

wdym

oh

[bleak glade]

changing it in real time ot the datastore

[abstract dagger]

why setasync if you can leave

[glacial kestrel]

roblox servers can shit themselves

[abstract dagger]

yea icl

[bleak glade]

bindtoclose checks though

[glacial kestrel]

causing some problems with the whole

very unstable in my experience

ive worked with large scale projects and that usually fails

so the 5 minute set async timer acts as a failsave

[abstract dagger]

kind of a hit or miss, mostly miss tho so it makes sense why u need that timer

[glacial kestrel]

its good

[abstract dagger]

i will steal it

[bleak glade]

i guess that works

[abstract dagger]

thank you stef

[bleak glade]

i dont think ive ever had a server shutdown while playing though

[glacial kestrel]

well

its rare but

if your data gets reset to the last time you played

youd be pretty pissed

on a game ive worked on this was actually pretty common

we had events and pretty much one single reserved server

so a server of 100 people would fill up at once and cause some issues

like crashing and it not being able to detect it

[bleak glade]

100 people in a server is likely to cause issues

[abstract dagger]

yea

[glacial kestrel]

very likely

i wasnt the one responsible for the whole

way they organized thing so im in the clear

[bleak glade]

ive heard about replicaservice for replication too

[glacial kestrel]

oh yeah ive heard

[bleak glade]

i mostly just use instances so the clients can read them

for changed checks with UI and whatever

[glacial kestrel]

EXACTLY

i depend on .changed heavily

"heavily"

[bleak glade]

for ui def

[glacial kestrel]

mainly for ui things that display stuff like currency

[abstract dagger]

what's that for? just replicating stuff but easier?

[glacial kestrel]

.changed is great there

im being shouted by my team about it

[glacial kestrel]

but im stubborn on my values

and ill treasure them

[glacial kestrel]

in roblox you have things called valuebases

theyre like little objects where they can contain some data

[abstract dagger]

could be literally anything that can store values right?

[bleak glade]

values are numbers usually

theres other types though

[bleak glade]

vector3, color3, cframe i think

strings

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

[abstract dagger]

that makes sense

[glacial kestrel]

its like an actual instance

and thanks to roblox

you can actually DETECT when this instance changes

[bleak glade]

are numbervalues u64?

[glacial kestrel]

dk

probs

[abstract dagger]

oh with .Changed

[glacial kestrel]

yeah exactly

[bleak glade]

i tihink u32 they go to 9.223 qn iirc

[glacial kestrel]

and that makes it really useful for stuff like

ui

where you can use .Changed every time the currency amount changes

[abstract dagger]

holy shit

you're right

i was experimenting with this a while back, i didn't know it was the best way to do it

[bleak glade]

oh i was wrong

numbervaleus represent f64

i didnt know they can take doubles

[glacial kestrel]

oh

srs?

didnt know that

[glacial kestrel]

as an example

moneyyy

hell yeah

this is a value that gets given to the player

[glacial kestrel]

money increases when this increasing

its purely dependant on this value

that holds the amount of money someone has

[abstract dagger]

right, and you use .changed on a localscript to change the text to whatever money based on the valuebase in the player instance?

[glacial kestrel]

yeah

this is a pretty shit example

always on slop

[bleak glade]

changed or propertychanged signal

[abstract dagger]

nah that makes sense

[glacial kestrel]

i use changed

less writing

[bleak glade]

i like signals

[abstract dagger]

i find .changed to be more consistent

[glacial kestrel]

and pretty much the same

[snow heron]

Hey everyone just to confirm theres no way to tell if a player is on Xbox or PlayStation correct?

[glacial kestrel]

yeah fair enough

[bleak glade]

gamepad

its a boolean with userinputservice

[snow heron]

I meant being able to specifically tell if they're on a PS5 or an Xbox 🙃

[abstract dagger]

didnt know that existed ngl

[glacial kestrel]

i should probably do stuff in my game

[bleak glade]

i dont think theres a real distinct difference though

based on inputs

[glacial kestrel]

erm

[lofty plinth]

U can get the keycode icon for X Y ect... and itll return it specific for PlayStation or Xbox

I believe thats the only real way to get the different devices (they might of added smth since then)

[abstract dagger]

prolly rt/lt and r1/l1

[snow heron]

Could you please elaborate? It would be super helpful 🙏

[lofty plinth]

GetImageForKeyCode

[snow heron]

So if a player is on PlayStation, it will return something like the triangle icon AssetId?

[lofty plinth]

Yes

Thats the only real way to get the device rn from my knowledge

[snow heron]

Alright man appreciate the help thanks 🙏

[lofty plinth]

U can also just get the players last input keycode for the device but that relies on an input first

[white aurora]

When should i use contextactionservice over userinputservice?

[rugged island]

make module to automatically bind values and returns a function you want it to dj

And then when player leaves you can close the connections to free memeoru

ez

[spare reef]

What should I make as a beginner scripter that will challenge me

Also not a full game

[plush lichen]

anything u want

what do you want to make

[jolly vessel]

Twerking simulator

[spare reef]

But like seriously

Idk what I want to make

[jolly vessel]

Ask google or chatgpt

[spare reef]

I mean I have game ideas. But most of it’s too advanced

[jolly vessel]

Tell me the ideas

[spare reef]

Nah u gonna steal

[jolly vessel]

Idc about your games bro

I just wanna know

[abstract dagger]

😭

[plush lichen]

go make a gun

go make an m1 system

go make a parry system

go make an inventory system

go make anything

[spare reef]

That’s too hard

[abstract dagger]

then you won't learn

[plush lichen]

those are literally starter things

to learn

[spare reef]

No like I wouldn’t even be able to start it

I’m like beginner beginner

[plush lichen]

go learn how to print something

[abstract dagger]

just make a part change colour when a player touches it

[spare reef]

I know how to do that

[plush lichen]

go learn how to print 1 to 10 in a loop

[spare reef]

For that to

[spare reef]

I know how bro 😭

[plush lichen]

man then go make one of the systems

[abstract dagger]

idk bro

[plush lichen]

like what

[craggy niche]

challenge urself to make a combat system

and learn along the way

that’s how i taught myself

[spare reef]

I’ve never done anything with animations

Actually

[abstract dagger]

yea if u have the mindset that's like "yea that's too hard i'm not gonna try" then it's just gonna hold u back

who cares about animations, just make it bro

[spare reef]

Wdym combat system

[abstract dagger]

punch and hit do damage

love you bro you got it

[craggy niche]

punches that deal damage

blocks that make u not take damage

[spare reef]

Oh

[plush lichen]

bro wants a step yb step

[spare reef]

Don’t u have to make a hit box for that

[craggy niche]

yea

[spare reef]

Bro stop being rude

[abstract dagger]

yea just learn

not even being rude, it's just how you learn

[plush lichen]

ok go make a system

a m1 animation + m1 to connect to remote -> fire remote -> server fires hitbox -> find people in hitbox -> do dmg

[craggy niche]

if everything someone suggests, either u say u alr know or u say its too hard, u never learn new things

[spare reef]

What’s m1

[plush lichen]

mouse button 1

[abstract dagger]

left click

[craggy niche]

are animations easy to make? i might become animator too

[plush lichen]

no fuck animations

[craggy niche]

aswell as script and UI

[frigid thorn]

A hitbox is one part

[craggy niche]

oh

[craggy niche]

don’t people use ray casting tho

[frigid thorn]

He's a beginner

[spare reef]

Bro I’m new u don’t gotta be rude about me not knowing what m1 is

[frigid thorn]

No need for that

[craggy niche]

ik im asking ng

[craggy niche]

everyone knows m1, it’s not a scripting thing

[spare reef]

Oh well

[plush lichen]

raycasting is for projectiles

[spare reef]

I just got a pc recently

Never heard anyone say m1 before

[abstract dagger]

all good

[craggy niche]

people use for combat systems too tho, i use it in mine

[abstract dagger]

u should follow a yt tutorial lowkey

[jolly vessel]

No

[plush lichen]

yes but again for projectiles not melee attacks

[abstract dagger]

people used to

like way back

[jolly vessel]

What 💀 raycasting is trash for melee

[craggy niche]

pretty sure i do

[abstract dagger]

before shapecast and getpartsboundinbox

[craggy niche]

what’s better?

[plush lichen]

it's like using a gun's trajectory for melee attacks

[spare reef]

Idek what raycasting is

[plush lichen]

makes 0 sense

[craggy niche]

normal hitboxes are ass

[spare reef]

This is a different language bro

[craggy niche]

maybe it’s not ray casting i thinking of

[frigid thorn]

Don't worry about that

[craggy niche]

we aren’t speaking to u

[abstract dagger]

when you shoot a laser and it hits someone

[craggy niche]

so u are fine

u don’t need to worry

[jolly vessel]

There are some nerdy ways to use raycasts for melee or swords

[spare reef]

Ok

[frigid thorn]

Just make SIMPLE m1s

[craggy niche]

what do i use then?

[plush lichen]

yea but like why would u ever

[craggy niche]

normal hitbox that doesn’t move and is ass?

[plush lichen]

fire a hitbox, use partsinbound or .touched for more simpler uses

[spare reef]

I’ve never done anything with connecting things to players, like showing who’s hotbox each is

[craggy niche]

ray casting moves with ur fist

[jolly vessel]

You don't know what a weld is?

[craggy niche]

so it’s better than a normal hitbox

[craggy niche]

nah i don’t make the hitboxes for my game

[jolly vessel]

There's a game I know that uses raycasts for swords it's amazing

[plush lichen]

brother you keep saying you don't know, no shit.

you asked for something to learn and you keep saying IDK HOW TO DO THAT

[spare reef]

Could u not just use the actual fist of a player whatever it’s called

[craggy niche]

go make a combat system

[jolly vessel]

A hotbox is just a fkin cube why hire someone for it

[plush lichen]

jsut go

[spare reef]

Ok

[craggy niche]

a simple one

[plush lichen]

and stop saying idk how to do it

go look up tutorials go fuck up and go learen

[spare reef]

Ok

Ok

Dang

[craggy niche]

i didn’t hire someone, there are 2 scripters that owner made and i’m one of them dummy

other guy deals with hitboxes cuz he wants to

so i let him do that

[jolly vessel]

I feel bad for the owner

Hiring 2 idiots

[craggy niche]

lmao whatever u say

[plush lichen]

what are the advantages of using it over normal hitbox though

[craggy niche]

no need to be insulting, i didn’t insult u so why u insult me

[jolly vessel]

These are the people they hire for comms instead of me 💔

[craggy niche]

cry abt it

[jolly vessel]

I don't listen to raycast enjoyers

[spare reef]

Starting on the combat system

[craggy niche]

good now be quiet

[jolly vessel]

I have it written somewhere idk

[jolly vessel]

Do you not understand english

Grammar bud

[abstract dagger]

yea i've seen raycast melee before

[craggy niche]

?

[abstract dagger]

if u want like, pinpoint accuracy

[craggy niche]

my grammar is fine lil bro

[jolly vessel]

Sure

[abstract dagger]

come on guys lets all be friends

[plush lichen]

like actual irl combat where you have to parry at a certain direction?

[abstract dagger]

yea something like that, or you want your hitbox to be exactly at the blade of your sword

they both suck anyway

unless u have a really creative direction for it

[mint cloud]

No

[abstract dagger]

sorry

[jolly vessel]

Anger

Grrr

[abstract dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-dog-backflip-backflip-dog-back-flip-gif-12747951012339527853

[rancid bay]

bro they r prob being enslaved to do some crazy stuff for 15% of the games revenue, the games never gonna release, the owners a drone, and he aint gonna make money lmao

[jolly vessel]

If he accepts that shit good luck for him

[white aurora]

did i just hear someone

mew?!

(cringe)

[craggy niche]

i’m being paid a total of 100 bucks, along with 25% (4 devs), the owner is a nice guy, the game is going well so will probably release, and yes i am making money, so cope.

also, @rancid bay ur bio is very very very cringe

[rancid bay]

ts was from 2020 😭

[craggy niche]

in regards to the message u sent abt me, breaking others down won’t build u up

breaking enemies builds doesn’t give u materials

• fortnite quite

quote

[rancid bay]

ts not fortnite

[bleak glade]

you can use touched but raycasts are better because you dont have to rely on physics simulation

[craggy niche]

in short, making fun of others won’t help u cope

[bleak glade]

touched has slight delay too

[rancid bay]

i never called u out

[craggy niche]

u did

[craggy niche]

here

[rancid bay]

they*

[craggy niche]

yes, replying to the message of the guy complaining about me getting chosen over him

[rancid bay]

he didnt call you out either

[craggy niche]

he was speaking to me and crying about me

if u read the messages u see

[rancid bay]

love how your calling someone out here also 😭

[craggy niche]

i’m not, i’m giving him advice, u clearly aren’t very smart so im going to leave it at that as i don’t want to argue with you

[toxic forge]

I’m scripting a cutscene ability, if I have a animation for the part which is gonna be my camera, can I insert a animator instance in my script and make the part play the animation instead of tweening it?

[rancid bay]

"u never learn new things"

time to stop arguing with drones 😭

[torn bay]

Hello!

[craggy niche]

yes, if he says it’s all too hard he won’t learn

[rancid bay]

please syabu drone headead ahh 🙏

ikigwu ts pmo

u lwky a kevin

[craggy niche]

ok probro513

[stoic cypress]

just hopped in roblox studio, tried to make a rng system, and confused myself 💯

[lofty plinth]

Use weights 💪

[stoic cypress]

what r those

[plush lichen]

numbers

weighted random just look it up

[stoic cypress]

i see

[craggy niche]

look up weight table

[wispy sierra]

I'm confused by rng systems that don't seem to add up to 100%

[lofty plinth]

It adds all the numbers together and treats that as 100%

E.g 67/total rather than 67/100

[cosmic lava]

How to code choose class

[past pendant]

Anybody know if this autoban script would work? ```local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local BanDS = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("AutoBanStore")
local PointsDS = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("DataStore(Fixed)")
local rs = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local BAN_DURATION_SECONDS = 60 * 24 * 60 * 60
local EXPLOIT_THRESHOLD = 100000000
local WARNING_THRESHOLD = 98000000

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local userId = player.UserId
local now = os.time()

-- Check if the user is already banned
local success, banTimestamp = pcall(function()
    return BanDS:GetAsync("Ban_" .. userId)
end)

if success and banTimestamp and now < banTimestamp then
    local remaining = banTimestamp - now
    player:Kick("You have been banned for exploiting. Time left: " .. math.floor(remaining / 3600) .. " hours.")
    return
end

player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
player:WaitForChild("leaderstats", 5)
local stats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
local pointsStat = stats and stats:FindFirstChild("Points")

if pointsStat then
    local points = pointsStat.Value

    
    if points >= WARNING_THRESHOLD and points < EXPLOIT_THRESHOLD then
        local adminRemotes = rs:FindFirstChild("AdminRemotes")
        local clientSound = rs:FindFirstChild("ClientSoundPlayer")

        if adminRemotes and clientSound then
            local utility = adminRemotes:FindFirstChild("Utility")
            local announce = utility and utility:FindFirstChild("Announcement")

            if announce then
                announce:FireClient(player, "Suspicious Activity Detected", "error")
            end

            clientSound:FireClient(player, "Error_Sound")
        end
    end

    
    if points >= EXPLOIT_THRESHOLD then
        local banUntil = now + BAN_DURATION_SECONDS

        pcall(function()
            BanDS:SetAsync("Ban_" .. userId, banUntil)
        end)

        player:Kick("You have been banned for 30 days due to suspicious activity.")
    end
end

end)```

[civic garnet]

try it and see

[civic garnet]

This anti cheat is so shit

[minor meteor]

blr uses gradients i think

[cosmic lava]

Fire system look good?

[abstract dagger]

very cool

[uneven jolt]

Alright, I'm working on a fighting game system and currently trying to figure out the best way to replicate VFX, currently my VFX is stored in a module script client side. when they attack it plays it client side, then sends a remote event out to the server, then to all other clients to require that script and play the same animation. Currently this is EXTREMELY delayed with the animation

Should I just load every module script from the start?

[vagrant adder]

is there like a line limit that you'd say would make the game laggy or something

because i'm making a game from completely gpt and idk if it grants the most performance-friendly results

[zenith holly]

local function ChangeTime(day:number, night:number)
    print("TimeChanged")
    if lighting.ClockTime == day then
        lighting.ClockTime = night
    else
        lighting.ClockTime = day
    end
end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    print("ImageButton clicked!")
    ChangeTime(12.313,0)
end)
``` not changing time when clicked

[odd copper]

💀

[vagrant adder]

bro trust me its good

[odd copper]

Idc bro

[vagrant adder]

do you wanna test it

🤑

[odd copper]

Hell nah

[vagrant adder]

i cant code for shit man

i gotta use gpt

[odd copper]

Your kind of people is the reason why ChatGPT is bad

[vagrant adder]

why bro😭

[odd copper]

Making stupids look like they can do stuff

Learn

[serene terrace]

just understand what it's doing and you'll be good then start making stuff without it

[manic rover]

I learned a lot

It’s my 3rd day of learning coding

I’m a professional video editor but is hard to find clients

[odd copper]

With ChatGPT?

[manic rover]

No

[odd copper]

There you go

[manic rover]

With a tutorial on YouTube, he has I think 13-15 episodes

[manic rover]

I’m on his 8th episodes but it’s mostly done, it was about dictionaries

[odd copper]

Ok im talking about someone using ChatGPT to not learn but do a game

[manic rover]

ChatGPT sucks

It can’t fix indent errors

[odd copper]

Indeed

[manic rover]

It is not gonna replace human in coding

[odd copper]

@vagrant adder ^^

[manic rover]

I mean u can use the Roblox built in ai for some lines of code to help

[vagrant adder]

i know modeling/ui design and concept art also everything that has a creative process, also i know the lua syntax but i need a fast prototype and i dont wanna bother learning scripting as well

[manic rover]

But not that much

[wispy sierra]

it will get technical stuff down eventually but it cant replace humans because it's not creative as it can only copy available work

[vagrant adder]

i use it as a partner, he's the programmer im the designer

[manic rover]

Ok but you gonna have to proof read ChatGPT’s code

[manic rover]

Yea

[vagrant adder]

okay snakemusic

[manic rover]

Interesting

[vagrant adder]

it is interesting

[odd copper]

« Partner »

Makes me laugh

[wispy sierra]

yeah you really need to know how to code to use chatgpt for anything important, it is rarely every right the first time

[manic rover]

Your gonna have to proofread ChatGPT’s code btw

[vagrant adder]

wdym proofread

[manic rover]

I asked it to fix the indent errors 12 times and it still didint fix

[wispy sierra]

make sure it works

[manic rover]

Read if there’s errors

[vagrant adder]

i made a whole game with it i can give prompts bro

[manic rover]

Yes but still proofread it

[wispy sierra]

not just that, for anything important chatgpt can make serious oversights you will not see

[manic rover]

It couldn’t solve an indent error for me

[odd copper]

You won’t ever be able to update it

Fix bugs

Nothing

[manic rover]

I’m gonna go on episode 9 now

Of coding

[odd copper]

Cya

[manic rover]

Cya

[vagrant adder]

idk it definetely isn't as good as a human programmer, but i want to create games and focus on the design aspect so i dont see a problem in using it

[manic rover]

I see what you mean but your gonna have to make sure it’s correct if you want to do that

[vagrant adder]

yeah im testing bugs as i go along, a lot

[odd copper]

What is it about

[wispy sierra]

For example once it made me a datastore script and it defaulted to WIPING DATA TO DEFAULTS if datastore fetching failed @vagrant adder I would hire a real scripter to double check anything important, it will be way cheaper to hire a scripter to optimize scripts that are already made than to write them from scratch

[manic rover]

Idk yet but episode 8 was dictionaries

[vagrant adder]

it's a small solo project really, but if it ever gets attention i will do that

[odd copper]

Which channel is it

[vagrant adder]

i know it can fuck up some things real bad sometimes

[manic rover]

Hiatus Roblox

[wispy sierra]

Anything to do with player data or progress, or anything else that would be devastating if it failed, get a human to double check.

[manic rover]

It’s hiatus but add Roblox in the search

[patent sonnet]

how would i make a submarine

i want to make the water seem realistic

[odd copper]

Yeah found it

[patent sonnet]

is it even possible? i want the inside to seem dry, but outside to be water

[manic rover]

It’s In The playlist

[patent sonnet]

but with the submarine moving by player control, not sure if its possible

[manic rover]

The series is in the playlist

[odd copper]

Yeah found it too

[manic rover]

Nice

[odd copper]

I think I know everything in there tho

Lol

Thanks still

[wispy sierra]

Probably no good way with roblox water, this would be very challenging and you would need your own water system most likely

[patent sonnet]

thats what i was thinking

not sure how to like simulate waves and stuff, especially at the scale that im thinking

[vagrant adder]

adhd gpt

[wispy sierra]

Here's a creative solution:

1. Add a surface to the water so it looks good from land/above water, but do not have any physical water below the surface.

2. Add camera effects / sound muffling when the player camera is in the region under the water to give the illusion of water. This would also require you to make the player able to swim in this region with your own code if needed.

3. just remove the camera/sound muffling effects when the player's cam is in the submarine - and also the swimming

[patent sonnet]

yeah this will work

alright thanks

[wispy sierra]

This would basically just let you control it with regions instead of roblox water

[patent sonnet]

do you think it would cause performance issues tho? or does it depend on the type of system we develop

[wispy sierra]

Honestly no idea, I wouldn't even know how to script that it's just an idea lol

I don't think regions usually cause performance issues but if you're contantly updating the submarine region it could potentially be an issue

[odd copper]

What game are you making

[vagrant adder]

sandbox tycoon

like a city builder

[odd copper]

Like

You can put some small buildings and towers and stuff

?

[vagrant adder]

ill send an ss

there isnt much buildings or anything rn because i am mostly focusing on core features

its only been 4 days since i started

[odd copper]

Kk

[vagrant adder]

looks smth like this rn

pretty barebones

houses earn more money per minute ill add a lot of other things in the near future

[odd copper]

Ah kk

[vagrant adder]

like idk man genuinely, yes a scripter would definetely be better at doing this and more efficient but i cant really afford to learn scripting right now and i think its a viable solution

also not gonna lie i do learn some things from it

[warped idol]

What would be a cool system i can make that'll improve my portfolio?

[granite forge]

Cash grab game

[vagrant adder]

🤑

[warped idol]

Maybe something that'll actually be cool?

[hallow linden]

Step 1: Analyze what types of games are popular nowadays
Step 2: See what systems they require, basic parts.
Step 3: Code multiple independent systems that implement those basic parts, then slap them together in a tech demo game

Secret step 4: If you find something you have an interest in coding up from scracth, do that too

[thorny moat]

In #scripter-hiring, if the commission is: R$5,000 ($17.50), do they pay for the 30% tax when transferring Robux?

[civic garnet]

just ask them

[warped idol]

Perfect thank you

[dusty pine]

what should i make to practice my skills as a scripter i am an intermediate i would say

[woeful sorrel]

Thoughts on my project? https://youtu.be/aK0fvbqN_-M?si=CFkpPMaV5peTORyo

How could I improve this?

[odd copper]

Looks good

I like the dragging system

No clue how to make that lol

[latent meadow]

who could script ui andboxing animations ?

[sudden estuary]

scripter

[woeful sorrel]

Yes

[odd copper]

Do you have these UI and Animations or to make them?

[latent meadow]

i could make the UI myself

i just need it scripted

and the animations scripted

[odd copper]

kk well honestly any scripter

[quartz wraith]

how much u paying

[latent meadow]

2,500 robux

[quartz wraith]

not interested

[odd copper]

Look DMs.

[woeful sorrel]

Hes asking to pay after he receives. Seems sus

[glacial juniper]

guys would it be theoretically possible to code a wobbly physics system similar to whats seen in totally accurate battle ground

[tired depot]

anyone wanna script in a blue lock game?

[hot wraith]

aah cinematic

[lucid fox]

do any scripters wanna make a game im a builder and 3d modeler

[granite forge]

What's the main type of cash grab game rn

[hollow plover]

[hot wraith]

Big Brother Of Tesseract.

[gilded gyro]

i wanted to try something to replicate this camera from ea skate fr

https://youtu.be/CkKYlLTc5C0?si=dAHTVqXfRFoYBRai

just for my skated, this is Far Mode Camera anyway

[sudden snow]

Awesome!

[sudden snow]

I like it!

Im working on a checkpoint system.

I just took an OOP class at achool and its so awesome to finally be able to use module scripts to make my own classes and methods.

[hot wraith]

Yeah yeah thanks u !

I build a new system, more spectacular from this one, you want to see?

[sudden snow]

Sure dude! I love dimension theory.

[hot wraith]

The new one is based on the L-System, not dimensional 😮

[gilded gyro]

what ya tryna to make?

[sudden snow]

How are you projecting the shapes?

[hot wraith]

L-System

[gilded gyro]

i though is L Ratio

but what is that ;-;?

L-System thing

@hot wraith