code-discussion

[exotic minnow]

Alright I will stop being butthurt and change it

It makes sense honestly I gotta admit

[hasty mesa]

this is the probabily distribution

for your function

[young rock]

yeah it shouldnt look like that

[steady robin]

change the formula

[young rock]

i just blindly changed the numbers but when i decrease the power(13) i get too many large numbers and if i increase it i just get 1.1 most of the time

[steady robin]

local Min = 1
local Max = 4
local Random = math.random() ^ 3
return Min + (Max - Min) * Random

Have you tried this

[young rock]

no i tried ^5 though

[steady robin]

try this

[tawny jacinth]

Working on a cool little catalog game

🤞 hopefully i can get it done in under a week

[steady robin]

clean

[young rock]

i dont think ill be able to try it now as im outside but thank you so much anyways

[hoary cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-bunny-no-nope-nou-gif-13480425249407915803

[cobalt hound]

if i was to start scripting from scratch what do i do?

[mint cloud]

YouTube

[median echo]

Who are some experienced and competent scripters I can reach out to for a project?

[wise turtle]

#scripter-hirable

[median echo]

I'm not a developer myself but I do have some basic understanding of the technical side involved in a Roblox game, so I am aware there are certain limitations on what is and isn't possible.

The project involves 'taking' and 'uploading' pictures in different scenery, environments & locations

• the user takes a 'picture' and everything is captured,
• 'picture' is somehow stored,
• 'picture' is somehow able to be displayed again later

I've constructed a wireframe of the core elements of what would be included in the interface of this system which I've attached below

Is this possible?

[mint cloud]

Yes

[somber vault]

what yall think of the new input action system?

[median echo]

are you able to give an explanation at a high level of how it works?

[mint cloud]

Lemme pull up ChatGPT rq

So apparently there’s no built in function for saving frames, so you have to do a lot of ray casts from the players camera, make that a viewportframe or something and save it to a table

And have to use distance to determine the return size

[median echo]

interesting

[median echo]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/EditableImage

could this help?

[mint cloud]

Possibly, but I think the problem is that you can’t directly capture a frame image

Also, for the editable image to work it has to be handled by server

Though I doubt that would be a problem

[fluid vale]

yo i'm 16 and i js wanna make a fun game, if anyone wants to join together that would be cool. im not like super good at coding, I been coding for like a year now but i took a pretty good break. no money involved. just we both learn together yk.

[median echo]

got it

are you like a competent scripter?

[mint cloud]

Not at all

[strong radish]

lf people to give me feedback on my game

[jade mural]

hi no one

[iron oasis]

howcome modules online have like 20 scripts in them and are designed so differently? my systems only take a couple module scripts

[placid matrix]

cause they know how to modularize

[iron oasis]

for instancethis is a dialogue system and while yes it does have many features i dont understand why SO many modules...
the second picture it something i have created

is there something i need to learn?

[stable urchin]

left: roact moment

(never used it)

[iron oasis]

whats roact

[stable urchin]

haven't made or read the dialogue system so I can't say if it's too modularized

/ bloated

[stable urchin]

by the looks of it you use it if you come from other software development projects

[iron oasis]

im reading it now

the api

its strange

[fossil cliff]

Yo is

Roblox broken rn???

[placid matrix]

single responsibility principle

[placid matrix]

ed

roact is the react port to luau

[iron oasis]

its the same thing

why do the extra work

[oak solar]

guys should i start with building/modelling or animating first

[hoary cedar]

Why do this anyways?

[iron oasis]

i dont know. Im trying to figure out why use roact instead of the base roblox studio api

[hoary cedar]

I'd much rather hand craft the GUI, then load it into Roact for manipulation

If that's even a thing

[iron oasis]

exactly

whats the point of roact

it look like, to me, its made for studios who dont use studio

like, game dev groups who use vs code or github

maybe idk

[dim rock]

Most of the tools like that are intended for larger teams or more enterprise operations & need version control

VSCode & Git hookups let you push/review changes without needing direct access to the place in studio and still allow version control, forking, branching etc

It puts you closer to formal enterprise software development and rollouts

[delicate thorn]

any1 have a spare m1 system i can have to test animations

[plush oxide]

do you guys have any pathfinding frameworks you use

[wise turtle]

I used to think that too but hydration is pretty bad dx. It's hard to explain the benefits without trying both

[iron oasis]

what

[plush oxide]

it really depends but most beginners choose building

[tired rampart]

https://tenor.com/view/roblox-code-script-scripting-roblox-cframe-gif-1231649059019519601

scripters rn

[formal gull]

what does this mean?

srry i dont get the joke

[placid matrix]

it makes ui components reusable and agnostic

[wise turtle]

buzz words

[placid matrix]

literally the most straightforward expression

[plush oxide]

NO PLEASE

camera go brr

[gray escarp]

why do we use waitforchild instead of findfirstchild?

like i get that it makes it work but does it depend on functional code

[shy harness]

you should use waitforchild if you just spawned in and you're looking for character or something

sometimes findfirstchild will miss it

basically you should use waitforchild if you're 100% sure it's gonna spawn in

findfirstchild if not (or waitforchild with timeout, there's a library for it)

[frail yarrow]

waitforchild has a timeout argument

[shy harness]

woaj…

i watched an outdated video

[wise turtle]

theres a waitfor library that uses promises for waitforchild and doesn't yield

[lilac gale]

when you should use wait for child:

• waiting for something that might not be replicated yet like instances in a player's playergui

when NOT to use it

• youre on the server
• anything inside of replicatedstorage (already replicated? i hear mixed opinions but never received a timeout error

note that i said "like"
it doesn't mean that's the only case where something might not be loaded

[gray escarp]

i see

[lilac gale]

findfirstchild wise, i dont use it often

there are some cases you would but

those are self evident most of the time

[placid matrix]

i have 0 waitforchilds

[lilac gale]

cool

[placid matrix]

dont use waitforchild.

[lilac gale]

❌

there are valid use cases

[placid matrix]

yielding ur build for 0 reason

[placid matrix]

name 1

[lilac gale]

i listed one above

read

[placid matrix]

u dont need to wait for playergui so thats not a usecase

[lilac gale]

most literate #code-discussion user

[placid matrix]

exactly

u dont need to wait for instances at all

??

[lilac gale]

yes you do

[placid matrix]

ur entire app should be operating on atomic items

[placid matrix]

then ur architecture is shit.

[lilac gale]

nice deflection

generally

you should yield

[placid matrix]

not a deflection, i just don't need to use waitforchild

[lilac gale]

specific to you

[placid matrix]

u shouldnt have a single yield in ur core game loop

[placid matrix]

specific to good devs*

[lilac gale]

again

most literate #code-discussion user

[frail yarrow]

"core game loop"

[lilac gale]

why would you have a core gameloop

handled on the client

[frail yarrow]

how it feels using ecs n whatnot

[placid matrix]

i dont think u know what a game loop is

[maiden zenith]

Anybody know why this is happening? Is there something with welds that can effect this? It's not the scripts since I tried removing scripts to do with the plane and it STILL does this thing

[gray escarp]

this might be the worst thing someone has ever asked but for loading screens do we use waitforchild

[crude crater]

anyone have tips on learning vector3's and CFrames?

or sources

[crude crater]

search up contentprovider, preloadasync

[gray escarp]

yeah il send it through

[gray escarp]

shit i cant, look up brawldev on youtube and then vector3 he has one for cframe, if you like i can dm you the links

[crude crater]

I'll just look it up

[terse vector]

For my loading screen, I have about ~2,000 lines of set up on the client and about ~150 on the server, so I load the loading screen in a standalone script in ReplicatedFirst so it renders right away, then delete that GUI when my cleint is down loading all it needs.

In other words, use a script in ReplicatedFirst to build it and place it into playerGUi, then choose another script that should only be finished when everything is loaded and have that script delete the loading screen.

I've very rarely seen cases where my client is finished and the world hasn't loaded.

[raven marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/been-missin-you-been-missing-you-missing-you-tooth-dentist-gif-7036058130726364344

[hallow pulsar]

code help ass gif

[raven marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/skype-emo-gif-12875036

[hallow pulsar]

lets not ruin code discussion

[ornate belfry]

why does roblox code assist give these suggestions

[hollow plover]

roblox spitting facts

[bold current]

AI slop that Roblox crammed in

[sage ermine]

How do I task.spawn a modulescript function?

I have a function setup the sorta standard way, so in my script I can call ModuleScript:TheFunction()

but thats not like how task.spawn works

like thats not what it takes

google has not a lot of help

[hallow crag]

task.spawn(function, self)

[hoary cedar]

task.spawn(module.Function, module, ...)

Or

task.spawn(function()
    module:Function(...)
end)

Remember that Table:Function(...) is syntax sugar for Table.Function(Table, ...)

You should not be using the colon operator with your functions unless you intend to make use of the implicit self parameter

Luau, by convention, reserves that syntax sugar for OOP

[sage ermine]

Interesting. This is code I wrote a while back so it's using colons for no particular reason, didn't know i had to pass table in that case

thanks for the info

[frail yarrow]

thats how the colon operator works

[sage ermine]

colonoscopy operation

[frail yarrow]

vro

[ivory kite]

Is there someone here that's super knowledgeable on threads?
I'm having an issue that isn't something I can debug through the console.

Wrong channel

[limber vortex]

how do i turn this on

[young rock]

function RandomNumber(Min, Max, X)
  local Random = math.random()^X
  return Min + Random * (Max - Min)
end

Hi, I am trying to make a function that gives me a random number between Min and Max but i want it to give bigger numbers less often, I tried this but i just cant find the exact X i want, if i make it lower i get large numbers all the time but if i make it higher i get numbers really close to Min most of the time (like Min + 0.05) Could anyone help?

[pure furnace]

I would either debug every line or check the logic of when it gets closed; the thread

[young rock]

do you know any other way to achieve this other than this method

because i think it works without a problem but its just not what i want

[willow marsh]

you should try X between 1 and 2 I think?

[young rock]

thats probably too low, it always gives me big numbers

[willow marsh]

something with a log maybe?

r = math.log(1 + 9 * math.random()) / math.log(10)

You need to be more specific about the distribution of your values

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_normal_distribution

[young rock]

i am really confused 😭

im just trying to make randomly sized fruit like in grow a garden

do you have any idea how the randomness in that game couldve been made? @willow marsh

[willow marsh]

I think they are using a truncated Gaussian

You can set μ to 0 and change the σ

[young rock]

function GetRandomNumber(Minimum, Maximum, X)
    local RandomNumber = math.random()^X
    RandomNumber = Minimum + RandomNumber * (Maximum - Minimum)
    return RandomNumber*math.random(90, 110)/100
end

this kind of solved the problem

[soft marsh]

Searching for a professional UI designer for my basic tower defense game. If you dm me i can show you what type of ui i want and i can even give you some leaks of the game. Payment will be a % of the game tho.

[hallow crag]

wrong channel

[spark willow]

yoooo a fellow ultrawide user

[solemn crescent]

if i were to create a queue table of builds for each player, would i create one large table that has every player in the game's userIds and the have each of those UserIds be a table that have their queue, or would i do it differently?

[spark willow]

it would probably be easiest to have one big table the has user ids as keys and their respective table as the values

[solemn crescent]

ohhh thank you very much

[warm spindle]

Waut no nvm

[little wind]

Yo guys those who develope to buy their dream car tell me what car you wanna buy when you get rich

[spiral jungle]

A toy yoda

[spark willow]

who the hell is developing on roblox to get rich

[uneven jolt]

anyone know how to make an image be forced to an aspect ratio WHILE covering the whole screen (aka, the image gets cut off rather than blank space on the UI'

[little wind]

[little wind]

You mean toyota right

[spiral jungle]

You change the sizing mode to like crop or something

[little wind]

Not toy yoda

[spiral jungle]

Toy yoda

[uneven jolt]

oh my god my dumbass was tinkering with UIAspectRatioConstraint

[little wind]

[uneven jolt]

Thank you my goat

[gray escarp]

Hey anyone familiar with the game trade tower can tell me why its still up ?

Isnt it basically gamblin

[hardy pilot]

Codecussion

[solemn crescent]

I am trying to create a buildQueue for my building game.

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
        PlayerTable[player.UserId] = {

        }
        print(PlayerTable)
    end)
end)```

now to create the build queue, would i create ANOTHER table inside the playerid's table called buildQueue then in there put their builds? or would i just put the builds straight into the playerid's table?

[lost pebble]

i dont see a point in having another nested table. so i would just put the builds in the already existsing table

[summer matrix]

what tf

[steady robin]

What are you trying to do?

[dire comet]

Hi there, I'm currently learning about data stores and following this tutorial:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/datastores-beginners-to-advanced/1275421/1
I've made it to the point in the tutorial where it explains about retries with the get function. The author mentions something about budgets, which is why I'm here: What is meant with budgets, and why are they used? Here is the line I'm at:
We will add a function that yields if there isn’t enough budget.<

[crude crater]

reading from the docs, it says it returns a number of data requests that the current place can make

[dire comet]

Hmm, so it's supposed to keep the loop within a limit?

[echo cliff]

hello

im trying to learn scripting do i start with dev king tutorials

[dire comet]

Probably, yes. But after you've watched a video, maybe consider creating a small project yourself to reinforce what you've just learned. If you can't come up with a project idea, that matches your skill level, perhaps try asking an ai for a project idea.

[crude crater]

from what I can understand, the author made a loop so that whenever the budget is less than 1, its gonna wait until it isn't less than 1

[somber vault]

can anyone help me learn Tween?

[dire comet]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, but what is a budget, in this case? And does roblox just automatically increase the budget count?

[crude crater]

I think its like a counter for how many requests you can store data using roblox's api

I'm not a datastore expert tho

[dire comet]

I can't, unfortunately. I would, though (I do not have much experience), recommend either finding a video about it (there are probably ones on youtube), or looking it up in the documentation (pretty sure it has something about tweens). If there's something you don't understand, try to ask here or, maybe, an AI.

[dire comet]

Okay, thanks for the help Sumbadee.

[crude crater]

also I think roblox automatically increases the budget count that's why you saw in the tutorial that it just stays in the while loop

[echo cliff]

am having a problem learning return

[dire comet]

Hmmm, return? Could you please provide some more context? What part of return don't you understand?

[echo cliff]

let me show you what i made.

[bleak glade]

it will return out of a scope, if inside a function it won’t execute the code after

[echo cliff]

local function hi ()
print ("retunr is so hard im omniying it rn")
return "this is so tuff"
end

hi()

local thisisMyfunction = hi()

print (thisisMyfunction)

is this what return does?

The function then returns the string "this is so tuff". This means that whenever the function hi is called, it will produce this string as its output.

so it prints when the function did its job successfully

[mild dust]

Return exits out of the scope. If you add a string,nil, boolean, thread, integer,nil value then you can obtain that value when calling a function for example.
So you returned a string value "this is so tuff" so that you can access to it

[fringe gazelle]

yall

anyone wanna try my game tho...

[echo cliff]

im a bit confused...

"hi()" is a variable for thisisMyfunction

so when i print thisisMyfunction its returns "this is tuff"

?

[mild dust]

A scope is a block of code. When you create a local variable at the start of the script, you can access that variable in functions because is inside the whole script scope.

Ok

You can visualize scopes

With the Arrow down button at the left of script lines

The code inside it Is a scope

If you create a local variable inside of that scope, It Will be accessible only inside that block

[echo cliff]

ok i understood scope thank god.

but returning is confusing, i am currently wathcing episode 6 of devkings tutorial

[mild dust]

Now be aware that local variables outside scopes are only accessible / recognized by Lines below them

So if you have a function above a local variable It Will not be able to recognize the local variable

[mild dust]

DevKing is so bad

[echo cliff]

so if i put something over a local variable it will not recognize

[echo cliff]

who do i watch

[mild dust]

I don't remember now but there Is a guy

[echo cliff]

is he purple?

i forgot whats his name is he did a tutorial in like 2024

[grizzled dagger]

nah he good

i started learning from his back like couple years ago

[echo cliff]

brawl dev?

[grizzled dagger]

OG alvin blox and devking 🙏

[echo cliff]

i really im trying my best to understand scripting because i promised my friend who is currently an animator he's still learning but im trying to make a cool game with him

like funny projects

[grizzled dagger]

ic

im a tutor

if ur interested lmk

[echo cliff]

how do you like tutor vc or like tips

[grizzled dagger]

vc 1 on 1

if ur interested we can talk more in dms and i can explain my service to you

[echo cliff]

i dont do that kind of stuff because i currently dont have a mic.

[grizzled dagger]

I mean u dont gotta talk

i do vc bc i gotta talk

im the tutor

[strong minnow]

how would a person get a pet simulator like pet to be at a fixed position rather then purely following? i want to make a system where they can sit on your shoulder but most code ends up having them lag behind the player and usually slightly rotated. i want them to be fixed on the players shoulder, always pointing where the player points, but i also want the ability to give it combat where they can sort of fly off your shoulder attack and then return to your shoulder. how would i do that?

[echo cliff]

ill think about it.

[grizzled dagger]

CFrame and offsets that you dynamically change

[bleak glade]

this or welding

[echo cliff]

ill add you and think about it aight?

[grizzled dagger]

Sure

[ivory bronze]

anyone here want to make a game with me? we can come up with the idea, it sounds stupid ik, i am not forcing anyone and also i got no robux but we could maybe make the game go viral with social media, we will split the 100% of the game earnings in half, just need a scripter

[sturdy pilot]

Hi, does anyone know how to get the image id of a decal using an api wrapper (like openblox/noblox)

[mild dust]

Me personally I learn scripting with documentation and courses

[lost pebble]

ive heard he's good

[echo cliff]

can you dm me all the docs for beginners

[dense sentinel]

Roblox dev forums

the best way to learn imo

[mint cloud]

Nah bro

Everyone there is a pro

Just use YouTube

[fiery blade]

Can someone help me out whit this? it keep saying attemp index nil whit 'position'" how should i fix?

[mint cloud]

Are you sending two arguments but only have 1 parameter?

And you don’t use player anywhere in the clientevent

[echo cliff]

ill try documents because many of you suggested it

[fiery blade]

its because its a roll system the local script is attacched to a textbutton (idk if it was this you meant)

[mint cloud]

To clarify, you send player that triggered the event and the a sukuna model?

[mild dust]

You got 2 parameters that you send to the client. You only call for the First, which is the player, therefore can't adress it as position. In the server script, the 2nd argument should be sukunaclone.position, then in the client call whatever you want as the second argument

[echo cliff]

could you send me some docs for scriping i should learn first

[mild dust]

Player is a string value

Not a position

[mild dust]

Man if you don't want to pay for courses then Just use youtube brawldev

[echo cliff]

aight

how did you learn?

[mild dust]

I don't like youtube because youtubers tend to gatekeep info and also there is no youtuber that covers all topics but courses do and the teachers don't gatekeep

And ofcourse since you pay the teaching quality is better

[echo cliff]

so brawldev or devking or alvin

[mild dust]

Devking and Alvin are outdated

[echo cliff]

so brawl

[mild dust]

They are so bad

Genuinely

[echo cliff]

ill do brawl and try my best

[echo cliff]

did you say you did docs

or are docs moneu

money

[mild dust]

I paid for courses

Then I learn deeper by myself with docs

Roblox documentation

It covers all that there is in the engine

[echo cliff]

ill try my best with brawl dev ill see how it ends up

some people have wathced brawl dev and became very good

which is a good sign

[fluid galleon]

😂 sure average newbie after 2 days of coding

[dense sentinel]

Hi I’m looking for someone who’s willing to help us script in our JoJo Anime game we’re trying to make, we currently have a Map Builder, 3D Modeler, Animator we mainly just need an Extra Scripter to help

[fluid galleon]

My code still faster than urs cuz it executes less line just naming variable fancy dont makes a code better idk what u try na show by showing me this script

[dire comet]

Hi there, does anyone know which difference it makes to use task.wait() instead of wait()?

[mint cloud]

No, just use task.wait()

[fluid galleon]

Task.wait() is new and precise

[dire comet]

Okay, thanks for the responses.

[mint cloud]

@fluid galleon ChatGPT is most certainly not a minor

[fluid galleon]

Wait() is legacy it was in old roblox and its not as precise as task.wait()

[fluid galleon]

Minor

[lost pebble]

lua ignores whitespace. they run at the same speed

[steady robin]

What

I’ve been coding longer than you

🤣

[snow veldt]

chill out bruh stop talking with ego, variables dont make it fancy, it makes it organized and more readable

learn from it rather than defending ur bad habits, and yours isnt faster the difference wouldnt even be a couple of nanoseconds

[main forge]

how does this ui look

I didnt use a ton of ui gradients

[somber vault]

https://tenor.com/view/scenequeen-rawrxd-bluehair-emohair-bluehairedscenegirl-gif-6082111839030431653

Colors dont match up well

Look at a color wheel or some shit

[fresh cloud]

is should store the user id as a 56 or 48 bits number? store it as a 64 bits number is really necessary?

[main forge]

@somber vault well how does ur ui look

[somber vault]

Only screenshot i had rip

[main forge]

dang

[fallow depot]

I can help u with making smth better

[visual plinth]

paying 1k robux for scripting

anyone can do it ?

[fresh cloud]

Guys this is okay?

[safe pelican]

i reccomend you use raycast hitboxes or workspace:GetPartsInPart()

rather than .touched

[fresh cloud]

why my pdf is taking so much time to send

[tulip agate]

weird question for a roblox dev server, but does anyone have a good javaScript tutorial I could follow? (got school project coming up which will grade higher if done with JS instead of block code lol)

[strong radish]

how far would 8 ad credits a day get you. how many ccu

[mild dust]

Waste of robux

[strong radish]

nothing is a waste

[mild dust]

Stfu roblox ad system is a scam

[ocean plaza]

anyone have the time to personally help me get better at coding? (I know till DataStores)

[wise turtle]

sure

you can be twist 3.0

[ocean plaza]

what does this mean

[wise turtle]

dw about it!

[ocean plaza]

so ur not actually gonna help?

[wise turtle]

i'll help

[weak radish]

#tutors

[fallow depot]

what's the script u need

[queen tree]

I'm paying $100 for a scripting job so dm me if ur down

[snow veldt]

i got about 500 ccu off of 12 ad credits

[copper apex]

Do u have any ongoing projects

[pallid wasp]

Yo guys, I have a newbie friend who asked me about the basics of scripting.
I wanna ask if you agree with me or not about this.

THESE ARE JUST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND NOT CONFIRMED BY OTHER PEOPLE

1. Learn about Variables
2. Learn how to locate something in explorer aka getting something from explorer.
3. Learn about properties and how you change them via script.
4. Learn about :WaitForChild() and :FindFirstChild()
5. Learn about luau mathematics. Simple math such as plus, subtract and else.
6. Learn about If statement

• List of useful things to know while learning

  • Task.Wait(Number) or Wait(Number)
  • Types of values, which mainly have | Number, String, Boolean, and Object |
  • Use print() to debug or for testing while trying to learn about something. So you can see results in output

• Side quests for you to learn after knowing those basics

  • Events, usually used to connect a function.
  • Client and server difference.

• After knowing the basics, those are advanced you would first look up to.

  • Remote Event
  • CFrame
  • DatastoreService

[placid matrix]

no

[pallid wasp]

Rlly? Which part do you think it should not be there?

[serene terrace]

add for loops

[pallid wasp]

Ohhh yeah. I should have remembered that.

[daring rune]

guys, anyone know why my in game credits would reset if I get promoted through the group rank via api?

[pallid aspen]

can someone pretty please explain to me what this means?

local function ToggleRunning(input, gameProcessed)
    if gameProcessed then return end
    if input.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftControl then
        local humanoid = getHumanoid()
        if running then
            humanoid.WalkSpeed = humanoid.WalkSpeed / 2
        else
            humanoid.WalkSpeed = humanoid.WalkSpeed * 2
        end
        running = not running
    end
end

here's text-version for those who dont like reading screenshots

[open sparrow]

ur using a attribute right?

or a value

and running is the name of it?

[pallid aspen]

no

i read something and thought of this

and it worked but i don't know how it works

learn > go with it

[open sparrow]

well

from what i read

when u hold left ctrl it just increses the speed?

[pallid aspen]

yes but i dont understand the

running = not running and

if running then

[open sparrow]

well

i am prrety sure that is a boolean value

[pallid aspen]

like does it naturally has a true value or something or no set value?

[open sparrow]

and it changes it's value depending on the player speed when it's not holding ctrl for the sprint it wil say not running but when it does it will say running

u can play the game

go on ecplorer

then ur character

scroll down and look at it's attributes

or maybe inside

it might be a value

[hallow crag]

it basically sets running to the opposite of what it is

so if running is true then it sets to false

and vice versa

[pallid aspen]

oh

Thank you guys for the help very much!

[full ruin]

someone here is a good coder in lou i have some questions

[hallow crag]

okay ask then 💀

[midnight wigeon]

Yo is there anyway to automate robux transaction from my acc to player acc for reaching certain milestone

[marble nova]

this is a terrible plan of learning studio

if you think that this is acceptable then you yourself must be a newbie and should learn a lot before teaching others

[hallow crag]

the player would have to create a gamepass and then you would need to interact with a api to purchase the gamepass

[midnight wigeon]

do you know any api that does that i coulndt find it

[empty wind]

Hello, i have a dictionary in which i need to change a variable (it's in a datastore), and i didn't wanna update each variable manually to false. I tried doing this though pairs, it changes the stated value to true but it doesn't change the values from pairs loop to false. What's my mistake? it didn't print out any

[rigid sundial]

I kinda need help, I don’t know how to start scripting etc, can any pro dev/devs give me advices?

[somber vault]

is this unspecified behaviour?

local x = { z = true }
local y = x
x.z = false
x = nil
print(y.z) -- false

since y isn't a copy of x, it's a pointer

[hallow crag]

u have to do oldTable[name] = false instead of val = false

[empty wind]

so i can't use pairs?

[tired violet]

yea

it points to the table

[hallow crag]

u dont even need pairs

but u can use if u want

[empty wind]

but how that's the question

[hallow crag]

depends what value u want to change

[empty wind]

i know i can make them false manually but my script is already 508 lines long

[empty wind]

there are only booleans

[hallow crag]

for example if you wanted to change Orange to false u would do oldTable["Orange"] = false

[hallow crag]

just use the for loop then

and ignore the indexes u dont want to change

[empty wind]

can u describe with more details pls i don't understand

[hallow crag]

this code is correct execpt val = false should be replaced with oldTable[name] = false

[empty wind]

won't i have to specify each value in the for loop then?

[empty wind]

ok ill give it a try ty

[hallow crag]

that code will set every name to false besides Orange

not sure if thats what u want or not

[empty wind]

yes it is

[hallow crag]

alright should work then

[hallow crag]

with this

[rocky lintel]

can anyone help with me code
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138164722252914780/1379519155169923102/image.png?ex=684088d4&is=683f3754&hm=db91663b70de532d8998ecc4f74e85f942f7f9ce69958c3bd1760710cd4aeb4b&

[fluid vale]

yo if youre new to scripting, even if you haven't even touched a script yet. dm me friend.

[hallow crag]

why tf is your code editor pink

[rocky lintel]

problem?

[fluid vale]

my eyes would burn

[hallow crag]

fr

there burning rn after looking at that image

[hallow crag]

whats wrong exactly?

[rocky lintel]

for some reason playsound is nil

[empty wind]

wait do i have to write this for each name..?

sorry for me being dumb

[hallow crag]

just replace the line val = false

[hallow crag]

maybe cause your doing PlaySound:PlaySound()

💀

[fluid vale]

just create a instance.new sound and set its parent to the part you want it to emit from.

and it should be playsound:Play()

[hallow crag]

yeah do that then parent it to soundservice

and then play it

[somber vault]

how can you see the code

[hallow crag]

maybe hes dyslexic

[fluid vale]

i feel like my eyes would burn

[somber vault]

not even talking about the font, as I also have a custom one
just the pink on pink...

[rocky lintel]

wdym it looks fine to me

[honest pagoda]

my eye are buring reading that code

[rocky lintel]

awful code + fire script editor theme

[honest pagoda]

i got the best theme ngl

rate theme

ignore code

[rocky lintel]

mid

[honest pagoda]

nah bro

its Fire

Show Me Yours

[rocky lintel]

@honest pagoda

[honest pagoda]

ohhh

bro how can you work like that

[rocky lintel]

i dont see the issue

looks fine to me

[honest pagoda]

Finding Type Errors Going To Take LONG

[candid palm]

who is a good scripter that can solve me a small quick question

[bronze hedge]

Hello, can someone explain why nobody gets the win, even if you're higher than Y-level 97. I'm bad at scripting.

[somber vault]

use cascadia code font

[honest pagoda]

is it good?

[somber vault]

I like it

[honest pagoda]

show

[hallow crag]

the y is probably less then 97

[honest pagoda]

i dont think so roblox has it

[somber vault]

oh you can't put custom fonts
that sucks

[honest pagoda]

u can

[bronze hedge]

No, I checked it.

[hallow crag]

add a print statement where it increments the wins

[open sparrow]

it should be < not >

y > 97 means y is bigger then 97

[hallow crag]

he wants to check if the y is higher then 97 💀

[bronze hedge]

ye

[open sparrow]

ohh

[hallow crag]

so its correct

just add a print statement

[open sparrow]

i read wrong

[hallow crag]

all g

[honest pagoda]

The script doesn’t add wins because it can’t find the players "Wins" value. Check that "leaderstats" and "Wins" exist before updating.

[hallow crag]

he probably does leaderstats in another script

[hallow crag]

have u checked for errors and added that print statement yet 😭

[bronze hedge]

ye

[open sparrow]

add this under local y = player

        print(player.Name .. ": " .. tostring(y)) 
        if y > 97 then

[honest pagoda]

try this

local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
if leaderstats then
    local wins = leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Wins")
    if wins then
        wins.Value = wins.Value + 1
    end
end

[open sparrow]

this will print if there is any player above y 97

[honest pagoda]

Show us please The Console logs !

bro i been doing my GeometryUtils for the past 4 days 😭

[bronze hedge]

Ai but i gtg thanks for helping i will figure it out eventually

[hallow crag]

^^

[slender yew]

How can I give the player a custom avatar from the server? I'm not talking putting a starter character avatar, I've already created an entire avatar instance, and I just want to put it on the player how can I do that?

[white tinsel]

dit is duidelijk chatgpt bro✌️

[bronze hedge]

Idd🤙

[white tinsel]

ja toch

chatgpt me gat

goat

[bronze hedge]

Fr

Ma in scripten toch minder

[white tinsel]

ja je moet hem gw dinge laten zoeken bro

anders werkt niet

[bronze hedge]

Precies

[hallow crag]

destroy the old character and set the player.Character to the new character

[silk locust]

it already does that automatically because of the 'and'.

so that can't be the problem.

[slender yew]

Will the camera adjust too or na cause Im tryna do it from the server

[urban yacht]

i need a dev for my game ill give head admin

[hallow crag]

yes it will adjust

[slender yew]

Simple enough

Have you used it?

[hallow crag]

yeah many times

if the camera doesnt adjust u can just adjust it manually

[slender yew]

Well you’d need to adjust from the client though which would mean additional cross script communication

[slender yew]

Thank you I’ll try it

Does it have to match the players name?

[hallow crag]

yes

[slender yew]

so u paste a clone of the char into workspace, name it the same as the plr, delete plrs char and set new char as their char?

[hallow crag]

yeah what i tend to do is to freeze the camera with a renderstepped loop when you fire to the server to change the character and then when its changed fire to the client to unfreeze the camera

so the camera stays in the same position

as before

[hallow crag]

yep

[slender yew]

Oh shit thats smart

How do you freeze the camera though? Just set it to scriptable?

[hallow crag]

set to scriptable and then just keep setting its cframe to cframe it was at when you fire to the server

and then just disconnect the connection when u wanna unfreeze

[primal cave]

yo I lowkey need testers for a game I made idk what im doing wrong, idk what I need to add or change can sm1 help out?

[slender yew]

So you disconnect it when the char is destroying I’m assuming?

Plr.Char.Destroying

or na

[hallow crag]

no disconnect when the character is fully changed

i just fire to the client

to unfreeze

[slender yew]

so you fire to client twice to freeze/unfreeze?

[hallow crag]

no so what i do is freeze, fire to the server to change character and then fire to the client

or if u dont wanna fire to the server

then just fire to client to freeze/unfreeze

[slender yew]

Oh you’re detecting the change on client

In my case I’m wondering if u can fully do it from the server

[hallow crag]

if i wanted to have a character selection

then i would have to fire to the server

to change the character

for example

[hallow crag]

yeah u can do fully on the server

but u would have to fire to the client to freeze/unfreeze the camera

[slender yew]

I cannot control the players camera from the server no?

[slender yew]

yeah

[hallow crag]

no u cant

[slender yew]

thats what I’m thinking some communication is needed

Well the character resets once the player dies right?

unless I set it to starter plr

[hallow crag]

what are u trying to achieve exactly?

like what are u making

[slender yew]

psure if u change the char of a player, after their death it resets to their original avatar

[hallow crag]

yeah u will have to turn off character auto loads

and load the character urself

when they die

[slender yew]

I’m trying to change the players avatar to a custom made avatar

[slender yew]

Easier way would be just put it locally as starter player

It’d be replicated right

[hallow crag]

yes thats the best way

[uneven crown]

when using a humanoid:xxx thingy in a touched event it onlty works once how do i make it work more then once/

[hallow crag]

but if you want to change the character mid game then u gotta do the other method

[slender yew]

ah well prolly just gonna do that, I was thinking if there was another way

[slender yew]

Yeah true

Thank you it was a pleasant chat

learnt a bunch

[uneven crown]

local TargetPoint = Target.Position
local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local RootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Debounce = false
local function MoveCommand()
    Humanoid:MoveTo(RootPart.Position - Vector3.new(0,0,RootPart.Position.Z - TargetPoint.Z))
end
MoveCommand()
RootPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if hit ~= game.Workspace.Baseplate and hit ~= Target then
        Humanoid:Move(Vector3.new(4,0,0),false)
    end
end)
``` the touched event only works once

[hallow crag]

no problem

[slender yew]

Why are you checking for whats NOT supposed to hit it

why not check for what u want it to be hit by

[uneven crown]

so it can turn around

OHHH

im stupid

[hallow crag]

oh ur trying to make it so u turn around when u hit something?

i would use raycasting personally

[slender yew]

I hate when people post just a bunch of code with no explanation of what they’re trying to make and want us to help

[open sparrow]

jus use Humanoid:Move(...)

[uneven crown]

i dont know rayvast

im already using humanoid:move

[open sparrow]

ur using MoveTo

[uneven crown]

cgheck again

[hallow crag]

real they just send the code and say "how to fix"

[uneven crown]

its move90

[open sparrow]

if u want that player to follow a path or something then yes use MoveTo

[uneven crown]

i literaly said why does the touched work only once (with humaoind with rootpart it doesnt even work0

[open sparrow]

but if u want a fast push just use Move

[slender yew]

I want to help them but I’m unable to decrypt the goal they want to achieve lmao

[uneven crown]

doesnt move rotate the char

not move it

[hallow crag]

have tried adding print statements

[uneven crown]

i dont debug(ik im a failure0

[hallow crag]

well u should

[open sparrow]

also you are calling humanoid:MoveTo(humanoid.RootPart.Position) before the real MoveTo(TargetPoint)

[static coral]

yo is it possible to expand a dropdown in the explorer with a plugin? im trying to expand workspace bc im inserting objects into it with plugin

[uneven crown]

move rotates the char and that is what i want

moveto moves the char move() roates the char

the first script i sent was by mistake

the orginal script i meant to sent was ```local Target = game.Workspace.Target
local TargetPoint = Target.Position
local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local RootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Debounce = false
local function MoveCommand()
Humanoid:MoveTo(RootPart.Position - Vector3.new(0,0,RootPart.Position.Z - TargetPoint.Z))
end
MoveCommand()
Humanoid.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit ~= game.Workspace.Baseplate and hit ~= Target then
Humanoid:Move(Vector3.new(4,0,0),false)
end
end)

this one works but the touched event works once only

[open sparrow]

You call MoveCommand() a single time, as soon as the script runs. After that MoveTo is never called again

[uneven crown]

it still moves but it doesnt rotate again

[finite swan]

Uh Ai

[hallow crag]

im pretty sure you would have to select a child inside of the instance your trying to expand to make the dropdown expand (using game.Selection:Set)

[finite swan]

i think that can help you

[uneven crown]

tried

[finite swan]

which on

[static coral]

yea i just figured it out

someone just told me this

but thx

[finite swan]

did u try sourcegraph cody or cladue

[hallow crag]

oh alright

[uneven crown]

gpt

[finite swan]

oh no wonder it didn't work

[open sparrow]

it does work

let me try

[finite swan]

@uneven crown

local TargetPoint = Target.Position
local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local RootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Debounce = false

-- Function to make the character face and move towards target
local function MoveCommand()
    -- Calculate direction to face
    local direction = (TargetPoint - RootPart.Position).Unit
    -- Use Move to rotate the character (this preserves Z position)
    Humanoid:Move(direction, false)
end

-- Initial movement
MoveCommand()

-- Handle collisions
Humanoid.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if hit ~= game.Workspace.Baseplate and hit ~= Target and not Debounce then
        Debounce = true
        -- When hitting an obstacle, move right
        Humanoid:Move(Vector3.new(4, 0, 0), false)
        -- Reset debounce after a short delay
        task.wait(0.1)
        Debounce = false
        -- Resume original movement
        MoveCommand()
    end
end)

-- Optional: Update movement periodically to ensure character keeps moving
game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
    if not Debounce then
        MoveCommand()
    end
end)```

[finite swan]

here

tell me if works

[open sparrow]

@uneven crown try this one

local Target = workspace:WaitForChild("Target")
local TargetPoint = Target.Position
local Humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local RootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Debounce = false

RootPart.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if not Debounce and hit ~= workspace.Baseplate and hit ~= Target then
        Debounce = true
        Humanoid:MoveTo(RootPart.Position)
        Humanoid:MoveTo(TargetPoint)
        Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
        Debounce = false
    end
end)

Humanoid.MoveToFailed:Connect(function()
    Debounce = false
end)

[finite swan]

u make or i

[hallow crag]

nobody likes ai slop bro

[finite swan]

show me ur games again

[open sparrow]

Ai just to show u chatgpt is powerful

[uneven crown]

me too but desperate times call for desperate measures

[finite swan]

Ai can be used for scirpting?

[open sparrow]

yes

[open sparrow]

?

[finite swan]

do u know how to script

[finite swan]

do u know how to script

[hallow crag]

ofc i do 💀

[finite swan]

how many years did u waste laerning

[open sparrow]

yea

[coral field]

lmao

[finite swan]

tell me how many years

[open sparrow]

don't say waste

[proper edge]

Any tips

[finite swan]

TELL ME

[open sparrow]

it isn't a waste

[hallow crag]

ai is shit at luau

[coral field]

ai will never surpass humans

[finite swan]

i'm guessing 1-2 years

or higher

[hallow crag]

4 years

[finite swan]

what a waste of time

THAT'S EVEN WORSE OF A WASTE OF TIME

[frail yarrow]

waste?

[finite swan]

u wasted 4 years to learn how to script

[coral field]

how is it a waste

[finite swan]

ai can do the asme

[hallow crag]

how 💀

[open sparrow]

good luck waiting another 5 years so the AI can be as smart as a S1

[coral field]

lol

ai is garbage

[hallow crag]

you cant make a decent roblox game with just ai

r u slow

[finite swan]

CHECK DMS

[open sparrow]

you can but it will be unoptimized

[hallow crag]

yeah thats what im saying

there will be alot of mem leaks

[finite swan]

u can make advnaced games

[frail yarrow]

It'll just be broken

[finite swan]

also

[coral field]

he should just quit

[frail yarrow]

AI is not great at scale

[finite swan]

check dms

[coral field]

if you think that just quit

[open sparrow]

yes, and just as you about to finish the game you look at the ping and memory usage and u see over 200 ping and over 3000 memory usage😭

[coral field]

no need for you to waste space here

[frail yarrow]

Idk how you could try to coax AI into writing good code

[open sparrow]

@uneven crown did it work?

[uneven crown]

nah same as mine but im trying to understan more about move9)

[frail yarrow]

you'd have to try to get it to comprehend and factor in the full scope of a codebase

Which its not good at

[open sparrow]

i mean the one i gave you

[uneven crown]

yeah it has the same output as mine works once only

touched event are soo weird ig thats why raycast more famous for bigger game

[violet coyote]

how to learn lua

[frail yarrow]

True!

.touched is very scuffed

[hardy pilot]

What is wrong with Touched

[uneven crown]

yt

[hardy pilot]

Other than being partially handled on the client

which is fine as long as you're aware

[frail yarrow]

Its unreliable and inaccurate

[uneven crown]

it works weirdly

[hardy pilot]

I don't know, it fires pretty much all the time on point

[empty wind]

hey. I had an issue where this didn't work. There's a dictionary that i need to update in a datastore, and if a value becomes true the others need to become false inside of it. So a guy told me to put oldTable[name] = false instead of val = false and it worked. Now can someone explain why? cuz i didn't get it, like in both val and oldTable[name] i am supposed to get access to the variable's value am i not?

[hardy pilot]

TouchEnded might but I've never had Touched fail

[frail yarrow]

Well my hitreg has a lot of client stuff too

[placid matrix]

its shit

[open sparrow]

@uneven crown bro i am so dumb, did you even try to add wait()? bcs it might overide it

[empty wind]

it doesn't work with tweens...

[hardy pilot]

It's a physics event

[empty wind]

that's why

[cedar patrol]

Really need some help with my code, I am using these 2 open source scripts 1 is a head movement script the other is a replication script from the forum (linked)

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/stupid-simple-fast-character-position-replication/3162721

[hardy pilot]

Why would you need to detect two anchored parts touching

[uneven crown]

i made one but its kinda scuffed so yeah

[frail yarrow]

do people still use tweens

Cringe

[open sparrow]

oldTable[name] = false ?

[uneven crown]

less and less and tween is good

[hardy pilot]

:<

[empty wind]

though there's a solution, u can either use GetTouchingParts() or GetPartBoundsInBox() (though i don't really know how the second one works)

[hardy pilot]

I mean sometimes

[uneven crown]

getpartsinparts thingy works aswell

[vast maple]

anyone know how i can make the server wait for the profile to load in this

    -- Sync player data
    local Profile = DataManager.Profiles[Player]
    if not Profile then 
        warn( "Profile does not exist" )
        return
    end
    
    ReplicatedStorage.LocalScriptPlayerData:FireClient(Player, Profile.Data.cash,  Profile.Data.Copper, Profile.Data.MineUpgradeLvl, Profile.Data.CopperSmelterUnlocked, Profile.Data.SmelterUpgradeLvl, Profile.Data.CopperIngots)
end```

[empty wind]

yes

[hardy pilot]

Yeah but it can get expensive quickly

So I would still use Touched where ever possible

[frail yarrow]

Why not send the client player.data

[open sparrow]

insted of val = false use oldTable[name] = false

[frail yarrow]

I wouldnt used touched for my hitreg

[hardy pilot]

RemoteFunction requesting the data

[vast maple]

it gives me nil

[hardy pilot]

so the client yields until you give them

[empty wind]

dude i'm asking why it works like that cuz a guy already told me to put that

[open sparrow]

oh sorry i must have read wrong

[vast maple]

uhm might sound stupid but how would i request the data with a remote function from a server or local script

[open sparrow]

oldTable[name] = false changes the table itself by replacing the value at that key with false

[hardy pilot]

From the client, :InvokeServer()

[open sparrow]

actually writes back into oldTable

[empty wind]

and what does val exist for then..?

[open sparrow]

holds a copy

[empty wind]

ohh i get it now ty

[open sparrow]

np

[uneven crown]

finaly made my script work altough its unethical and will get u PHYICAL PAIN here it is

local TargetPoint = Target.Position
local Humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid
local RootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Debounce = false
local function MoveCommand()
    Humanoid:MoveTo(TargetPoint)
end
MoveCommand()
Humanoid.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    if hit ~= game.Workspace.Baseplate and hit ~= Target then
        RootPart.CFrame = RootPart.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(45), 0)
        print("rotated")
        task.wait(1)
        Humanoid:MoveTo(RootPart.Position + Vector3.new(8,0,0))
        print("move a bit")
        task.wait(1)
        print("Back to main quest")
        MoveCommand()
    end
end)

[open sparrow]

see told u

add wait

[uneven crown]

thats my own script that i changed ALOT

[open sparrow]

bcs it overides it without the wait

and sometimes it won't work

[uneven crown]

no it was cuz i made it rotate to 1 direction only

instead of turning 45 degree everytime it was rotated in 1 direction only

[open sparrow]

didint see that in ur code

[frail yarrow]

I should try to shill ECS to noobs

OOP has so many glazers that prey on noobs

I gotta replicate that

[hollow hemlock]

just shill jabby

that convinces half of them

[frail yarrow]

did you get a notification when I said ECS

[hollow hemlock]

no comment

[uneven crown]

whats ecs oop

[vast maple]

problem is its not in a module script its supposed to be a server script for profilestore

[placid matrix]

ecs users when they cant bulk transform:

[uneven crown]

whats ecs and oop??

object oreinted program or what

what does ecs stand for

[placid matrix]

extracurriculars

[uneven crown]

escorting c-lvl-blackers side-knack

[willow marsh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

[frail yarrow]

entity component system

[wise turtle]

enity componet system

[proper veldt]

is this suitable for a player to be morphed into?

[proper edge]

What more could I add

[hoary cedar]

Lowkey, I would shorten the duration of the first phase

[mild dust]

Screenshake + FOV cmon dude

That looks so boring

[proper edge]

There is screenshake?

It’s quiet a lil tho cuz I’m zoomed out

[proper edge]

Although fov is a good idea

[proper edge]

Alr

[mild dust]

Also

The vfx spawns outta fucking nowhere

[proper edge]

But then the animation wouldn’t work tho cuz I have the animation first two seconds and the arrow spawns next 2 and fires

[proper edge]

It’s after u release z

[mild dust]

Bringing vfx instantly like that is bad

[proper edge]

fair point

I was thinking off adding some second vfx once arrow soawns

Spawns

[lapis wraith]

whats the best way to get into scripting? i know somewhat of the basics

[pearl blaze]

Starting from lowest level of computer science ending with luau scripting language.

CPU, Memory, Hardware inner workings.
v
Assembly
v
C++
v
Luau

[lapis wraith]

ive never learnt cs in school

theyve never offered it

[wise turtle]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-scripting-roadmap-learning-resource-list/808430

[lapis wraith]

also isnt lua easiest lang?

[lapis wraith]

ty bro just got to the point insteasd of waffling

🔥

[obsidian sun]

what the heli

[pearl blaze]

Ironically fastest method to learn, if you're starting from the top you will have no idea what you're doing, getting yourself confused every time.

[wise turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/ragebait-rage-bait-lol-lmao-gif-3554026694133497645

[pearl blaze]

Better to be able to do everything while being sure what you're doing instead of doing some basic stuff only

[lapis wraith]

its jus extra

[obsidian sun]

just learn lua its literally one of the easiest languages use ai and youtube and other open source projects to learn itll take a while to get the hang of it

[frail yarrow]

so we advocating for pasting

[obsidian sun]

How else would you learn?

[lapis wraith]

its taking timeeeeeeeeee patienceeeeeee is needed

[frail yarrow]

luau is a really easy language to learn

[obsidian sun]

(thats how you learn)

[frail yarrow]

Since when is copying learning?

[obsidian sun]

I said use ai, youtube, and other open source projects to learn how the coding language works

[wise turtle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/710563050025123882/1307714158078197860/scriptingez.gif

[frail yarrow]

By looking at it or what?

[obsidian sun]

Yes

[frail yarrow]

Thats fair

[obsidian sun]

its like reading a book to get info

[wise turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/fuckaroundfindout-fuckaround-findout-gif-27158554

how you learn ^^

[frail yarrow]

You gotta understand and internalize it

[obsidian sun]

also just use roblox docs

[mint cloud]

When did the skids migrate to code discussion 🥀

[royal ibex]

is _G useful?

[hasty mesa]

No

[compact shell]

anyone good at scripting want to help me on a game I'm making, its building/physics based

[royal ibex]

how come ? security? or just not needed

[merry musk]

How would you guys quantify someone's level in scripting? What are some systems that each level of scripter should be comfortable doing in your opinion?

[mint cloud]

All I know is you’ve gone too far once you start talking about json

[wise turtle]

slow indexing speeds, no auto complete, prone to race conditions & introduces hard to find bugs

[crisp steppe]

who here knows OOP looking for comm work dm me

[pearl blaze]

Basically yeah but community hates it because there's no reason to use it because there's better alternatives.

Basically if you wanna use _G for something then there's a better way without using _G

[royal ibex]

whats a better way

[pearl blaze]

What the case you wanna use _G in?

Depends on that highly.

[static summit]

Is someone able to help make a PA system? Like you have a microphone and it projects your VC voice from the microphone into the speaker and makes your voice louder and stuff.

[pearl blaze]

Also yeah _G is slower for some reason, better alternative will be using ModuleScript for whatever you're doing.

[pearl blaze]

Learn every class in documentation that has "Audio" in it's name.

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/AudioDeviceInput

[static summit]

?

[pearl blaze]

Those instances let you do stuff that you want.

Learn them.

Those are instances you can create in your place, like AudioDeviceInput.

[static summit]

Ooh.

[pearl blaze]

This documentation explains them in detail

[static summit]

But how do I like wire them together?

[pearl blaze]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-audio-api-beta-elevate-sound-and-voice-in-your-experiences/2848873

[static summit]

Why is roblox down now?

Like, ofc when I actually get a source that is reliable.

[crisp path]

like bro why noone actually knows about status.roblox.com

[static summit]

Are there scripts needed?

[pearl blaze]

Why ask me just check out the stuff I gave you.

I dunno, probably? Games usually always have scripting involved, so whatever you wanna make defo will need scripting

[ember nimbus]

use desktop app

[static summit]

Doesn't work on there

[static summit]

I did, but it only just shows what each thing does.

[pearl blaze]

Well yeah?

[steady thunder]

pfp checks out 😭

[crisp path]

he wants free code

https://tenor.com/view/bh187-spongebob-patrick-star-derp-duh-gif-21500047

[pearl blaze]

Scripts can change properties of those instances or add/remove them, you can do the same manually.

[static summit]

I know there are scripts needed.

[pearl blaze]

I guess you can decide yourself if you need scripting or not.

[dense sentinel]

curious if anyone would be interested in joining a team of devs we currently have a 3D Modeler, Animator, Map Builder, UI Designer and SFX we mainly just need a Scripter on the team

[candid abyss]

what type of game is it

[dense sentinel]

it’s like this JoJo stand game

we have a pretty good thing set up for it

[candid abyss]

what's jojo stand

[dense sentinel]

you know like JoJos Bizarre Adventure

the anime

[candid abyss]

no

[dense sentinel]

hmmm how do I say this

like these powerful spirits that awaken inside of people from an arrow

basis of the game is you use an arrow

you get a spirit

[dim rock]

Pretty good description

[dense sentinel]

don’t like it the you use a Roka which removes the spirit

then rinse and repeat

it’s a fighting game too

that’s the basics of the game

then there’s stuff like if the spirit can awaken to a higher level you can do a quest that allows you to reach a higher tier

I think I summed it up pretty well

[static coral]

what the yap

[white aurora]

yo goys

since code help is not code help anymore, and certainly this channel isnt either

yes

[mint cloud]

It was yesterday idk what happened

[near hinge]

What is the largest commission you have ever got

[rustic inlet]

No advertising in chat

[crude crater]

is it recommended to use a pathfinding module?

I've heard roblox's default pathfinding is trash

[glass garden]

It's not trash, it's just general purpose, so there's some trade-offs. Eg if you have just a simple node setup for pathfinding, a custom A* impl will be much faster

Also the key to good pathfinding perf is floodfilling ahead of time to find designated areas that are isolated from each other, so you don't try to run the algorithm to the ground in impossible searches

[shy harness]

lol

[empty mulch]

whatd you do for the green 👀

[ruby iron]

simplepath is pretty good

[nocturne solar]

-- [[ FUNCTIONS ]] --
local function createIK (name, chainRoot, target, endEffector)
    
    local IKControl = Instance.new("IKControl"); IKControl.Parent = humanoid
    IKControl.Name = name
    IKControl.Type = Enum.IKControlType.Transform
    IKControl.ChainRoot = chainRoot
    IKControl.Target = target
    IKControl.EndEffector = endEffector
    
    return IKControl
end

local function locateTargetPosition (origin)
    
    local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
    raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {character}
    raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude

    local result = workspace:Raycast(origin.Position + Vector3.new(0,2,0), Vector3.new(0,-3,0), raycastParams)
    
    if result then
        return result.Position
    end
    
end

local leftTarget = createTarget("LeftFootTarget", leftFoot.Position)
local rightTarget = createTarget("RightFootTarget", rightFoot.Position)

local leftFootIK = createIK("LeftFootIK", leftUpperLeg, leftTarget, leftFoot); 
local rightFootIK = createIK("RightFootIK", rightUpperLeg, rightTarget, rightFoot)

local leftLastHit = nil
local rightLastHit = nil
local UPDATE_THRESHOLD = 0.1 -- studs

runService.Stepped:Connect(function()

    local leftTargetPosition = locateTargetPosition(leftUpperLeg)
    local rightTargetPosition = locateTargetPosition(rightUpperLeg)

    if leftTargetPosition then

        leftFootIK.Enabled = true

        leftTarget.Position = leftTarget.Position:Lerp(leftTargetPosition, 0.5)
        leftFootIK.Enabled = true

    else
        leftFootIK.Enabled = false
    end

    if rightTargetPosition then

        rightTarget.Position = rightTarget.Position:Lerp(rightTargetPosition, 0.5)
        rightFootIK.Enabled = true

    else
        rightFootIK.Enabled = false
    end

end)

how am i supposed to avoid this rapid jittering from the foot

[rain osprey]

working on a fake roblox player npc powered by statemachines

[somber vault]

Make em wander too

[rain osprey]

I am

[hardy pilot]

Add randomness

[rain osprey]

I'm working on the wander and socialize state

[somber vault]

Maybe the surface was too close to the hip that's why some constraints don't compliment each other anymore and it starts jittering

[rain osprey]

yeah there's randomness lul

sometimes it stops, it can stand around a bit and look around, etc

[hardy pilot]

Not enough with that robotic movement

[rain osprey]

that's pathfindjng service

Also that's a bad example

[hollow plover]

bro

💔

[naive atlas]

lmfao

[hot wraith]

2 Variants of Astral.

[glass garden]

Octree

[hardy pilot]

I dont know, it seems pretty bad at its job ib my case

Unable to find obvious paths, going around something entirely outside of the correct path

[crude crater]

is it good practice to put a localscript in the starterplayer to manage gui's in startergui?

[hallow crag]

yes

[weak radish]

no it depends

[hallow crag]

i never put scripts in startergui its bad practice

justput a localscript in starterplayerscripts that handles a frame or hud component

[weak radish]

Why would you put it in starterplayer for UI that has resetonspawn

[hallow crag]

i never have resetonspawn enabled on my screen guis

[weak radish]

So? It's still bad practice to do it every time

[hallow crag]

wdym?

the scripts are just gonna load once

in starterplayerscripts

[weak radish]

Yes.. and if the UI has resetonspawn?

[hallow crag]

nobody has resetonspawn enabled

i have never enabled that shit

[weak radish]

Stop avoiding that you're wrong LMAOO

It's used a bunch

[hallow crag]

why should i put scripts in startergui when i have resetonspawn disabled

its just preference

[weak radish]

I can't deal with ragebaiters rn

[hallow crag]

im not even ragebaiting its preference at the end of the day

i personally dont like localscripts scattered around in startergui

[weak radish]

Bro I said it's not always best practice if there's reset on spawn, you'd be stupid to put the script in playerscripts for resetonspawn ui

[hallow crag]

yes true but nobody ever has resetonspawn enabled anyway

[weak radish]

Yes they do

[hallow crag]

okay give me a scenario where it would need to be enabled

[weak radish]

A screen where you choose where to spawn eg in a map

[dull bone]

who can give me some things to make for my portfolio

its empty rn

[hallow crag]

why would u need resetonspawn enabled 💀

[weak radish]

Because you choose where to spawn each time you die???

[hallow crag]

u can just detect when you die and make it visible urself

what if u wanted it to have a transition to open

u cant just use resetonspawn

[weak radish]

Yes you can?

[hallow crag]

theres no point tho

[weak radish]

How are you even gonna check when they respawn on player?

[hallow crag]

uhhhh you can use Humanoid.Died or CharacterRemoving

[weak radish]

Character removing doesn't work on client

And even if it did there still no point of detecting on removing and on spawn instead of just writing it in character scripts😭

[hallow crag]

yes it does 💀

if its in starterplayerscripts

[weak radish]

My last comment still applies lmao now stop ragebating bro Icba with you

[misty gale]

Yo guys

İm so confused rn

[tardy pasture]

good be confused

[slow whale]

dead chat

[copper apex]

What is that in the top left

[empty mulch]

Good 😊

[midnight wigeon]

how can we find the actual product id of a gampass?

[hallow crag]

go to the gamepass dashboard

click 3 dots

and theres a copy id button

[worthy ravine]

Is it possible to scrape my account transaction logs alongside transcation logs from multiple of my groups to make a website dashboard of how much robux is being generated across everything

[hallow crag]

theres probably an api to get transaction logs

[worthy ravine]

is there a site where i can view all the api's?

[worthy ravine]

because ive done some research and im not finding anything related to this

[hallow crag]

just open inspect go to network then load your transaction logs

and there should be a request

to an api

[worthy ravine]

400 requests

[glossy wave]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/all-of-robloxs-apis/2290645

could this be of help?

[hallow crag]

https://economy.roblox.com/v2/users/userId/transactions?cursor=&limit=100&transactionType=Purchase&itemPricingType=PaidAndLimited

[worthy ravine]

ah so i should be using something similar to that?

[hallow crag]

yes but u wont be able to view other peoples purchases

and u will ur own api to interact with that api

[worthy ravine]

elaborate on what "other peoples purchases" mean

[somber vault]

you can put any user id there, look at the URL

[somber vault]

but it won't work

[worthy ravine]

i need to pull payouts from my account & user purchases in the group

[hallow crag]

thats fine u will need ur roblox cookie

thats all

[worthy ravine]

okay, so what im trying to do is entirely possible?

[hallow crag]

yeah

[worthy ravine]

ok cool, thank you

[somber vault]

that's a security risk tho