code-discussion

[raven sonnet]

ig il just use it for now

works how i wanted

[ancient halo]

How to play an animation backwards from the begging?
Actually I need to loop the animation. However if i just make it looped it would look choppy. Thats why I want it to play then to play back etc

[ancient halo]

I know i should usse AdjustSpeed((-1) but im not sure how exactly

[stable urchin]

call it on the animationtrack

[ancient halo]

  track:Play() ; track:AdjustSpeed(-1)
  -- i need to anim play backwards at this moment
``` wont do it

[stable urchin]

if it looks bad in any way, please make a recording of it and share

[stable urchin]

looks correct? I'd put the adjustspeed call on a new line though, and not use semi colons since they're completely unnecessary in Luau

[ancient halo]

this wont go then

cuz the animation just started playing

it will go back to 0 cuz of the reverse

and will stop

[stable urchin]

hm

even when looped?

[ancient halo]

havent tried actually

lemme see

[ancient halo]

this wont work then tho ;-;

cuz it will never stop

i tried it with a while loop

but still looks weird

[stable urchin]

when should it stop then

[stable urchin]

did you specify fadetime to be 0 when you tried with a while loop

[ancient halo]

if i set the looped property on then never

[ancient halo]

huh

[stable urchin]

when should? it stop?

[ancient halo]

never, i want to loop it

but loop it smoothly

thats why it should play backwards when stopped

[terse canyon]

I read this and thought I was seeing things

[languid bison]

I wrote this quick script to set the color of an R6 Dummy's arm to a specific color and it doesn't work. What did I do wrong? Can colors from the color wheel not be applied to arms?

[fading bramble]

I wanna be a hirable scripter but I feel like I'm still too bad for it, what are some projects I can do to improve? I dont wanna create a whole games by myself cuz building it and making ui, animations etc is just not for me

[hallow crag]

use Color3.fromRGB

[uncut bear]

cant find the problem, can someone help?

[dark juniper]

Ur laser sword don’t exist

[uncut bear]

it does, i have it as a tool

[velvet zinc]

i need help with this, how come big games with parts that go up to 100k+ parts and they dont crash or lag, while my car game has 209,949 parts (basically because of the map and cars i have in game) just immediently crashes in 15 minutes.

done that

already

[keen frigate]

how do i take down my hiring posts?

wrong channel

[pulsar apex]

u can only adjust the speed while the animation is playing, so detect when its playing and adjust the speed

[stable urchin]

doesn't fix the problem

[weak radish]

I mean you could have it only render within a radius

[weak radish]

Are you sure? Send the new script

What happened to the singular line 😭

Use for loops bro

[stable urchin]

?

[neon plover]

chat has AI crashed out?

[stable urchin]

oh my bad

you're another dude lmao

the code I posted isn't relevant for what you had in mind

[stable urchin]

FYI I didn't write that

I just edited it and commented out UI code since I didn't have the UI locally

[weak radish]

I mean it's not innefficient code its just using more lines than you need for something like that

[weak radish]

What happened with the colour one then

why were you using oncharacteradded in a local script

if gameProcessed then return end

if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.C then 

is so dumb

just use and statements

oh fairs you had two if statements

but for drainEnergy just start the function with if not isRunning return end

[elder anchor]

guys who wants to collaborate? i am making a game i need scripters . For who wants ….write me in private!

[fair onyx]

any scripters that wanna be hired?

[stable urchin]

yeah

[stable urchin]

I reckon they wanted to maintain UI references

I'd also personally use contextactionservice

but those aren't the problem in this case

[weak radish]

Oncharacter added is everytime the script is run

[stable urchin]

?

it's a local player script, not character script

[weak radish]

Does it say it's player?

[stable urchin]

no but that's implied

otherwise it's indeed pointless

[weak radish]

They had an if statement saying if player.character then
oncharacteradded()

I'm not saying that means it's player

But I'm saying I wouldn't assume it's not character

[stable urchin]

to give them credit it's indeed the method you should use if using number range 0-255 though that's not cause of the error. I also briefly looked into it and assigning to Color with a Color3 should work if it's just a part

[weak radish]

Yeah exactly that's why I was conffused

[stable urchin]

can you show the instance hierarchy and perhaps send the character here as .rbxm model file

[tender badge]

already did it for you

[tender badge]

wsp found out you took down the commission once I sent you the code and you never responded/payed me

[hard wolf]

how do you guys animate cutscenes from moon animator?
I found moonlite by maximumadhd works, but it doesnt play the rig animations, only the camera stuff
what do you do about rigs in a cutscene

[languid bison]

Nah it was BodyColors taking over I'm dumb

[cerulean void]

ayo

[stable urchin]

nice

[unkempt bay]

yall i need help 😭 , i made an animation with moon animator and it has rig animation and camera so it transformed into moon 2 file , how do i script the animation of the rig and the camera to work when a player clicks on a gui screen ?

[stable verge]

just put the rig character you want in starter player and name it "StarterCharacter"

[full ruin]

Im new to lua i know c#,python, js and html and i want some help in lerning can someone help me te learn?

[gloomy kiln]

I'm starting to learn coding but I have a question

What's the difference between

for loops and

while loops

[full ruin]

for is when you know how much time you want to do the thing and while is when you dont know the spesific times it going to take it antil something happend

is this explain?

[lunar charm]

for loops execute a certain amout of time, and a while loop runs until a condition is met

[compact shell]

if you change a value with a local scripts, can other local scripts from the same player see the changed value?

[lunar charm]

for = 1,5 do
  print("Output: "..i)
end

--[[ Outputs
Output: 1
Output: 2
Output: 3
Output: 4
Output: 5
]]

local condition = false

local count = 0

while condition ~= true do
    if count ~= 5 then
      count += 1
      print("Output: "..count)
    else
        condition = true
    end
end
--[[ Outputs
Output: 1
Output: 2
Output: 3
Output: 4
]]

[gloomy kiln]

ooh thanks

[open sparrow]

guys give me some complex tasks i can ask the premium AI to do, i wanna know how smart he is

[lunar charm]

explain why anything indexed by 0 is 1

[open sparrow]

Whenever you see a “zero‐indexed” value equal to 1—like
0
!
0!,
𝑥
0
x
0
, or
(
𝑛
0
)
(
0
n
​
)—it’s because each definition is really a product over zero factors. By convention, the product of nothing (the “empty product”) is set to the multiplicative identity, 1. This keeps factorials, exponent rules, and combinatorial formulas consistent without special cases.

[shy harness]

wtf

[copper apex]

Makes sense

[open sparrow]

i want smth harder

i really want to test it

how smart could it be

[copper apex]

Prove the Riemann Hypothesis

[open sparrow]

The short answer is that no proof of the Riemann Hypothesis is known: it remains one of the great open problems in mathematics.

[copper apex]

How to get more qubits

[open sparrow]

To access or build systems with more qubits, you typically need to:

Choose a high-qubit platform (e.g., IBM’s Condor at 1,121 qubits, Atom Computing’s neutral-atom chip at ~1,180 qubits, or D-Wave’s Advantage2 at >1,200 qubits).

Use cloud services (IBM Quantum, IonQ, Rigetti, etc.) which let you run on their largest processors without owning hardware.

Improve hardware design (advanced fabrication, 3D interconnects, error suppression) to scale physical qubit counts and reduce noise—while also implementing error correction to turn many physical qubits into fewer logical qubits.

[daring lance]

yo who tryna work for me

[open sparrow]

how well he did?

[red kestrel]

Hey, I'm looking for someone to make a game with — preferably a scripter, since I mostly do modeling and animation.
It’s more of a collab than a job or anything, but I really want to learn more about scripting too. I'm just looking for someone who's actually into making a game and down to learn along the way.
You gotta be trustworthy, reliable, and just… normal. I’m not trying to partner up with someone who’s super childish. Thanks for reading if u are interested DM me.

[fading bramble]

I wanna become a better programmer, what is some system I could make which should teach me a lot of things and level up my skills? ( I dont want it to be too easy and I dont want it to be a whole game )

[stable urchin]

#scripter-hirable

deobfuscation module
I don't see how the two go together

[stable urchin]

autonomous turrets can get very complex

you can sink a lot of time into them

something I worked on for a little while, mostly finished now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q25R_MGN8qA

nifty features like lead prediction accounting for projectile gravity and target acceleration, firing in bursts for accuracy, working with any orientation of turret

[stable urchin]

you could also make a car system. You have a lot of control over how detailed you want to make your sim

[terse vector]

apply to lockheed martin, put this in your resume

[stable urchin]

my father joked about that aswell

[terse vector]

It's quite impressive, good work

[stable urchin]

thanks

it's gonna be funny seeing a friend fly a heli, then walking over to a generator, flipping its switch and watching 5 now-powered centurions and SAMs lighting up your friend's heli

[stable urchin]

you could also make a character movement system. This forces you to deal with user input, physics and making it feel good.

[fading bramble]

Ive realized that I never used module scripts in my game, can anyone give me an example when would u use it?

[stable urchin]

features like mantling, wallrunning, bars that you can grab and swing with

[fading bramble]

that is cool idea

[stable urchin]

what do you know about modulescripts?

before I start over explaining

[fading bramble]

that u can put your functions and variables inside of them and use them in other scripts

well I know how they work, I just cant think of a situation where I would need it and I know that in a lot of game people use them a lot

[open sparrow]

very basic typa grow a garden offline growing

[stable urchin]

in the case of the game me and my friend are working on, everything

[stable urchin]

the main categories of usage, for me, are configuration and grouping a body of code that has one main goal

so we have various 'services', basically gameplay elements, on the server

[fading bramble]

could u show me like one of the scripts and the normal script where u use the module one?

[stable urchin]

a bunch of controllers, basically clientside gameplay elements, on the client

and a pattern I use very often with modules is what I like to call environment-based

[open sparrow]

well very easy like when u want to make something fly and do some particles like do the same thing multiple times, insted of placing the same code in multiple scripts u can put that code in a module script and then call the module script from a server script or a local script so it makes everything easier

[stable urchin]

the issue with modulescripts is that you can't pass information to them

so I got around that by having the modulescript return an 'initialization' function which takes in the necessary data in the form of arguments

I don't want to leak a bunch of code, so here's a mostly empty one that's going to be worked on

and then cleanup is also trivial

either this environment returns a cleanup function, or the cleanup function becomes part of the Environment table to be called externally

also, logical seperation

all of the modules you see in that screenshot use the environment pattern

[fading bramble]

why not keep it in a single script?

[stable urchin]

it gets very messy very fast

especially so with the structured script pattern I use

[fading bramble]

then why module scripts and not normal scripts?

[stable urchin]

if you have 15 different loosely related functions it becomes a PITA to navigate

[stable urchin]

#code-discussion message

grouping related code

and with normal scripts you can't delegate related code

[full vortex]

anyone got any reccomendations for learning scripting? ive just been watching thedevkings tutorials and doing the scripts in RS while taking notes

[stable urchin]

here's an example. There's quite a lot of turret AI code. Keeping that around in the main Turret environment would make it very messy

[full vortex]

im a complete beginner btw

[stable urchin]

@fading bramble keep in mind TurretAI is 300+ lines of code

that's 300 lines of extra searching- and scrolling to write and maintain code

[fading bramble]

Idk I think this one is a too complicated example...

[stable urchin]

my friend's first gun system was thousands of lines long

it was nigh unworkable

ever since he started embracing modulescripts he hasn't gone back

[stable urchin]

is there anything you're working on right now

so that I can familiarize you on how to chop up code and seperate it into various modules

[fading bramble]

nope that why I was asking for the ideas for learning

[stable urchin]

hm

I suppose autonomous turrets are a candidate

[fading bramble]

but I realized that maybe ill finally learn module scripts

[stable urchin]

have you ever used them?

or do you only know them on a theoretic level

[fading bramble]

nope never in my life

[stable urchin]

ah

[fading bramble]

I only watched a tutorial on module scripts when I was learning scripting

but I never really touched them

[stable urchin]

honestly I'd first play around with them on a stupid simple level

[fading bramble]

so thats why I know only what do they do but I cant imagine them in use

[stable urchin]

@fading bramble make me a modulescript that returns a function that takes in two arguments and sums them up

so that I can use it as follows

local SumNumbers = require(script.SumNumbers)

local NumberA = 2
local NumberB = 3
local Result = SumNumbers(NumberA, NumberB)

print(Result)

[fading bramble]

yeah I understand them on stupid simple examples

[stable urchin]

taking a guess that you should play around with them first to get a better feel for when to use them

hm okay

[fading bramble]

but this one is so not helpful

[stable urchin]

true.

[fading bramble]

cuz u could just do numberA + numberB

I came here to get some like still simple but examples where it really is helpful

[stable urchin]

one example is game configuration

in our game we have a central config module

with config submodules for specific features like settings and keybinds

that way we keep each module's size reasonable

for example SettingsConfig is 280 lines long and MapDataList is like 200

that adds up fast if you keep it all in a single (module)script

for the rest I don't have simple examples in mind, thinking

[stable urchin]

oh something popped up in my head

it's useful for custom objects/features

like simulated springs or projectile systems

spring modules are insanely useful

and they're obvious cases where you really wouldn't put their code directly in normal scripts since that goes against the Don't Repeat Yourself principle

[fading bramble]

idk I think im too dumb for it

maybe id learn on an example where I see the code and it actually is really helpful

[stable urchin]

for springs? nah

you just have to sit down and actually research

read articles, watch videos that explain the subject

read code that others have written, try to dissect and understand it

and in the meantime try to apply it

that's how you learn

[fading bramble]

yeah I think that my way of learning is seeing and understanding examples that are simple but not useless at the same time

[stable urchin]

springs are relatively simple

at least the euler sim variant

they're also used often

[fading bramble]

do u maybe have a yt videos on it?

[stable urchin]

nothing good after a very cursory search. Came across this though.

searched for

roblox what are code springs tutorial

got this as result https://devforum.roblox.com/t/coding-a-physics-based-spring/2016778

looks solid to me

there's also this article that took me many reads to digest lol https://www.ryanjuckett.com/damped-springs/

springs turn up in animation and a lot in physics like character controllers and car suspension

[fading bramble]

spring.__index = spring

function spring.new(target: any)
    local self = {}
    
    self.Target = target
    self.Position = target
    self.Velocity = 0
    
    self.Tension = .025
    self.Dampening = .3
    
    return setmetatable(self, spring)
end

function spring:Update()
end

function spring:Impulse(num: number)
end

return spring``` why are they doing like .new :Update etc?

is it required or what?

[stable urchin]

this module tries to mimic OOP

the idea is that you have a spring module with which you can create individual spring objects

[fading bramble]

yeah I know what OOP is

[stable urchin]

:Update() is to step the spring simulation

[fading bramble]

I know python and a bit of java

but is it like required or what

[stable urchin]

yes

[fading bramble]

cuz I dont get why they wont just name it update or impulse

[stable urchin]

if there is no update mechanism

then the spring doesn't do shit

[fading bramble]

but I mean the name

[stable urchin]

if you take the simulation out of a spring simulation then there's nothing

[stable urchin]

you mean why it's uppercase?

[fading bramble]

why do they name it spring:Update() and not just update

[stable urchin]

personal preference

[fading bramble]

so u could do just: function update

right?

[stable urchin]

they likely wanted to contrast the constructor method by making it lowercase

[stable urchin]

function spring:update() yes

[fading bramble]

no i dont mean is it uppercase or lower case

why they add spring: and brackets at the end

[stable urchin]

you mean why 'spring' is in the definition?

[fading bramble]

yeah

[stable urchin]

that's to make the function part of the table

and by using colon, the first argument is stripped and put in the local variable self

to try to paint a picture

[fading bramble]

why its function spring:Update() end and not function update end

[stable urchin]

the following are identical Part:Destroy() Part.Destroy(Part)

what is implied is that when you call a method via a table with colon (:), you also feed a reference of the table you accessed the method through

and by defining the method with colon, you automatically strip this first argument

writing a little demo

[fading bramble]

so to add a function to the table u have to use name. or name: ?

[stable urchin]

updated:

as you can see, we called MyFunction via MyTable using colon notation

so MyTable is automatically inserted as first argument

by defining the method with colon, we get the following

it becomes apparent that the first argument is automatically stripped

however, it's not gone; it's been put in the local variable self

[fading bramble]

oh so when u use . that means that the function will run itself?

[stable urchin]

and if we call with dot notation:

we get the following wacky result

as the definition with colon doesn't care what the actual first argument is

it just strips the first argument and puts it in self

[stable urchin]

not at all

no recursion involved

no matter the access method used, the function is executed

[fading bramble]

then why it was 2 hello and not 1 hello if the function was executed once

[stable urchin]

because as I explained earlier if you call the function through the table using colon notation, the table through which you call said function will be inserted as first argument

I recommend you play around with the code

local MyTable = {}
function MyTable:MyFunction(...)
    print("Reference to self:", self)
    for i, Argument in {...} do
        print(i, Argument)
    end
end

MyTable.MyFunction("Hello!")

that's how things become clear for me most of the time, anyway

[fading bramble]

it prints nothing

[terse vector]

Also, to create new objects using ^ system, I like to create an empty table and then set the meta table

[stable urchin]

what code

the snippet I just sent?

[fading bramble]

the one u sent npw

yeah

[stable urchin]

it definitly ran for me. Show the output

[terse vector]

Item.new = function(self) 
  local new = {}
  setmetatable(new, self)

  return new
end

[stable urchin]

how and where are you running the script

[fading bramble]

oh so u also used a script to call it?

[stable urchin]

because that error is completely unrelated to my code

[fading bramble]

yeah ik

[stable urchin]

what

did you put it in a module

[fading bramble]

yeah

[stable urchin]

I didn't tell you to

it's just a little snippet to explain this auto insertion magic

[fading bramble]

but why it doesnt work

[stable urchin]

put it in a regular script

[fading bramble]

oh ok

[stable urchin]

anyway circling back

modules are very good for organizing code

you just have to see it in action to believe

[true forge]

Hey guys, I want to share this piece of mine, to get some feedback, maybe I can improve some area, the idea was simple, made a command recognition system, the length of the commands should be 5 letters no more, not less. I am just starting so this was a little project

[stable urchin]

that's a tall order

programming is a time sink

[nocturne barn]

why isnt my code working

chatgpt isnt working

[stable urchin]

gyat ge pe te does a better job

[tame dragon]

how to code

[sturdy fiber]

So how can i make color blocks in the air fall but the color the gui picks randomly stays up kinda like color switch.

[austere solstice]

yall what am i doing wrong, it looks like whoever gets ragdolled has a seizure and they can still move and stuff whcih they shoudnt: local Ragdoll = {}

function Ragdoll.RagdollCharacter(character, duration)
if not character or not character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then return end

local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Physics) -- Enable ragdoll physics

-- Disable Motor6Ds to allow free limb movement
for _, joint in ipairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
    if joint:IsA("Motor6D") then
        local attachment1 = Instance.new("Attachment")
        attachment1.Parent = joint.Part1

        local attachment2 = Instance.new("Attachment")
        attachment2.Parent = joint.Part0

        local ballSocket = Instance.new("BallSocketConstraint")
        ballSocket.Attachment0 = attachment1
        ballSocket.Attachment1 = attachment2
        ballSocket.Parent = joint.Part1

        joint.Enabled = false
    end
end

-- **Automatically unragdoll after the provided duration**
if duration then
    task.delay(duration, function()
        Ragdoll.UnRagdollCharacter(character)
    end)
end

end

function Ragdoll.UnRagdollCharacter(character)
if not character or not character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then return end

local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.GettingUp) -- Revert back to normal movement

-- Re-enable Motor6D joints
for _, joint in ipairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
    if joint:IsA("Motor6D") then
        joint.Enabled = true
    end
end

-- Remove BallSocketConstraints
for _, constraint in ipairs(character:GetDescendants()) do
    if constraint:IsA("BallSocketConstraint") then
        constraint:Destroy()
    end
end

end

return Ragdoll

[somber vault]

I'm tryna loop through some image labels and connect a click event to them, but nothing came from the output when i put a print statement in the event. Any clue on why?

`for _, miniSlot in ipairs(scrolling_Frame:GetDescendants()) do

if miniSlot:IsA("ImageButton") then
    
    local weapon = gears:FindFirstChild(miniSlot.Name, true)

    local function on_Click()

        tool_tip.Text = miniSlot.Name
        gear_Name.Text = miniSlot.Name
        gear_Icon.Image = miniSlot.Image
        typeName.Text = weapon:GetAttribute("Type")
        tool_tip.Visible = true
        gear_Name.Visible = true
        
    end
    miniSlot.MouseButton1Click:Connect(on_Click)
    
end

end`

[bleak delta]

can someone tell me what i did wrong?

[unkempt rain]

then

[bleak delta]

error still comes up

[unkempt rain]

is the ClickAttackDebounces[Player] a function? because if it is, you need to put () at the end

[icy dew]

Remove line 44

[bleak delta]

fixed

anyone can help?

[somber vault]

are you supposed to capitalize C for clone

[tidal steppe]

how do i detect if a player is in roblox studio when they join like is it a thing

[icy dew]

RunService:IsStudio()

[tidal steppe]

thanks

[icy dew]

Np

[sage vortex]

Dms

[heady spire]

hi im a beginner to scripting and looking to learn more in the upcoming months, i looked at some of the stuff in the news channel about new studio things like that input system and the ui style thing, are they really efficient and worth finding resources to learn or is it fine to learn like the 'old' way for input from videos/books already out n stuff

[tidal steppe]

i learned basics from videos then i used studio documentation

to learn

[heady spire]

yea that's what i been doing but im mainly asking about like is the new studio stuff really like pivotal

[astral mauve]

Wanting to learn lua as summer vacation from school started any recommendations where I should learn from?

[heady spire]

like that input system thing i saw in the news channel looks like it would be useful but i jus wanna know if it really is

[bleak delta]

can someone help with the clone error

[icy dew]

The updates are useful but I wouldn’t call them pivotal. They don’t really change much, if anything, about the scripting learning process

[tidal steppe]

capital Parent

luau is case sensitive

parent doesnt work but Parent does

[icy dew]

And even if you learn the “old” ways you’ll understand why the new ways are better and they’ll be super easy to learn

[heady spire]

i see thanks a lot for the help appreciate it

[icy dew]

No problem

[tidal steppe]

alright i havent done stuff like this before what didi do wrong

waitforchild on what

[icy dew]

When you send a remote event the server doesnt automatically return something. You would have to do a :FireClient back in order to get the data

[tidal steppe]

do i fireclient true?

[spice sedge]

firing a remote doesn't return anything, are you sure you want to use RemotEvents and not RemoteFunctions?

[tidal steppe]

whats the difference between them should i use the function

[spice sedge]

RemoteFunction can return something, string, number,... check the documentation

[tidal steppe]

ok ill use that

[spice sedge]

here's a better explanation by the way

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

basically remote events: oneway, remote functions: twoway (one sends request and waits for reply)

[bleak delta]

did not work

[tidal steppe]

show the script also dont you need an index for the loop

[naive stirrup]

im a Fivem script developer but wanting to get into roblox script development, where should I start to know wtf im doing? I have experience with LUA in fivem, just not roblox

[spice sedge]

start with the documentation

[naive stirrup]

like for example if i wanna make some particle effects appear on the player when they spawn in etc.

good to hear

[spice sedge]

you need to create an ParticleEffect instance and connect it to an event of player spawning

[naive stirrup]

event of player spawning
for things like this, where can i find what the event is?

api doc?

[spice sedge]

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

[naive stirrup]

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    print(player.Name .. " joined the game!")
end)

[spice sedge]

that's for player joining, you want to use the character event instead

[naive stirrup]

Is there any place that i can do practice work on? like asks me what to do but also provides answer

kinda code academy

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onCharacterAdded(character)
    print(character.Name .. " has spawned")
end

local function onCharacterRemoving(character)
    print(character.Name .. " is despawning")
end

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(onCharacterAdded)
    player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(onCharacterRemoving)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

got you

[tidal steppe]

ok that is really messy heres the fix

line 4: for i, v in ipairs(script.PlayerValues:GetChildren() do

replace line 5 with whatever you were doing i have no idea 😭

other than that its fine

[bleak delta]

thats what i have

[barren lagoon]

What is the difference between global and local functions

[placid ember]

Wanting to learn LuaU but I have no clue what’s the best way to grow. I know I need to practice, however, are there any ways you guys would recommend going about it?

[bleak delta]

dont work

[mellow notch]

How do i apply to become a hirable scripter

[placid ember]

HD website

[mellow notch]

Where do i find that

[carmine zealot]

@everyone Looking to hire one builder for new project I'm making DM if interested. Will be wage spilt.

[placid ember]

https://hiddendevs.com

[mellow notch]

PlayerValues is a number not an instance so its erroring because you cant clone a value

[placid ember]

stfu😭

[mellow notch]

Idk what youre trying to accomplish

[copper apex]

If you know the basics, so data types, syntax, for loops, conditional statements, tables ( arrays and dictionaries ), etc, then this is the part where you just practice making things

What i did was recreate the small systems of a big game

So maybe a game I liked had a cool door clearance system, maybe the door had an animation that I liked, then I would just recreate that

[bleak delta]

so how do i fix it

[placid ember]

smart, thank you man

[placid ember]

Just look at YouTube/DevForum for the basics?

[copper apex]

Yes

[placid ember]

Thank you.

[bleak delta]

can someone help me fix these

[mellow notch]

What does the playervalues folder or whatever it is look like in your explorer

[mellow notch]

Open the values folder too

[placid ember]

Is it worth getting a course?

@little wind bro what was that structure 😭

[little wind]

@bleak delta ```lua
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
-- Assuming you have a folder named "PlayerValues" under this script
local valuesFolder = script:FindFirstChild("PlayerValues")
if valuesFolder then
for _, value in pairs(valuesFolder:GetChildren()) do
local clone = value:Clone()
clone.Parent = player
end
else
warn("PlayerValues folder not found in script.")
end
end)

[little wind]

Dont worry abt that lol

[placid ember]

Wanting to learn LuaU but I have no clue what’s the best way to grow. I know I need to practice, however, are there any ways you guys would recommend going about it? Are courses worth purchasing?

[little wind]

Wanted to copy text from picture but that function needs some work

[barren lagoon]

What is the difference between global and local functions

[bleak delta]

it worked tysm

[little wind]

Np

[bleak delta]

can anyone help?

[little wind]

How many you got lol

[bleak delta]

thats my last one till i start following the vid again

[little wind]

What is event

Show me the line that starts like this local Events =

[bleak delta]

^^^

[little wind]

This is a diffrent script

[bleak delta]

oh

[bleak delta]

what thing is it?

[little wind]

...

[bleak delta]

uhh

they not scripts right

[little wind]

You wrote Events.ClickAttack but Clickattack is a script do Events.clickattack

[wind wharf]

global functions can be used outside of where the script is defined - basically local is easier and better for avoiding unintended bugs thats how i see it

[bleak delta]

where do i put it

[little wind]

Pay attention to lower and uppercase

[little wind]

Here

[bleak delta]

wdym there

[little wind]

You wrote ClickAttack with uppercase C thats what you named you local script and you cant fire a localscript

See

[bleak delta]

clean console😁ty

[little wind]

Np

[bleak delta]

wait do yk how to fix why my animations not working?

[little wind]

Maybe maybe not i dont do animations

[bleak delta]

all i put was scripts for my animation so idk

[summer scarab]

Capitalize the S in FireServer

[spark willow]

do you guys know of any way to add your own function/method descriptions like the ones that pop up when you try to use one built into roblox?

on vs code

nevermind

found out luau language server supports documentation comments I can just use their formatting to do it

[idle rain]

we can't use clickdectors inside of character? its not letting my click a object with clickdector parented to my character

[bleak delta]

i fixed it alr

[summer scarab]

Try putting the ClickDetector in the root part

I think it only works in parts

[idle rain]

i have it in a meshpart

[placid ember]

is this peak?!

print(addition)

if addition == 50 then do
        print("Holy shit, 25+25 = 50")
    end
end```

https://tenor.com/view/rich-off-airpods-richoffairpods-stack-band-bandforband-gif-4351078540525453133

[barren lagoon]

What is the difference between global and local functions

And make it simple please

[wind wharf]

global functions can be used outside of where the script is defined - basically local is easier and better for avoiding unintended bugs thats how i see it

Local functions can only be used in that script as per my understanding

[frail yarrow]

You manage to be wrong

global functions are globals,
local functions are locals

same rules apply

[crisp steppe]

who here knows OOP looking for comm work dm me

[idle rain]

mouse.Target ignores player's character and its decendants by default?

[proven depot]

guys for applying scripter role is it possible to add like few scripts in the pastebin ?

[bleak delta]

can anyone help me play my animations im using script tho and its not working

[cobalt crane]

script ?

[lean ocean]

do end

[weak radish]

Capitalize the 2

[lean ocean]

im dead

[distant tiger]

absolute peak

[median tiger]

No

Global functions can only be used in the script it’s defined at

Ohhh it’s G

Nvm

_G shouldn’t be used anyways

[native sail]

@median tigerdms?

[pure furnace]

WTD BRO

trach me

[glacial juniper]

how much would it be to hire someone to optimize code for a game?

[somber vault]

https://www.roblox.com/games/140206023294551/Mega-Stud-Jump tell me if there are any bugs in my game?

[hoary cedar]

Depends on how bad the game is running, and the workability of the codebase

[serene fjord]

Guys i need a scripter for a full game good pay is involved and its a simple week or two long project DM me or reply below if intrested.

[graceful delta]

#scripter-hiring

[crude crater]

local function castMouse()
    local mouseLocation = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
    local ray = camera:ViewportPointToRay(mouseLocation.X, mouseLocation.Y)    
    return workspace:Raycast(ray.Origin, ray.Direction * 1000)
end

or

game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer:GetMouse().Hit.Position

I was following a tutorial on grid placement and studied the function the tutorial built and found out it's just the same as getting the player's mouse as when I print both, I get the same output. Are these any different?

[hallow crag]

use GetMouse().Hit.Position for pc/console players and raycast for mobile

[crude crater]

now I understand, thanks

[fair hazel]

Anyone here wanna make a game with me

im trying to speedrun a game

[little wind]

Poor guy

[fair hazel]

as a yt video for my channel

[ocean plaza]

what's the fastest way to learn new concepts is it tutorials or dev forum or docs or..?

[crude crater]

try finishing a tutorial, understand why the tutorial did what it did, use the docs/dev forum for more clarity

thats what I do

sometimes I also use ai to explain certain things I don't understand

[ocean plaza]

yeah I know they're all good sources but if you could mention one that you find the best help with excluding AI I would appreciate that

I've tried every one of those I just don't know what is the most efficient

[crude crater]

idk any other ways to learn efficiently without using all of the sources mentioned

maybe just play with the stuff you learned

[ocean plaza]

just tell me one that helped you the most

[crude crater]

trying to copy mechanics from different games

[ocean plaza]

but like if you get stuck and don't know how to finish the mechanic, one source that helped you understand what you need to do the most, only one, so I know the best one to use

[crude crater]

docs/devforum is the best if u learn better by reading
tutorials if you're lazy to read

[fair onyx]

yo

[somber vault]

do
    function x()
        return 0
    end
    local function y()
        return 1
    end
end

print(x()) -- this print 0, because global vars do not have the concept of scope
print(y()) -- this errors, because y doesnt exist after the do end scope

[spiral jungle]

He’s talking about functions not variable scope

[somber vault]

it is still the same concept

[spiral jungle]

I’m gonna hack you with a gun

https://tenor.com/view/sudo-rm-rf-linux-bruh-chungus-poggers-gif-19024993

[somber vault]

also if you really wanna nitpick

globals are stored on the heap = slower lookup. locals are stored on stack therefore faster

only advantage globals has is lack of scope but you can have local upvalues and itll achieve about the same thing

[spiral jungle]

Whats up dog

[white nova]

how to make moving part that cant collide with anything move smoothly

[spiral jungle]

By moving it smoothly

[white nova]

;poop @spiral jungle

[lapis hazel]

Looking for animators / modeler & builder / interface maker / scripters who can take % of robux made from the game ( can discuss the % )

[median tree]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/573224472589500440/1354495010510213180/caption.gif

[lapis hazel]

lol

[hearty trellis]

So is it the line “print(TablePlayerRemoving)” that’s messing up for you?

[proven depot]

anyone know how to make a path like this

[somber vault]

Guys I am wondering if anyone could help me learn how to code a bit dm me if ur interested!

[mint cloud]

In Roblox? Pathfinding has a parameter that tells agent how much it “likes” a certain material , so you can use that to refine the path

[proven depot]

oh ok thanks!

[somber vault]

Guys how can I code a fireworks physics so it act like this where gravitiy slows it down?

[ancient urchin]

You can just make an part and give it impulse

[somber vault]

how da hell

I am not a coder I do UI I amm trying to learn

Its going not great ngl

[ancient urchin]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/BasePart#ApplyImpulse

[somber vault]

ohh

Is vector 3 the Y axis?

[ancient urchin]

Vector 3 has three coordinates x,y and z
Here y is the height

[somber vault]

Okay so it would go (x, y, z)?

[ancient urchin]

yea

[somber vault]

Okay so First I need to get the current postion of the part

How do I do that?

Do I take the pos and make it a variable?

[ancient urchin]

local part = workspace.Part
local pos = part.Position

[somber vault]

Okay

So now should I make it print(pos)?

[ancient urchin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlZk66luZYo&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

[somber vault]

I want to learn

not copy

[ancient urchin]

it teaches you

The guy in the video is explaining it very well

probably better than me

[somber vault]

Wait so if I have pos how would I make it so that it add 100 to the y? would I grabe pos and add like a string?

pos.Y += 100?

[ancient urchin]

you can't

[somber vault]

huh

How come?

[ancient urchin]

protected field of the class

[somber vault]

hm

[ancient urchin]

#tutors )

[somber vault]

ty

im poor...

[somber vault]

use tweening

[somber vault]

yeah this too work, if you want to simulate real physics

[round mist]

i think i put this in wrong channel

troll

[obtuse roost]

Anyone know a yt tutorial video for this? #staff-help message

[nova yarrow]

Vdjbrqp

[placid peak]

heya guys im a new scripter with little to no and learning with online stuff and etc, what do u recommand that i sohuld do like small projects to do for improving my scripts and etc

[upper sleet]

Does anyone know how to apply a shirt to a gun viewmodel the correct way, i am using a humanoid and putting the shirt object inside of the viewmodel. This works but the viewmodel kinda goes crazy when you have a humanoid in it, it flings me. I searched the devforum and they all said make a humanoid to people who were asking. But a humanoid doesn't work for me. I also searched youtube and found like nothing. How do you do this?

[empty wind]

join some collabs for experience but PLEASE mention that you're a new scripter or you'll be given some crazy tasks

[weak radish]

I mean if he's that new it's probs better doing personal projects

[empty wind]

it's hard to do a personal project for a new scripter i mean if they aren't primitive as hell

[weak radish]

That's the only way I got good and I'd consider myself quite experienced

[empty wind]

well it depends on the difficulty of a project

[weak radish]

I just made little projects focusing on raycasts, datastores etc

[fluid galleon]

if you part is unanchored roblox physics already does that you just need to apply a initial vel of 200mph( ?? maybe stud/sec) at start

[copper apex]

For new scripters they tend to try to create games, hence its difficult, i advice new scripters to do smaller projects

[ivory bronze]

Anyone here that is a REALLY good scripter but is bored to death rn?

[placid ember]

https://tenor.com/view/basketball-meme-gif-5051779013126861108

[lunar charm]

@

[ivory bronze]

what?

[plain marlin]

Is using a while true loop every 0.1 second for removing expired Projectiles okay? I’m trying to make it more optimised than task.delay()

[trim sierra]

u could technically use all of newtons laws of motions 💀 and forcecode it

[trim sierra]

whats up with projectiles damn

make it 3d 😈

thats where the real fun at gang

with air resistance

and is interactive to walls

[wet holly]

How can i put effects around someone while using a item ? (like, you press left clcik with an item and it shows some effects around you )

[trim sierra]

vfx

[wet holly]

what is that

[trim sierra]

google

learning is on u, telling u is on us

[weak radish]

Anyone here that goes by the name rob_z707 that thinks theyre tons of advanced scripters who work for free

[ivory bronze]

did i mention anything about hiring someone?

[weak radish]

Why do you want them

[ivory bronze]

i just wanted to start a convo

[weak radish]

About?

[ivory bronze]

idk

[weak radish]

Okay im a good scripter

so

[ivory bronze]

lol

[weak radish]

?

[trim sierra]

dumbass got caught

😂

[weak radish]

real

[ivory bronze]

caught in what dude

[trim sierra]

ofc he wanted "REALLY" good scripters

he prolly needs 5++ years of experience for a leaderboard system 😂 😂

[ivory bronze]

god every time i say something in here i get clowned

[trim sierra]

nah its probably 10+

[trim sierra]

yeah

[wind wharf]

Was I right though?

[weak radish]

I wonder why

[trim sierra]

thats code hlpe for u

[weak radish]

you literally asked for an advanced scripter and made it so obvious you want them to code something for you

[ivory bronze]

i can make that on my own

[weak radish]

then deny that was your purpose

[trim sierra]

no u cant 🔥

[ivory bronze]

i can

[trim sierra]

prove it

[weak radish]

Say it here

its not exactly surprising or hard

but I dont believe you

[ivory bronze]

say how i would make it?

[trim sierra]

make it gang

[weak radish]

yes

the script

[trim sierra]

the classic inbuilt leaderstats

do that

thing

[weak radish]

Yeah no custom ui or anything just plain

[trim sierra]

just say inbuilt

[weak radish]

Gone off to chatgpt 😭

[ivory bronze]

lua

bru

[weak radish]

Yeah but hes gonna ask chatgpt and its gonna come up with custom stuff

[trim sierra]

--here

[weak radish]

type it without then...

its not that deep

[trim sierra]

ill know

[weak radish]

Bro

[trim sierra]

damn hes taking long

[weak radish]

this guy

Chatgpt isnt even that slow

[trim sierra]

💔

roblos

[trim sierra]

light mode bro

🥀

[weak radish]

Not signed in

oh wait I am but wrong account

BRO

ROB

Game is gone

[trim sierra]

what is bro cooking

is he making ui in script 💔

[weak radish]

Real

I mean even that doesnt take this long

That would be easy

[ivory bronze]

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
  local leaderstats = instance.new("Folder")
  leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

  local Money = instance.new("IntValue")
  Money.Parent = leaderstats
  Money.Value = 0
  
end)

 ``

[trim sierra]

it would if hes adding designs

[ivory bronze]

god

i hate this

[weak radish]

Yeah but I mean for the functionality

[weak radish]

what does local do?

[ivory bronze]

bro what

[bleak glade]

defines a local variable

[weak radish]

What does local do?

[trim sierra]

u forgot too parent the leaderstats

[weak radish]

bro ;sob:

[trim sierra]

moron :/

[ivory bronze]

mb

[bleak glade]

local variables are local to the scope

[trim sierra]

yeah btw i have a question for global scopes

in a server script or smt, why cant i just do
skibidi = 5

it just gives a red line

[weak radish]

It was a question for him cus hes using chatgpt to code leaderstats

[trim sierra]

isnt htat a global scoped?

[weak radish]

And is tryna play it off that its him

[ivory bronze]

i am not using chat gpt bro

[weak radish]

WHat does local do

[ivory bronze]

creates a variable

[trim sierra]

he didnt use chatGPT

chatGPT would've parented it

he didnt

[bleak glade]

this may happen if its created without being delcared

[trim sierra]

wdym?

hello = 5

this wont work for some reason

gives error

[weak radish]

I think he tried making it look less ai and accidentally deleted the parent code

[trim sierra]

he wouldnt, hes not that smart

[bleak glade]

defined but not used

[ivory bronze]

how can i prove that i am not using ai

[trim sierra]

oh

[trim sierra]

you've proven it already dw

[bleak glade]

it shouldnt really have a red underline though to begin with

[weak radish]

BY ANSWERING WHAT "LOCAL" DOES INSTEAD OF DODGING THE QUESTION 5 TIMES 😭

[ivory bronze]

I ANSWERED

[trim sierra]

it does doe

[bleak glade]

show your script

[weak radish]

So your final answer is "local" creates a variable?

[trim sierra]

okay 1 sec

[ivory bronze]

yes

[weak radish]

bro

[ivory bronze]

idk how i can explain it

[bleak glade]

just use local unless you actually need it global

local variables are faster as theyre on the stack

[weak radish]

Man this guy keeps digging himself a bigger hole

[trim sierra]

oh what the fuck

it isnt a red line now

what the fuckkkkk

i did not know that

thats so cool

[weak radish]

"This variable is only used in the enclosing function consider using local"?

[trim sierra]

``la

local hello = 5
skibidi = 5

whats the difference @bleak glade

[bleak glade]

if it was red underlining then it was probably in another scope

like a playeradded scope

[trim sierra]

if theyre both defined in the first line of the script

theyre both global still

[weak radish]

The variable cant be used outside the function

in local

pretty much

[trim sierra]

what if its not in a function?

[bleak glade]

skibidi is in a shared environment

[weak radish]

pretty sure it doesnt do anything

Oh wait

It doesnt add it to _G I assume

Idk I dont use _G

and I probably spelt it wrong

[bleak glade]

no

[little wind]

hi guys how are you

[south roost]

is anybody able to help and tell me why does attack,knockback delay when i increase stuntime

[little wind]

Move the attack logic to happen before or during the Stunned time not after

[south roost]

ill try

[little wind]

👍

[static coral]

skibidi is a global which is unoptimized, always use local

did bro get banned 💔

[foggy fiber]

whats the best way to run/hide animations without exploits stealing it or using anim loggers

[somber vault]

HELP - local part = script.Parent

part.Touched:Connect(function()
humanoid.Health = 0
end)

FIX THAT

[fluid galleon]

here you go:

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hp)
local char = hp.Parent
local hum = char:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
if hum then
hum.Health = 0
end
end)

[nimble hinge]

is there a place for coding challenges or ways to learn how to code

[steady robin]

What is this

😭

[summer oxide]

anything specific?

[steady robin]

just skid

and you'll learn

[nimble hinge]

not really just trying to learn how to code cause its kidna hard for me to learn off coding tutorials

[nimble hinge]

skid?

[steady robin]

coyp someone else's code

and analyze it

and you'll learn

[nimble hinge]

ill try that

[summer oxide]

there is some roblox scripting school games but they are only for people who have like never coded before

[nimble hinge]

oh

[summer oxide]

u can also just hit me up and i will send you one of my codes

to analyze

[nimble hinge]

yeah could u send me some to analyze

[summer oxide]

ye for sure

what is your skill level rn?

just so i know how advanced the scripts i send should be

[nimble hinge]

id say kinda intermediate, been scripting for a couple of years on and off but never really got in to it

not to good tho

[summer oxide]

alright lemme try to find something

ima send it over dms

[nimble hinge]

alr ty

[young rock]

How can i hide a proximity prompts background (that half transparent black bg) i know a bit about custom prompts but not really used to them, could anyone help?

[fluid galleon]

Code
Language: Lua

[steady robin]

It's not good code

😭

[nimble hinge]

any other methods u recommend?

[snow veldt]

local function onTouched(hit)
    local character = hit.Parent
    local humanoid = character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")

    -- Dealing Damage
    if humanoid then
        humanoid.Health = 0
    end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)

[weak radish]

This place is so much nicer than #code-help

[snow veldt]

its rare to actually get help there from what ive seen lolol

[weak radish]

Ide want help but there's some rage baiters

[snow veldt]

here i got u twin

[weak radish]

Apart from the 10 year olds and rage baiters

[weak radish]

local part = script.Parent

part.touched:Connect(function(Hit)
while true do 
Instance.new("Part",workspace)
end
end)```

Yep, eliminating the issues

If they run the code they deserve it

[snow veldt]

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
  if hit then
    if hit.Parent then
      if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
       local character = hit.Parent 
       local health = character.Health
       task.wait(2)
       if health !< 100 then
         while task.wait(.1) do
           health -1
           if health < 1 then
             break
           end
         end)
       end
      end
    end
  end
end)```

[snow veldt]

i done it for u twin

[slate lotus]

Does anyone know how to get the pfp of someone whos not in the game

No with a script

[weak radish]

!< is a thing?

[snow veldt]

idk, it is in javascript so probably

wait ~<

[weak radish]

why would you need that tho

not more than is just less than or equal to

[foggy fiber]

has anyone used the Groove Animator

[snow veldt]

it means not lesser than, i was just trying to make it messy 🙂

soo it would loop and then break when its lesser than wtv num i put

[weak radish]

Ik but why does java script even have !<

[digital prism]

If I rename a script, does script.parent still work?

[weak radish]

Oh it doesn't, you were just wrong @snow veldt !!

[snow veldt]

so it would seem, i dont know where i got !< from

HM

OHH I MEAN ~<

woops

[snow veldt]

yeah, script is just what the code is inside of

[weak radish]

That isn't a thing either tho

[snow veldt]

like the script itself

[snow veldt]

~< is valid

[weak radish]

It is?

I just asked chatgpt cus I can't access studio rn

[snow veldt]

i mean in js

wait wth nah i just tested

idk where the hell i used ~< or !<

[weak radish]

It's invalid everywhere 😭

Because it's pointless

[snow veldt]

nahh its not though coz years ago when i was learning, idek if it was c++ or js

[weak radish]

There is literally no use of it

[snow veldt]

i was using it because it was a conenient way of doing something instead of using stuff like ! (a < b)

[weak radish]

bri

=

[snow veldt]

OHHHHHHH

WAIT NO I DID USE THE js ! ( a < b ) i thinkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

I forgot what i done

OH yeah i think i just done >=

[weak radish]

.

[crisp steppe]

who here knows OOP looking for commissioned work everything provided (3-5 days project) dm me

[oak solar]

Yo does anyone know a website where you can buy roblox system and games.

[tawny widget]

what the fuck is the not equal != in lua

I dont have the goofy ass serppent in my fucking keyboard

the world is so cruel

[summer aurora]

peak coding

[odd lantern]

☠️

[vagrant mulch]

I like the font

[idle saffron]

i was gonna say the complete opposite

[summer aurora]

thank u

[exotic minnow]

Made custom signal handler

[tawny widget]

thanks

[exotic minnow]

np homeboy

[hasty mesa]

this is an error by iterating and removing at the same time\

it would create unexpected results

and why use buffers and make it overly complicated

[buoyant zealot]

what should i try to make i do t have any ideas 🙏

[median tiger]

Genuine question ?

[wind wharf]

yea i mean like i wasn't misinformed right?

havent coded much yet im still learning the basics

[median tiger]

Nuh uh you were right

I wasn’t

[plain marlin]

It’s a magic spell

[wind wharf]

alr thx

[plain marlin]

It doesn’t have air resistance

[median tiger]

I just don’t recommend using _G because of security reasons

[wind wharf]

security?

[median tiger]

Yuh

[plain marlin]

It’s unsupported now anyways

[median tiger]

Exploiters

[plain marlin]

Just use modules right

[wind wharf]

what could they do

[plain marlin]

Or bindableEvents

[median tiger]

And module scripts are better

[plain marlin]

Yh

[median tiger]

Yup

[hasty mesa]

not security

[plain marlin]

HAOO 👋

[hasty mesa]

just organization, and you lose intellisense

[hasty mesa]

hi ghost

[median tiger]

If it’s on the client side then it’s exploitable

[hasty mesa]

so are modules

and everything else the client has access to

[median tiger]

Myea

[frail yarrow]

All client side code is vulnerable

Simple as

[royal ibex]

That’s hurts my eyes

[summer aurora]

now convert each client side script to server side 💯 🗣️

[exotic minnow]

Why would it be error It works just fine

You mean the for indec, value loop?

Roblox already has this covered

[hasty mesa]

what do you think is the output for this

[exotic minnow]

Yeah but that is vanilla lua

not luau

[hasty mesa]

thats luau

[exotic minnow]

Meh I will do for index=1 loop and increment index by the amount it removes

[hasty mesa]

but why are you overcompliating it

is this for learning purposes or actual use case

cause learning purposes makes sense

actual uses case not really

[steady robin]

What is the point

[exotic minnow]

Its not really overcomplicated at all because when you strip it to its concept buffers in that code essentially work as pointers to global array and yes, I could do this by creating arrays with index and state but when there are buffers I dont see the need to use arrays

[exotic minnow]

Just everything

[hasty mesa]

you're buffers are only size 2

[exotic minnow]

Yeah

[hasty mesa]

a vector3 would take up less size btw

so would a number

and you index them to an array either way

[steady robin]

Why would you need a signal handler?

[hasty mesa]

so at the end you're not saving any

[exotic minnow]

Yes but I need to store two numbers and tables take 40 or 20 bytes

[steady robin]

I don't see the use case

[hasty mesa]

each buffers take up 16 bytes

16 + overhead + size

a vector3 takes 16

a number takes 16

[exotic minnow]

For stuff where I would use roblox's native signals like UI events and stuff like that

[steady robin]

What does it even do?

Simply store them?

[exotic minnow]

Its in the name

[exotic minnow]

I dont believe that buffer is more expensive than vector3 with its float-point precisions and metadata

[hasty mesa]

local Signal = {}
Signal.__index = Signal
Signal.__type = "Signal"
local Connection = {}
Connection.__index = Connection


function Connection.new(Signal, Callback)
    return setmetatable({
        Signal = Signal,
        Callback = Callback
    }, Connection)
end

function Connection.Disconnect(self)
    self.Signal[self] = nil
end
 

function Signal.new()
    return setmetatable({} :: any, Signal)
end

function Signal.Connect(self, Callback)
    local CN = Connection.new(self, Callback)
    self[CN] = true
    return CN
end

function Signal.Once(self, Callback)
    local CN; CN = Connection.new(self, function(...)
        CN:Disconnect()
        Callback(...)
    end)
    self[CN] = true
    return CN
end

function Signal.Wait(self)
    local waitingCoroutine = coroutine.running()
    local cn; cn = self:Connect(function(...)
        cn:Disconnect()
        task.spawn(waitingCoroutine, ...)
    end)
    return coroutine.yield()
end

function Signal.DisconnectAll(self)
    table.clear(self)
end

function Signal.Fire(self, ...)
    if next(self) then
        for CN in self do
            CN.Callback(...)
        end
    end
end

this is an example of a very simple signal, not the best but it would probably take up less size and be more efficent

[hasty mesa]

a vector3 is a primitive type

[steady robin]

Why do you add methods doing

function Signal.Connect(self, Callback)

end

when you could just do

function Signal:Connect(Callback)

end

?

[hasty mesa]

prefrence

[steady robin]

ic

[hasty mesa]

plus you get to type check it

[steady robin]

[hasty mesa]

you still utilize an array here

so why not directly store the function in the array

[exotic minnow]

Thats not very scalable and creates table for every signal which stores its values and then you have priority system in bigger scales mine will work better

[hasty mesa]

instead of assigning a pointer

[exotic minnow]

Mainly because I dont want to shift table indexes and whole tables whenever I remove something

[hasty mesa]

you still shift the table

when you disconnect

so not sure what you're point at

or you could just use a linked list

or a hashmap

[exotic minnow]

the whole point of having global table is to reduce the amount of tables, centralize the environment and make it scalable

[hasty mesa]

i'd say you're system would be less scalable

[exotic minnow]

Its small amount of shifting and I also wanna change that

[hasty mesa]

the simple I sent above is a simple impmentation

and easy to understand

[hasty mesa]

also this is a high level language not a low lanaguage

[steady robin]

Why would you use a global table?

[hasty mesa]

all primitives data types takes up the same base size

you'rs is also limited to 255 events

[steady robin]

I don't understand where (function(...) ... end) gets called

in the Signal.Once function

because when you look at the Connection constructor

it only defines the callback

[hasty mesa]

it gets stored in the connection

[steady robin]

doesn't call it anywhere

[exotic minnow]

I made something I want to be scalable and easily debuggable and mainly centralized because Ive worked on projects and I just dont want to have bunch of tables randomly used in scripts

[hasty mesa]

which is called when Fire is called

[steady robin]

Yeah

but what about if the game calls it

for example Touched

[exotic minnow]

Not really

[hasty mesa]

you're making your system less scalable

and in this case using buffers isn't really benifiting you

and making it way more complicated then it needs to be

[steady robin]

What is even the point in this

I don't really understand it

[hasty mesa]

its to recreate roblox events like touched

for example

[steady robin]

Oh

Is that all?

So instead of it being a roblox event

the script would call Touched

and another script could listen to it

[hasty mesa]

well its meaing to create your own events

[steady robin]

Well yeah

[hasty mesa]

like when a custom object gets it's value increased

or changed

it fires a custom signal

[steady robin]

yeah I understand it now

I didn't know what use case was for it

[random nebula]

hi

[hasty mesa]

@random nebula what do you think

its overcomplicated and would be less efficent then a normal signal lib is what i'm saying

[random nebula]

even ai cant generatetrash like this bro

[steady robin]

damn

[steady robin]

also @exotic minnow

Why do you name variables like that

and table indexes

local signalHandler = {
    CallbackFunctionArray = {},
    AvailableIndexes = {},
    ["#OneTimeLoad"] = true,
    ["#Index"] = "Signals"
}

"#Index"

I don't really understand why you do that

[exotic minnow]

Oh thats just for something outside

[steady robin]

Yeah but why

[exotic minnow]

Its a framework I made for my projects just has some basic dependncy loading with error handling

[steady robin]

👍

[exotic minnow]

This is it

[hasty mesa]

this is how vectors are set vs a buffer

[young rock]

Guys ive been trying to make a function that gives me a number between x and y but i want the bigger numbers to be rarer to get

local Min = 1
local Max = 4
local Random = math.random() ^ 13
return Min+ Random * (Max - Min)

i tried this and played with the numbers but it either gives a big number or a number so close to the minimum so it feels kinda off
could anyone help by any chance?

[random nebula]

@exotic minnow did you know vector3 is smaller than vector2

and like 4x faster

[hasty mesa]

and the base luau value type which is 16 bytes by default

[buoyant zealot]

i know the basics of coding but like whenever i try to make something my mind just goes blank 🙏

[steady robin]

so keep learning

👍

[exotic minnow]

I don't agree that my structure is not scalable and I will stand by buffers being suited for this as I might be dealing with hundreds of connections and in this scenario I cannot give a fuck about absolute simplicity of the code

[hasty mesa]

the problem is efficiency

if you care about speed this isn't better then table

or better in the sense of memory

[steady robin]

Simply use a table

[random nebula]

if you want to make the fastest signal, use an array

buffers will not be faster until u exceed the cache size

[steady robin]

SETTABLE is faster than CALL

[random nebula]

which is like 4k+

[hasty mesa]

well its fast call in this case

but its still slower lmao

[steady robin]

well yeah

[hasty mesa]

unless you have native

[steady robin]

SETTABLE is faster

[exotic minnow]

It is possible

[hasty mesa]

you create a new buffer for each connection

which means its not

[random nebula]

bro i guarentee you will not have 4k signal connecitons and if you do ur code is just ass

[hasty mesa]

as they won't be guaranteed on the same cache or next to each other

[fading bramble]

how to set a model orientation cuz the docs say that method 1 is deprecated and I should use method 2 but method 2 is also deprecated and it says to use method 1

[steady robin]

Just don't do it

[fading bramble]

but I need to bro

[steady robin]

ask chatgpt