code-discussion

[fluid pier]

yall, give me a random asset idea to make to practice (im a scripter + ui designer)

[soft quarry]

are coroutines any good? i just learned about them

[coral prawn]

They're used for non-blocking tasks.

[soft quarry]

so it would be the same thing as adding another script to run in parallel, except with coroutines you get to choose when you run it?

[coral prawn]

Yeah, pretty much.

[soft quarry]

Okay, thank you

[soft quarry]

quit man it looks awesome

[silver verge]

function to add value for a user, keep track of all userids and their best value, update store and clear the table

[weak radish]

first was better 😭

Yep we're all free!!

[warm spindle]

Is getpartsinbound guaranteed to return success?

Maybe make it like update once per 10 minutes and make a seperste datastore for it?

Or maybe even store leaderboard outside roblox as json to not get datastore rate limited by roblox

Nvm

If you update it once per minute

It will fire after datsstore request limit

Because its 60 + numbofplayers * 10

And resets every minute

Maybe even less

Like 4 times per minute

[dire comet]

Hi, can someone please answer my question: Should I be naming my instances (not sure if it's an instance, but I'm thinking of a remote event) with a large character inside of my script (I do so for the instances in the explorer, but currently not in my scripts).

[warm spindle]

Or like 8

If you only use datsstore for storing data on leave and loading on join

[warm spindle]

Name it same as it is in explorer

[dire comet]

Okay, thank you.

[coral prawn]

I'm excited for this system 😄

[dire comet]

Hi there, I have another question:
When a data storage doesn't load correctly, what is the second variable going to be?

[proven depot]

why is it not following the path. i set the priority of the paths to 0 and the air math.huge()
this script btw:

local function moveNinjaToTarget(ninjaModel, destinationCFrame)
    local humanoid = ninjaModel:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid")
    local hrp = ninjaModel:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
    if not humanoid or not hrp then return end

    local walkAnim = Instance.new("Animation")
    walkAnim.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://135046542617978" 
    local animTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(walkAnim)
    animTrack:Play()

    local path = PathfindingService:CreatePath({
        AgentRadius = 2.5,
        Costs = {
            Path = 0,
            Air = math.huge,
        }
    })
    path:ComputeAsync(hrp.Position, destinationCFrame.Position)

    if path.Status == Enum.PathStatus.Success then
        local waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()
        coroutine.wrap(function()
            for _, waypoint in ipairs(waypoints) do
                humanoid:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
                humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
            end
            animTrack:Stop()
        end)()
    else
        warn("Path not found!")
        animTrack:Stop()
    end
end

[weak radish]

I don't understand what those grey streaks are on the ground

[coral prawn]

My gun system, those gray cones are where the bullet/raycast went through.
And the colored spheres means they hit something.

[weak radish]

I get that but why does it look like you shot them while inside the floor

Unless the point is to have the streaks in the ground not the air

[coral prawn]

The pointy side is where the bullet was headed.

It's the opposite.

This is fun.
The left side is the spread when stationary.
The right side is the spread when moving while shooting.

[hasty shore]

That looks very intriguing

Is it a system where when you shoot through a player the bullet can ricochet and hit another player but with less damage?

[coral prawn]

Nah, wouldn't make sense for the bullets to bounce off of flesh, I might add a chance to ricochet off of walls though. I'm still gonna have to figure out the penetration mechanic since I might deal with materials and what not.

[hasty shore]

Oh i used the wrong i meant to go straight through haha then hit a player standing directly behind them or proportional to their position from which the bullet was shot, but bouncing in walls sound fun

[coral prawn]

The penetration and ricochet mechanics are already functional.

[hasty shore]

Nice

[coral prawn]

Honestly, yesterday I thought that this was gonna be difficult but I'm surprised I figured it out this morning. Probably helps that I already made an FPS system 2 months ago.

[hasty shore]

It looks difficult to me, but then again i started learning scripting a week ago

but i prolly have a concept of what you did to achieve that

[coral prawn]

Oh, welcome. Every aspect of game dev is pretty fun.

[hasty shore]

Mhm i know

Could u add me back rq?

[coral prawn]

It's pretty much a mix of Roblox's FPS template and FastCast that is heavily modified by me.

[hasty shore]

Ohhh i thought you made the trajectory system and everything from scratch sometimes i forget roblox has templates for certain games

[coral prawn]

No way, I'll cry lol.

[hasty shore]

lolol

[weak radish]

Ah okay I think the angle from earlier confused me

[weak radish]

That's not as hard as you think

[coral prawn]

"Anything is possible, sometimes it just takes forever to do.": random quote lol

[weak radish]

I mean you could do it in like a day 😭

I made a bullet system with speed (not instant) and raycasts but it only shot in the direction the player was facing

so where they clicked was irrelevant, it would release from a specific part in the gun and move in a constant direction

[hasty shore]

Any tips for me as a beginner?

[coral prawn]

Try to understand code before you copy and paste it, watching tutorials is fine but don't completely copy everything in the videos. Using ChatGPT for some insights, explanations and generally some improvements to your code should be fine, this is based on my experience. AI is only bad if you completely rely on it. AI is not gonna go away anytime soon so you might as well take advantage of it.

I just treat ChatGPT like a better Google search engine lol

[lean ocean]

Using chatgpt for improvements to your code

I lost u there

[coral prawn]

Yeah, what about it?

It will help analyze your code so that you can improve it.

[lean ocean]

you should write in your own style + chatgpt isn't the best at scripting

[coral prawn]

That's why you should understand code first.

It's just there to aid you, not replace you.

[lean ocean]

It's ass anyways I would only use it for asking questions if I was a beginner

like ask it to explain how functions work or whatever

[hallow crag]

idk about u but chatgpt makes my code worse

[warm spindle]

Last time I used chatgpt was when it gave me code with all functions depreciated

[coral prawn]

It just depends on the user 🤷‍♂️

[hallow crag]

real

chatgpt uses depricated functions

[warm spindle]

Fr

Knowledge of 2015😟

[austere wasp]

how do i change roblox chat limit?

[hallow crag]

chatgpt be using RunService.Heatbeat i use RunService.PostSimulation

[warm spindle]

Heartbeat is good

[hallow crag]

PostSimulation is the new version

[ember nimbus]

heartbeat is deprecated

[warm spindle]

Oh is it

[ember nimbus]

either that or superseded

[warm spindle]

Since when

[ember nimbus]

idk like a year maybe

[warm spindle]

Dang

Still using it tho

[warm spindle]

Not for precise calculations tho

[coral prawn]

This is an example of how I use it.

[ember nimbus]

mb, 3 years

maybe 4

[warm spindle]

Do you maybe know if getpartsinbound returns always without any error?

[ember nimbus]

no errors

[warm spindle]

Or it can just not return anything even if theres a part

[ember nimbus]

was deprecated https://robloxapi.github.io/ref/updates/2021.html#version-d2601ad1c0ca4700-6 then de-deprecated https://robloxapi.github.io/ref/updates/2021.html#version-00ed05e620334247-58

[ember nimbus]

empty table

[hallow crag]

u can just use devforum or documentation for that

😭

[warm spindle]

But can it not detect part?

[hallow crag]

no need for outdated explanations from gpt

[ember nimbus]

if it detects a part it gets a table of hit parts

if it doesn't

empty table

so it's just a table of hit parts

[warm spindle]

Yes but I asked if it is guaranteed to get a part

If used correctly

[ember nimbus]

if it actually hit a part yes

[warm spindle]

But is it guatanteed to hit a part?

[ember nimbus]

no

[warm spindle]

Whats the chance of failing?

[ember nimbus]

it will not hit a part if it is not intersecting a part

if it is intersecting a part

it will return that part

[warm spindle]

I asked if sometimes it's logic can get buggy and not return a part even it should

[ember nimbus]

are you using it for a hitbox?

[warm spindle]

No

For detecting parts

In a very big folder

[ember nimbus]

are you running the check every frame?

[warm spindle]

No

Only when I use ability

And it checks around 30 sections

[ember nimbus]

wdym 30 sections

[warm spindle]

Like it fires 30 times

Sections like CFrame + size

[ember nimbus]

how do you know it fails to return parts it intersects

[warm spindle]

I mean

I dont know

When it fails

Thats the problem

[prisma prism]

Im a starter scripter and im stuck in this spot where i know code but cant make anything like crazy and im like stuck and cant make anything really so anybody have any tips on how i could progess

[ember nimbus]

so you think it might be failing but haven't seen it fail?

[warm spindle]

I run it really frequently

And game isnt released

So perhaps if it hits some good ccu players might encounter bugs with it

Very small once

[ember nimbus]

so yes you have never seen it fail?

[lean ocean]

You gotta just keep making stuff tbh

[warm spindle]

But when it fails then kinda entire code breaks

[warm spindle]

Dude

[lean ocean]

like script random stuff that comes to ur mind

[warm spindle]

Thats like asking have you rolled 1 in 100k alone

Instead of if 1k people will roll it

[prisma prism]

because im trying to make gang beasts inspired game but idek where to start

[lean ocean]

What

[coral prawn]

Made the ricochet mechanic. If the bullet is allowed to penetrate then it'll check the angle and ricochet based off it.

[hasty mesa]

never errors unless you give it the wrong arguments

[warm spindle]

I mean it messes up with table kind of

[warm spindle]

I mesnt if it is guaranteed to find the part without any errors

[ember nimbus]

spatial query functions can return 0 parts, they do not throw errors

if it intersects no parts it returns no parts

[warm spindle]

@ember nimbus

Like

[lean ocean]

there's no guarantee wym

[ember nimbus]

it will not error, it may not find a part, if will find the part if it does actually intersect it

if the hitbox is in thin air

there will be no parts returned

just an empty table

[warm spindle]

Is it 100% chance it will return a part when part is there and all the arguments are used correctly

[ember nimbus]

yes

[warm spindle]

Oh ok

Should I add a check tho?

[ember nimbus]

that a part is returned?

[warm spindle]

Yes

[ember nimbus]

yes because it may not return a part

[warm spindle]

Whats the chance

[ember nimbus]

it may not return a part if there is no part to return

you cannot guarentee that wherever you check will have a part in it

[warm spindle]

Yes but if theres a part is it guaranteed to return it?

[ember nimbus]

yes, but there is not guarenteed to be a part

[warm spindle]

When I make it check again is it way smaller chance of failing again?

[coral prawn]

Ricochet and penetration mechanic.

[ember nimbus]

it will not fail if you add a check

[warm spindle]

When I add check it will not fail

[ember nimbus]

yes

[crude crater]

should I use placementservice module for a game? It hasn't been updated since 2 years ago

[chrome goblet]

Ello

[open sparrow]

Use GridPlacer

[hardy pilot]

What is that?

[open sparrow]

same as placementservice but insted of placing it however u want, you place the parts in a grid

[hardy pilot]

What is placement system

[open sparrow]

it's like a building system, where you place down walls floors etc

like the game Rust has

or Ark

[hardy pilot]

Why would you need a library for grid placing

[open sparrow]

what?

[hardy pilot]

GridPlacer

[crude crater]

I'm making a sandbox tycoon game, is it a good module?

[open sparrow]

oh

well

idk really you don't have to use one

but it saves lots of time

[hardy pilot]

I doubt it tbh

[open sparrow]

yea but, is bets if u make ur own

[hardy pilot]

Grid placement is piss easy

One line
Two lines for tracking

[open sparrow]

not really

[hardy pilot]

Origin + TargetPosition // CellSize

[crude crater]

tried it but I can't get it to snap perfectly inside the plot

[open sparrow]

also to make it a modular system it takes longer

[hardy pilot]

Grid[posizion] = item

[open sparrow]

there is also some tutorials on youtube

[crude crater]

the math is confusing

[hardy pilot]

Well what are some specific uses

[open sparrow]

well, when you have lots of buildings, or when you want to use it in multiple ocassions tons of them

for example

[hardy pilot]

Specific uses

[open sparrow]

you have a hammer right, you want when you hold that hammer you can start palcing but also for example you also have a map, you also want to use that map for placing aswell

you just call it and use the same module

for both

[hardy pilot]

Does it like

handle replication?

[open sparrow]

modules?

[hardy pilot]

the library grid placer

[open sparrow]

well

you blocked me here

[hardy pilot]

I mean if it doesnt I imagine its very short

[open sparrow]

i don't think i understood the question

[hardy pilot]

Well you might want the client to have a copy of the grid

[open sparrow]

and it replicates to the server?

[coral prawn]

Penetration is now chance based.

[hardy pilot]

no, client

[hardy pilot]

Gambling!!

[agile patrol]

Hi someone got a tutorial or something to make a strength gain with clicks and then nps with s hp bsr that drops coins apon killong?

[coral prawn]

Nuh uh, skin cases are chance-based. Roblox allows them 😄

[open sparrow]

Client-Side Replication?

[hardy pilot]

True..

[hardy pilot]

Yes, server to client

[open sparrow]

ohh

well

the client saves the data like the positon and rotation and sends it to the server through a remote event after that the server verifies if it's true and then it sends the data back to the all clients

[hardy pilot]

So, no.

[open sparrow]

yes

u can, i tought u needed a explanation

you can like

do

Module.RequestPlacement()

[crude crater]

ye thats what I would do

[hardy pilot]

Oh, Ig thats cool

But the client doesnt have a copy of the grid?

They can only request to place at a position

[crude crater]

I think the module doesn't show the grid

the parts just snaps to a grid

[hollow thicket]

hmmm how do i script better ai after i learnt the basics of pathfinding including following closest player

[hardy pilot]

Idk that still kinda sucks

[hardy pilot]

Behaviour wise?

[hollow thicket]

hmmm

i dont know about these bc im still a noob

maybe i need some video to improve myself

[brave elbow]

Anyone can hire me as a scripter

[spiral jungle]

No

[brave elbow]

Can you dono me so

[spiral jungle]

Ok

[brave elbow]

Dm me

[brave elbow]

Dm me

[spiral jungle]

Why

[brave elbow]

Donate me

So I can send pass

Id

[spiral jungle]

You can just do it here

[brave elbow]

Ok

How muxh will you dono

[spiral jungle]

1

[brave elbow]

Bro what ok if you don't want to do say no

😭

[brave elbow]

😭😭

[brave elbow]

If you want to can you dono 1k for my game

Robux

[spiral jungle]

1 Robux

[brave elbow]

Bro pls

[spiral jungle]

I’ll give you 1 Robux

[queen wadi]

I can also spare 1 robux sir

[coral prawn]

Velocity now gets decreased upon penetration/ricochet.

[hallow crag]

i can send 1 robux aswell

[faint monolith]

thats fire

did u use math to calculate trajectory or just a continuous application of force in some direction?

[coral prawn]

FastCast and some math.

[spiral jungle]

There’s a formula on the forum

You can do it with beams

To show the trajectory

[edgy ore]

in #1278154978598326406 ?!

[lean ocean]

Fatcast

[spiral jungle]

Dev forum

[spiral jungle]

Fatcat

[coral prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/fat-cat-gif-12535219569916731430

[edgy ore]

ikr

[full gazelle]

sure it is just day 1 of making it i was gonna make the framework first

[dry sparrow]

github is the best thing in terms of organization

by all means

[ruby cipher]

guys is it worth it to learn go

[graceful oxide]

It's so obvious, it shouldnt even be brought up

[quaint pine]

    workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

    -- Smooth camera transitions
    for i = 1, #CamFrame do
        local frame = CamFrame[i]
        local Pos = frame.Value.Position
        local xRot, yRot, zRot = frame.Value:ToOrientation()
        local targetCF = CFrame.new(Pos) * CFrame.Angles(xRot, yRot, zRot)

        -- Create tween info (duration, easing style, easing direction)
        local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
            1/40, -- Duration per frame (adjust for smoother/faster transitions)
            Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, -- Smooth easing style
            Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, -- Smooth in and out
            0, -- Repeat count
            false, -- Reverse
            0 -- Delay
        )

        -- Create and play tween
        local cameraTween = TweenService:Create(
            workspace.CurrentCamera,
            tweenInfo,
            {CFrame = targetCF}
        )

        cameraTween:Play()

        -- Wait for tween to complete before moving to next frame
        if i < #CamFrame then -- Don't wait after the last frame
            cameraTween.Completed:Wait()
        end
    end

    -- Optional: Reset camera after cutscene
     workspace.CurrentCamera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom ```

[quaint pine]

why is the cutscene so glitchy and buggy like the frames are twisting and all

[spiral jungle]

Bind camera effects to render stepped instead of loops or anything else

Cause the camera gets updated every frame

[quaint pine]

oo

[quaint pine]

why 😭

[spiral jungle]

Cause it needs to be?

[quaint pine]

but i set it cameratype to scriptable : (

[spiral jungle]

If it were only updated 60/s it would be stutters on computers running at 240/s

[quaint pine]

oo

mine is 180 hrtz

[spiral jungle]

Your tween info is using sine

[quaint pine]

so should the cutscene work perfectly on 60 fps?

or 60 hrtz

[spiral jungle]

No cause it’s in sine

It’s doing a sine curve for the camera every tween

And you’re tweening like 40 times a second

If you switched to linear maybe it’ll be smoother

[quaint pine]

ya cuz i made 40 fps animation

also it works almost perfect if i change mty fps o 60

[mild dust]

Bad

[quaint pine]

hmm

[spiral jungle]

Animation gets set to whatever your frame rate is anyways unless you have key frames each 1/40th of a second

[quaint pine]

also idk how that all works

[quaint pine]

can u give me the script : ( ik this might not be possibl

[spiral jungle]

I’m on mobile

Just change the tween info from sine to linear

[quaint pine]

it still sshutters

[summer plume]

IS FUEL TIME

[polar badge]

Anyone here willing to write some script for free?

dm

[timber parcel]

Hi,Anyone here is development manager??

[spiral jungle]

Yes because your tweens are tied to 40 FPS

Tie it to the render stepped

Or just use one long tween

[jovial falcon]

i dmed

[slender yew]

I'm thinking of a way to manage player unlockable assets in my game, and this seems like a good way, for unlocked cars there will be children of that instance with a car name to later on check for it through the player data and grant them the item if they own it.

what do u think

[static coral]

just put it in a dictionary its more optimised & more organised for example:

local TEMPLATE = {
  CarSkins = {
    SkinName = {
      Unlocked = true,
      Selected = true,
    },
  },
}

[slender yew]

that's a better idea, though I need to manage it for each player and I'm not sure how I'd be able to modify unlocked/selected for each player locally

[static coral]

have a registry that contains players as keys and their data as values

and to have it locally u can fire it to player

whenever it changes

u can also use unreliable remotes

[steep light]

Yo scripters

[slender yew]

so like a datastore ig?

I was thinking profileservice

[static coral]

no

just a table

[copper apex]

Yes data store if u wanna store players unlocked items

[static coral]

like this

local Registry = {}

function AddPlayer(player: Player)
  Registry[player] = CopyOfDataTemplate
end

[slender yew]

I've never made a registry though, so I'm kind of clueless where to even start

[static coral]

its just a table

[copper apex]

A registry registers and unregisters

[slender yew]

alright this made it a lot more clear

I'll create a module responsible for registering players

The part that`s unclear to me is how exactly to use it other than that

[static coral]

wdym

[copper apex]

So when players join the game u need to get the stored data

[static coral]

yeah

[copper apex]

If they dont have one stored

[slender yew]

oh yeah so they go hand in hand

[copper apex]

Table.clone the template

When players leave save the data

[slender yew]

so I'd store the player registry in my data storage

[copper apex]

You need to use a data store

[slender yew]

and then retrieve and use it anytime they try to modify their data

[copper apex]

Yes

[static coral]

get player data -> if no data, set to template -> put data into registry
player leaves -> remove them from it

[slender yew]

yessir, thank you for the explanation

[static coral]

this is shallow copy only tho

so nested tables will point to original ones in template

you need to copy all elements for each player

[slender yew]

Time to go learn profile service then I guess

[static coral]

(deep copy)

[slender yew]

psure profileservice has that

along other very useful features

[static coral]

i wouldnt know i dont use it

[slender yew]

I have been putting off actually learning it

[static coral]

looks like bloat to me

[slender yew]

What do you use?

[somber vault]

Guys how do I find textures?
for effects

[static coral]

my own data system

[static coral]

make them or search toolbox or search websites or pay someone

[slender yew]

it has session locking

[slender yew]

how long did it take u to make it?

[copper apex]

Yes make a func

that copies it

[static coral]

i dont have my own specific module im just currently making one for each project but im gonna make my own complete system very soon

[copper apex]

https://gyazo.com/6bd2bf4d1e068c61e519662ae7079998
This is my database, my session module acts as a registry

This is just pretty much most you have to do

I dont have lots of error catching here or fallbacks but you get the idea you can implement them yourself later

[slender yew]

to save and load player data?

[copper apex]

Yes

[slender yew]

does no one here use profileservice

[copper apex]

You dont need profile service

Datastore works just fine

But once again it depends what youre trying to do

I dont know alot of about profile service though

[copper apex]

If you wanna use it you can use it

I am not stopping you lol

[slender yew]

Yeah I know, I'm just wondering what should I research first into: making my own datastore or profileservice

[copper apex]

Youre overthinking it

[grave cloud]

just use raw datastores

[copper apex]

Make it work first then make it better later

[grave cloud]

it isnt that deep

[slender yew]

you're right

[static coral]

just make your own its good for learning

[slender yew]

aight thank you all for help

[livid ridge]

yo anyone here?

I need help with a code

[static coral]

dont ask to ask just ask

[somber vault]

Anyone know how to help me please? I am trying to make a script where the particals face the direstion they are moving

[static coral]

https://tenor.com/view/stfu-shut-up-stop-shut-your-mouth-shut-it-down-gif-20324546

[somber vault]

idc i wont

[static coral]

https://tenor.com/view/ltg-low-tier-god-lowtiergod-ltgstare-lowtiergod-stare-gif-10285104637921288731

[copper apex]

"Rotation"

[somber vault]

Anyone know how to help me please? I am trying to make a script where the particals face the direstion they are moving

[young rock]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138164798652166264/1347116101019897906/1000048589.gif

[cunning harness]

anyone willing to make a grow a garden-like scripts for 10k robux ?

[static coral]

https://tenor.com/view/rule-rule-765-765-dbz-dragon-ball-gif-11264811342316871371

[slender yew]

so I just found out you CANNOT locally change a starter character lmao

I used your method tho

[hallow crag]

yeah u can only change before the game

[rapid panther]

https://gyazo.com/53f3fc2620d4dcad09cb8d32869cf700?token=465b957f52ae1ff1a8c4b99d17d67a19

how can I improve this, I did not make the effects for it, all i have done is add a delay to when the particles show and used the emit method for the particles, im not sure what way I can improve it in terms of where the particles should be played and I think what i have made isnt great

[hallow crag]

nice

so u dont need to run it in a postsimulation loop?

[slender yew]

you can change it during runtime but you cannot do it locally lmao

[hallow crag]

yeah ofc lol

[slender yew]

nope

[hallow crag]

characters have to replicate

[slender yew]

Idk why I thought you can lmao

[slender yew]

So do you have custom animations that you force on each one of your characters or do you js use the default animate script

[hallow crag]

default

[slender yew]

In my case I try to do that as well, but the character's limbs are just frozen, I use its movement but theres no anims, I placed the animate script in the model but it still does not work

[hallow crag]

try making the animate script a serverscript with run context set to client

[slender yew]

wtf

I just found out runcontext is a thing

what.

[hallow crag]

lol

took me a while to find out about it aswell

its rlly useful for running localscripts in workspace

[slender yew]

yeah it automatically replicates it

[static coral]

scripts in workspace in 2025 💔

[slender yew]

I guess it works it's just a bit buggy

[hallow crag]

yeah i dont run scripts in workspace its just useful if u want to have npcs with the animate script or new characters

[hallow crag]

how is it buggy?

[slender yew]

The movement is delayed whilst starting/ending

[hallow crag]

also make sure the new character is the same body type

as ur one

[slender yew]

yeah I did

lemme try again tho

[hallow crag]

hmm make sure all the body part settings in the new character match the old

might be a mass issue

u could also try instead of switching characters just setting the new characters humanoid description to ur old one

sometimes it doesnt work tho

[somber vault]

Anyone know why this script is not randomizing the X, Z axis?

local part = script.Parent
local proxy = script.Parent.Attachment.ProximityPrompt
local partical = script.Parent.Attachment.ParticleEmitter
local tweenservice = game:GetService("TweenService")

proxy.Triggered:Connect(function()
    part.Anchored = true
    local goal = {}
    goal.Position = Vector3.new(math.random(-5,5),100,math.random(-5,5))
    local tweeninfo = TweenInfo.new(1.5)
    local tween = tweenservice:Create(part, tweeninfo, goal)
    tween:Play()
    task.wait(1)
    part.Transparency = 1
    partical.Enabled = true
    task.wait(0.75)
    partical.Enabled = false
    task.wait(math.random(2,3))
    part.Position = Vector3.new(2, 0.5, -27.5)
    part.Transparency = 0
end)

[slender yew]

well I change the length of the limbs, but if I put it in startercharacter everything works fine

I'm only encountering this issue whilst changing plr model through script

[hallow crag]

probably a issue with it being a serverscript

[slender yew]

oh yeah lmao

context change didnt save

ty

[hallow crag]

oh lol

np

[thick sail]

Unfortunately that's pretty impossible because we're talking about a GLOBAL leaderboard... That's potentially hundreds of thousands of user ids

[silver verge]

its per server

[thick sail]

Yeah it's more than plausible, I just wanna make it efficient

[silver verge]

cache is per server, update from that cache every x minutes

[thick sail]

Yeah but it tracks the best player in the game, not the server

Yeah but how can I implement the cache

[silver verge]

ordereddatastores are global, your cache is per server

[thick sail]

In other words

How do I use that cache to my advantage

That's my question

Do I check entries one to one?

[silver verge]

:SetUserValue(userid, value)
if value is better than cached or doesnt exist:
cache[userid] = value

every x minutes loop over cache, set value of userid to the cached value

clear from cache if it was a success

[static coral]

get the 100 players and then check each player's value on the current server and if their value allows them to be in the top 100 then update async, it will reduce api calls a ton

[thick sail]

What if a new player enters the top 100

[silver verge]

ordereddatastore handles it

[fluid vale]

What are you on

[silver verge]

update visually

in the loop

[thick sail]

That's the issue

Imagine a new player goes to the 1st position

[silver verge]

what is

yeah

[thick sail]

Then everyone below that player is shifted down

Completely throws off the cache

[static coral]

@thick sail

[silver verge]

gng you dont cache spots

you cache the values you need to set

and use ordereddatastores to read it

[thick sail]

Yeah that's genius ngl

[thick sail]

So I gotta keep track of the lowest score in the top 100?

[silver verge]

yo

[static coral]

yeah so basically only do api call IF the current player in loop's value allows them a place in the top 100

[silver verge]

youre usig one update per every x minutes

you dont need to worry ab the lb

[static coral]

set value, and then once out of loop, display/replicate/whatever

[silver verge]

doesnt think ahead for showing a specific players value but yea its fine if you really care

ab calls

[thick sail]

Makes perfect sense

[static coral]

every X amount of time you can just get a cache by getting the data of the top 100 players and then compare it to the players in the current's servers data

[thick sail]

True, I wanna be really optimal though lol

[silver verge]

then yeah dont update it if the player wouldnt be top 100

its gonna b slightly off if players get banned, etc

i wouldnt

[static coral]

ye ts what im saying

[silver verge]

useless really but its fine

[thick sail]

How do I compare them, that's my dilemma

Start from the 1st position and update downwards?

[silver verge]

if value >/< lb[100]

[fluid vale]

The fuck is this

[thick sail]

The leaderboard data is replicated to the client to visualise it

[silver verge]

yeah send all the spots

[proven depot]

why its not finding a path
i set the cost of the white parts to 0 and uh the red part math.huge

[static coral]

get a table of their values from :GetCurrentPage and then make function that checks whether the current player's value is greater than a value in the table

[thick sail]

Fair

[thick sail]

Got it

Just check active players

The advantage of starting at rank 1 and working downwards

Is that imagine the first 50 spots haven't changed at all

Then I don't have to replicate all that data to the client again

[static coral]

uhhh i think it might be better to start from 100th player

[thick sail]

The opposite is true for replication

[silver verge]

you'd just send the spot and its index

[thick sail]

Cause if the first ranks match we know no one's above them

[static coral]

because they have lower amount of data which makes it so that they are likely to be overtaken, it will also be faster because u can break loop if the current player in the loop's value is greater than a value in the top 100

[silver verge]

and new entries only

[silver verge]

just send changed indexes

you can push everything below on the client

[thick sail]

If player #1 has increased his score by 1 there's no way to know other than by going all the way through

For replication top to bottom makes a lot more sense

[fluid vale]

IPairs? Idk

[silver verge]

no order needed

you just send only the new spots

[thick sail]

Argh fair

[silver verge]

and the client moves shit below them

if some dude gets 23rd and some gets 90

you send those two entries with their new spot

[static coral]

you can send the table with the players' data to client

[silver verge]

client moves the ones below starting from 1

[thick sail]

What would be SUPER cool

Would be somehow detecting if just one new player has entered the leaderboard for example

And then somehow just telling the client to shift everything else

But that's too insane lol

[silver verge]

thats what i js said gang

its not

[thick sail]

This is why I've been struggling with it cause my ideas are crazy

[silver verge]

table.insert does that already

just work from 1 to 100

then chop off anything after that

5 new entries? go from smallest to largest

[thick sail]

But what if TWO spots change

It gets messy

[silver verge]

no it doesnt

[thick sail]

It just gets too crazy I think

[silver verge]

start from the smaller ones?

then chop everything off

[thick sail]

Wdym chop everything off

[silver verge]

after 100

have the entries in an array

on the client

[thick sail]

I'm only doing 1-100 anyway

[silver verge]

send new entries

[silver verge]

yo when you table.insert

its gonna be more than 100

on the client

[thick sail]

Alright yeah

[silver verge]

so you chop them off after

[thick sail]

Ok that works fair fair

Damn that's cool

Alright I'll do that good stuff

Thank you very much for the help

[silver verge]

ofc

[hot wraith]

Astral V2 (Rework + SFX NEW ALL ME)

[static coral]

my brain feel good listening to this

[hot wraith]

[polar badge]

Is there anyone here willing to work for free to improve their skills

[static coral]

this is a hiring server not a slave auction

[polar badge]

I’m just looking for a friend who can help me with scripting. 😔

I was planning to share profits from the game, but since that didn’t seem appealing to most people, I’m now just looking for someone who’s willing to help for free — maybe just to gain experience or for fun

[static coral]

no

[polar badge]

[somber vault]

We still make less than minumum wage

[static coral]

lock in 🥶 💯🔥

get on that grindset sigma

u gotta escape the matrix

💯

[somber vault]

Gang I know for a fact you didnt make enough to get taxed last year

[static coral]

im a minor they aint taxing me

[somber vault]

If you earn an income, yes

If you bought anything ever, yes

If you exist you pay taxes

[static coral]

oh right shi i forgot about value added tax

[thick sail]

Why'd you call me out this badly

I'm not even gonna make enough this year to pay income tax and I'm working full time 💀 my country is shit

[somber vault]

Eastern europe or asia?

[thick sail]

Western Europe lol

[somber vault]

Bruh

Late stage capitalism moment

[thick sail]

Yeah, it only gets worse

I'm genuinely so zoned out

[static coral]

bro what how is income tax more than ur income

[thick sail]

I fucking hate our generation

[somber vault]

Nah, it collapses and restarts

[thick sail]

I'm earning close to minimum wage

Tbf I cheated a bit

If I worked for the full year I'd have to declare a small bit

But I'm only gonna work until September

[thick sail]

Can we please collapse it right now

[somber vault]

Just dont work and get payed unemployment

[thick sail]

The one thing we need to destroy is capitalism

I hate growth

[static coral]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-work-citizen-gif-27615137

[somber vault]

Nah capitalism is good, bad laws and leaders are bas

[thick sail]

We don't NEED the latest supercomputer

Or the craziest gizmos

The sooner we learn that the better

Otherwise we're doomed, genuinely

[somber vault]

We gotta elect right people and actually pay attention when they do shit or steal from the country

[thick sail]

All we need is good healthcare, food & shelter for everyone and encourage more human expression

[somber vault]

American congress funneling cash in their pockets as the war and military spending

[thick sail]

Cause we're losing it

AI is destroying our sense of self

[thick sail]

We're way beyond that now

[somber vault]

Not really

[thick sail]

Genuinely don't see a way out

Bernie Sanders could be elected for all I care

Nothing would change

[thick sail]

I know people who have studied creative arts (like visual design, infographics, painting, etc.) They're completely out of work

There's already studies showing that a significant percentage of popular music already uses AI

[dire comet]

Hi there, I'm wondering what to do when completely new players, without any data stored, join? Will it cause any problems that my data loading always takes at a minimum 10 seconds for new players, since they have no data loaded? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

[thick sail]

AI footage is becoming so realistic we're approaching the point where no news footage will be believable

The list goes on and on

This is the worst timeline

[dark juniper]

are U using a data store module

[dire comet]

Do you know of the game blocks tales? Their new trailer apparently used ai generated music.

[thick sail]

I wanna make absolute BANK off of Roblox and live off grid

[dire comet]

Data store module... Not sure what that is. I'm using a data store thingy.

[thick sail]

That's mental wtf

[dark juniper]

become so good at scripting u can write code at light speed

[thick sail]

Look at Drake or Ye, both have used AI

[dire comet]

Well the ones who had made it got fired afterwards.

[dark juniper]

then work 18 hours a day

[dire comet]

They have?

[dark juniper]

and make an innovative idea

[thick sail]

😭

[dark juniper]

and u can get there

?

[thick sail]

At this point you can't prove a track was made with AI

[dark juniper]

u want lots of content for your players right

[thick sail]

You've all seen Google's latest Ai version right

It's just scary

[dire comet]

Yep, veo 3?

[thick sail]

Can't describe it in a different way

[dark juniper]

ai is unsustainable

it uses way too much power

once the hype and funding dies down itll go up in cost

[thick sail]

Yeah

[dark juniper]

100%

[dire comet]

That is true, until we get fusion plants up and going.

[thick sail]

@dark juniper in my region our government is building three massive data centres right next to my village

And insane plots of solar panels

It's disgusting

They're LITERALLY buying into AI

[dire comet]

There's lots of money in it.

[dark juniper]

makes money

why wouldnt they

[thick sail]

Exactly, makes money

[hollow thicket]

is it an effective way by viewing the script that generated by ai and type the script urself when thinking how it works

[dark juniper]

isnt that what ur trying to do

[thick sail]

The hype will not die

[dire comet]

no.

Script yourself, or I recommend doing so most of the time, atleast.

[thick sail]

Why would the hype for AI ever die

[dark juniper]

because its gonna become normalized?

[hollow thicket]

when i scripting with ai i would think how it work tho

[dark juniper]

and its not becoming a singularity either

[thick sail]

So it's gonna be the minimum standard

Is what you're saying

[hollow thicket]

but thats some bad news

[thick sail]

So it's never going away

[hollow thicket]

if without ai

i literally have 0 idea

[thick sail]

Your logic doesn't work

[dark juniper]

yea thats smart but make sure u try to understand every line it types

[hollow thicket]

i may know how it work to me

but

[thick sail]

All the ridiculous infrastructure is here to stay

[dark juniper]

ur whole goal is to learn from it

[hollow thicket]

yk i have no idea about it

[dark juniper]

not use it as your crutch

[dark juniper]

no what im saying is

u think its gonna keep releasing groundbreaking new updates

and keep its hype

but its genuinely just plateuing

and people are less suprised by it

[dire comet]

That is true.

[dark juniper]

since its becoming normalized in society

all it takes is some new thing

like quantum computing

or whatever

and then ggs to ai funding

still gonna exist

but gonna be downsized

anyways

[thick sail]

Footage WILL become impossible to differentiate from AI videos

[dark juniper]

id stop wasting my time typing and dooming

u wanna live off the grid right?

well im your competition

[thick sail]

These problems are impossible to get rid of

Not if I off my grid first

[dark juniper]

I go to school, work at a lab, and I code roblox thats all I do all day

Im usually coding for 12 hours a day some days

if u cant keep up with me im gonna beat u

[thick sail]

Lucky bastard

I dont have the time for that

[dark juniper]

so u better start coding bud

[thick sail]

I work full time

[dark juniper]

im faster than u smarter than u

and Im gonna be successful

[thick sail]

I'm almost done with my game

[dark juniper]

and live the off grid life

[thick sail]

💀

[dark juniper]

that you want

[thick sail]

I'm way ahead of you bro

[dark juniper]

no your not

[thick sail]

You're*

[dark juniper]

💀

[thick sail]

Clearly smarter too

[dark juniper]

nah id beat u bud

[thick sail]

Yeah yeah less saying more doing

I'm almost done with my game and about to make bank

[tribal venture]

can you use tween animations for buttons in UiGridLayout?

[dark juniper]

whats the game

[thick sail]

Collabing with a rich ass dev

NDA until it's released

[dark juniper]

bro gatekeeping

[dire comet]

No details allowed?

[dark juniper]

cant u like hint anything

[thick sail]

NDA bruh

No I can't

[dark juniper]

yea i dont think ur game exists then

[thick sail]

But it's close to done

Believe whatever you want

[dark juniper]

whos the dev your working with

[thick sail]

Phini

[dark juniper]

roblox name?

[thick sail]

Phini lol

Bro's actually serious about chatting shit 💀

[dire comet]

Is your full time job the roblox game?

[dark juniper]

oh this guy made wolf tales

500k visits

[thick sail]

No duh

[dark juniper]

he also made fox tales

[thick sail]

I work at a factory

[dark juniper]

7 mil visits

hm ok

[dire comet]

How should I have known? Doesn't it take ages to develop such a game, then?

[thick sail]

I'm a mechanical engineer

[dark juniper]

yea hes pretty good

im guessing your gonna be making a furry game then

[thick sail]

My own shit game has 3.7 M visits

No it's completely different

[dark juniper]

since this guy makes a couple of those

[thick sail]

I hate furry games

It's a fighting game

[dark juniper]

well thats all of his games though

this guy only gets 50 active on his games

[thick sail]

I know he really lost steam

That's why we're making this

[dark juniper]

i hate to break it to you but like this guy doesnt look like he does fighting games

[thick sail]

I do you dummy

I'm the scripter

[dark juniper]

then waht does he do

[thick sail]

Front end + visuals

We commed the builder

Also got a modeller

[dark juniper]

do u own the game

[thick sail]

50/50 split

[dark juniper]

ok so then why are u bound by NDA

if ur splitting

arent u the owner

[thick sail]

Cause we bound each other

I'm not telling anyone what the game is

Out of my own personal choice

[static coral]

sounds intimate

[thick sail]

I've made a ton of useful modules for this

So the plan is to quickly release another project after in way less time

Genius plan 🗣️

[thick sail]

We do get intimate indeed

[dark juniper]

shouldnt u stick to ur current project

why go for another one after

[thick sail]

For updates yeah

Cause a game isn't guaranteed to be successful

Every game is a risk

[dark juniper]

its only a risk if its not fun

[thick sail]

We can see how it goes but if we have the time it's better to make another one meanwhile

It is fun

[dark juniper]

whats the game mechanics then

[thick sail]

But there's plenty of brilliant games that have not been as successful as they should

Luck is definitely a factor

[dark juniper]

nah ur game just isnt fun

if u don't make it

[thick sail]

Not telling you bigman

[dark juniper]

can you atleast tell me what buttons u press in it

[thick sail]

Completely wrong but sure

I've played plenty of games I think are amazing and never got attention

And the other way around

Absolutely shite games riddled with players

Brookhaven

Objectively badly made in every aspect (when I first played it)

[dark juniper]

thats your opinion though

if they got more players they are objectively more fun

[thick sail]

The visuals being outdated, the animations being low effort and the buildings free modelled and there being NOTHING to do isn't an opinion

That's a terrible metric but sure

Session time and players returning is a much better metric

[dark juniper]

have u advertised your game

or had a test

[thick sail]

Not yet

We're in the testing phase rn

Using my army of goons to test

[dark juniper]

yea honestly U kinda seem like a noob talking to u

being fr

im gonna go back to coding

[thick sail]

Huh

[dark juniper]

solo deving hits hard

[thick sail]

Sounds grand

Good luck with the solo devving

[mint cloud]

What is Blud yapping about

[dark juniper]

some guy can tell me grow a gardenn isnt fun

but I can get a majority of people to play it

and they will enjoy it

same goes for kids aswell

i can get kids to play brookhaven and some other game

and they will like brookhaven more

[static coral]

more players ~= more fun

only applies to social hangouts maybe

[dark juniper]

look all im saying is if ur game got the players its doing something right

and u should take notes

[static coral]

vro u can make anything go viral on roblox 💔

90% of playerbase is stupid little kids

[dark juniper]

have u done it yet

[static coral]

working on it

have u?

[dark juniper]

nope

but im gonna do it first

before U

im gonna make an actual fun game

[static coral]

challenge accepted

[dark juniper]

that anyone can enjoy

[static coral]

im preoccupied with a commission so u got a head start

[dark juniper]

im already way ahead of you actually

im in the testing phase

experimenting with retention

[static coral]

im almost at testing phase i just need to finish up last ui shit and then change server side a little

[dark juniper]

ok then

[white nova]

how do i make a hold input thing like if i hold down m1 it keeps returning m1 m1 m1 m1 for how longi hold it

[weak radish]

Skilled people take notes from opinions others get annoyed

[weak radish]

Make a connection where it prints M1 on input and break it when inputended

with runservice

or you could do a while loop on inputbegan held == true (while held)
and on inputended held = false

with task.spawn()

first is nicer tho

[patent mirage]

@static coral @dark juniper I´m ready to see who wins.

[tiny obsidian]

laugh my ass out

u fucking piece of shit

0 knowledge in that little ass brain

make a viral game then hit my dms

I will be waiting

[silver verge]

not how it works

[static coral]

u can quite literally make anything go viral

js look at front page

if skibidi toilet tower defense and milkshake obby can be successful then anyone can

[static coral]

we are talking about roblox

[static coral]

and the projecting is crazy

[static coral]

and if i do you are the last person i will be thinking about so u gonna be waiting for a long time🤣🤣🤣

[proper edge]

Who made the ui

[whole nimbus]

yo does anyone know if a discord bot that advertises 3rd party services is allowed on discord?

[silver verge]

good monetization and easy core gameplay loop

can't js make anything get players

[white nova]

cart ride into 17 pregnant hyenas:

[silver verge]

that's why "good" games don't get pushed in the algo

[silver verge]

yeah got ccu because of how stupid it was

• tiktok method

[proper edge]

Tbh I’d rather have a popular game for being good

[white nova]

tiktok method lowkey patched

[silver verge]

not really

[white nova]

low key

[proper edge]

Than have a popular game that’s known for being made fun of

[silver verge]

grow a garden got ccu off it

[proper edge]

Not rlly

[white nova]

ohh u mean fanbase making the tiktoks not the devs

[proper edge]

It was popular before it hit TikTok

[silver verge]

yeah no shit

💔

[ancient halo]

Dude how does table.fidn work?

[white nova]

calm down i got a different perspective

[silver verge]

read docs

[white nova]

it checks if a table has a something in it and if it does it returns true else nil

[silver verge]

it returns the index

[white nova]

what...

[silver verge]

given an array and a value

[white nova]

oh....

[ancient halo]

I;m trying to do that

[silver verge]

show the code

[ancient halo]

I made a tableusing table.insert

ok

heres the first bit of code:

-- Make the hotbar slots 
    for slotNum = 1, MetaData.MaxHotBarSpace do
        local newSlot = HotbarSlotSample:Clone()
        newSlot.Name = "Slot".. slotNum
        newSlot.LayoutOrder = slotNum
        newSlot.Visible = true
        newSlot.Parent = HotbarFrame

        -- puts all the created slot into a table
        table.insert(hotbarSlots, newSlot)

        -- sets up the key to every slot made
        keyToSlots[GiveKeyFromNumber(slotNum)] = newSlot.Name
    end

I put the buttons in a table

heres the second bit:

for key: Enum.KeyCode, slotFrame: ImageButton in keyToSlots do
        if Input.KeyCode == key then
            --TODO: equip item
            
            print(table.find(hotbarSlots, slotFrame))
            --hotbar.toggleHeldItem()
            break
        end
    end

[silver verge]

what is givekeyfromnumber

[ancient halo]

it's for a hot bar system

[silver verge]

yea show it

[ancient halo]

to give me the ENum.KeyCodes

[silver verge]

then use that

instead of table.find

[hallow crag]

dont break and see if it works

[simple sage]

Hi who is a scripter

[ancient halo]

It's not the cod ethats not working

[simple sage]

I have a thing

[ancient halo]

the "table.find" keep giving me nil

[hallow crag]

what then

[silver verge]

print the table and show a screenshot

[hallow crag]

send ss of error

[simple sage]

Pls

[ancient halo]

no error

[simple sage]

Who is a scripter here

[hallow crag]

if its returning nil then that frame isnt in the table

at all

[silver verge]

print the table and show

also you don't need to loop over keyToSlots

js do keyToSlots[key]

[ancient halo]

hold on

First is the table, second is the table .find

[silver verge]

print slotframe

[ancient halo]

ok

[hallow crag]

its cause ur doing newSlot.Name

not newSlot

[ancient halo]

for which one?

[silver verge]

thats keytoslots

[ancient halo]

yea

[hallow crag]

no like u wont find the slotFrame cause slotFrame is a string not a frame

[silver verge]

no its not

[hallow crag]

bro

read the code

[silver verge]

read the code

[hollow meadow]

hello, can any1 help?

i wanna get the children of a model and set an if statement for all of them except children w the name "HumanoidRootPart" but im lost

[silver verge]

youre fried

hes using hotbarslots

in table.find

[hallow crag]

omd

[ancient halo]

heres the print stammetns:

[hallow crag]

r u dumb

[silver verge]

r u ed

[hallow crag]

nah ur actually slow

[silver verge]

w bait bro

[ancient halo]

oh wait

it was the name usage

[hallow crag]

hes inserting newSlot but setting the index to newSlot.Name

yeah i was right

[ancient halo]

thanks

[hallow crag]

@silver verge is a dumbass

skid

[ancient halo]

wait

[silver verge]

??

where bro

[ancient halo]

I got it, becuase I was looking IN the keytoslots, the stuff wasn't linging up

[silver verge]

table.insert(hotbarSlots, newSlot)

[hallow crag]

r u blind 😭

[silver verge]

YO

AND WHAT IS HE USING FIND ON?

🤔🤔🤔

[hallow crag]

slotFrame is a string not a instance

[ancient halo]

im using a for loop

[silver verge]

no its not

[hallow crag]

cause hes setting the index to the name

[hallow crag]

this guy is slow asf

[neon compass]

yeah he is lol

[silver verge]

?

keytoslots is unrelated

you dumb piece of shit 😭

[hallow crag]

hes for looping through the keytoslots

dumbass

[dire comet]

Okay, okay everyone let's keep the good tone here.

[ancient halo]

I was using "keyToSlots" to give me inputs AND to get the "slotFrame". which means all of the slotFrames were strings

[neon compass]

LMAO

[silver verge]

this fucking code is cooked regardless

[dire comet]

No reason to start shitting on each other.