code-discussion

[compact wing]

and he was holding the ak like an lmg >sob

[crude quarry]

you dont do that?

[compact wing]

actually hol up a lmg would be a fire idea tbh

[compact wing]

no i broke his hands

[crude quarry]

L

[compact wing]

in the game when you break parts they become limb

*limp

[dry bramble]

ill pay someone to script

[crude quarry]

pay yourself and learn scripting

[crude quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-touch-grass-alphabet-soup-meme-gif-25868068

[dry bramble]

ill pay someone

[crude quarry]

print("Noob")```
Now where's my $50

[dry bramble]

how much robux is 50

[crude quarry]

[dry bramble]

ill pay 50

[crude quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/tim-and-sid-tim-and-friends-sid-seixeiro-sid-seixeiro-gif-7648021494333771074

[dry bramble]

i will

[naive kiln]

-Blaster and S lightaber Systems
-Modifying current scripts
Scripting our morph GUI, tied to a roblox groups and ranks
-Scripting UI interfaces
-AI systems
-Air vehicle system

First wanted one for all, then split up the tasks, most just got started on then they bailed

[compact wing]

😭 You need to higher competent dudes LOL

*Hire

[dry bramble]

i have 50k roux pls help me i pay

[lost yoke]

the ai and vehicle system sound like the only compex things

perhaps if u remove those from the commission list youll have a much easier time

[crude quarry]

bro just be paying thousands for those tasks cuz aint no 1 person doing all that for nothing

[dry bramble]

you can do one thing for me

[crude quarry]

You should look into #scripter-hirable

[fossil echo]

😭

I got a question for yall how did you guys learn scripting? Like tutorials just messing with scripts?

[crude quarry]

learn the basics with tutorials then mess around with random projects

[fossil echo]

Wym by projects

Like models in the toolbox

[crude quarry]

no make stuff

[fossil echo]

Ahh Alr

You use the dev form much?

I’ve heard it’s pretty good for learning stuff

[crude quarry]

all the time when I need to find something I dont understand

Or a random question

[somber vault]

Whos an advanced coder here

[fossil echo]

Yeah I’m now just starting to do that

I’m not trying to get stuck in tutorial hell

And I’m trying to use my own brain

With help from ai once in a while

[dry bramble]

ai helps alot since i dont have to wait 3 years jsut to make a game 🥀

[crude quarry]

using AI at all is a bad habbit

[fossil echo]

Really?

Just for understanding the code

From like the toolbox?

[crude quarry]

toolbox is also pretty bad

They use code that doesnt make sense half the time and you can remake for your game with half the lines

[fossil echo]

Where would you go to examine scripts and stuff then?

[crude quarry]

type the question in google and you can usually find the same question asked in the forms

[fossil echo]

Ahh alright

I’ll try that

[crude quarry]

like using reddit and stackoverflow with other coding

[fossil echo]

Also what if the question doesn’t pop up

Then what?

[crude quarry]

what question would you be asking that wouldnt pop up

you can always come here and ask for a specific question usually people will insult you for 30 minutes then provide support

[fossil echo]

Alright

I’ll do that for very specific questions

[crude quarry]

local lobby = script.Parent.Lobby:WaitForChild("TextLabel")
local lobbyframe = script.Parent.Lobby
local LT = "Hey, welcome to MFO(My first Obby). We've got a lot to introduce you too, let's save that for later."
local debounce = false

game.Workspace.FirstTrigger.Touched:Connect(function()
    lobbyframe.Visible = true
    local function typewriter(object, TextLabel)
        if debounce then return true end
            for i = 1, #TextLabel, 1 do    
                debounce = false
                object.Text = string.sub(TextLabel,1,i)
                task.wait(0.05)

            end
        end
        typewriter(lobby, LT)
    wait(15)
    lobbyframe.Visible = false
    debounce = false
end)
``` Where do I put debounce to stop it from repeating the loop?

[neon stag]

anyone do paid scripting tutorials?

[crude quarry]

free tutorials on youtube

[rare eagle]

jesus christ how do i hide this

[ember nimbus]

use TextLabel.MaxVisibleGraphemes

for typewriters

rather than string.sub

that usecase is so innately true it is documented by roblox because they know people use sub

[crude quarry]

That returns an error of nil

The way I have works fine

[lean ocean]

MaxVisibleGraphemes fixed the issue of question mark things appearing sometimes

For me

They would appear and turn instantly back into text sometimes

[crude quarry]

never had that issue

My only issue was the touch function triggering multiple times

but I got that solved

[lean ocean]

also why do you use task.wait in the for i loop but then use wait()

[crude quarry]

because I forget task.wait

[lean ocean]

Also u can write workspace. Instead of game.Workspace

[crude quarry]

most of the time I write the whole code then go back and rewrite task.wait

[spark sphinx]

Guys, what are you guys think would be a better game for me to make? I’m thinking about making a horror game, funny PVP game like slap battles, or I can remake a og game

[crude quarry]

Remaking an og game is always fun

[patent night]

What’s the difference between task.wait and wait()?

[hallow crag]

thats the same thing besides one is a global

[hallow crag]

task.wait is more accurate

[lean ocean]

less letters to type

[patent night]

Is there a situation where wait is more suitable to use than task.wait?

[hoary cedar]

No

[lean ocean]

yea when u want ur game to suck

[hallow crag]

no never use wait

[woeful dune]

task.wait will always be better

[gray mantle]

Wait() sometimes delays when it resumes the thread

So all in all task.wait is just more accurate

[patent night]

Okay thanks

Also I’m currently watching a brawldev yt video, but can someone explain what’s the point of using clone()? He used it when he was putting tools into the players backpacks

[tribal meadow]

It's used to clone an instance

[empty mulch]

If you use the original then there's only 1. You have to clone it so theres multiple

[crude quarry]

Im using a local script to trigger some text labels in starter guo but they're triggering for the whole server instead of per player. Do I have to change it to a remote?

[empty mulch]

If your activating the text labels via local script then they're only happening locally. Not on the server

Also starter gui children get moved to player.playerGui when you run the game

[hoary cedar]

Are you "triggering" the TextLabels via a BasePart.Touched event?

[hallow crag]

how do u know its replicating to the whole server

[weak radish]

is 15$/h good for a year experience + 4 past comms

[crude quarry]

I keep forgetting player gui is a thing

[empty mulch]

Probably. I'm getting paid $20 a task currently.

[weak radish]

yeah but how long do the tasks take

[hoary cedar]

What is it you're doing?

[crude quarry]

Creates a client server using 2 test players

[weak radish]

and what experience do you have

[empty mulch]

Depends on complexity. Sometimes like a half hour other times 2 hrs+ 🤷

[weak radish]

Well I was planning on just setting it as a base per hour because then I can prevent myself being underpaid which some times ends up happening

[hoary cedar]

Now, let's be real. Do you really have one year of complete and honest experience?

Because that can mean a lot

[weak radish]

Yeah

[hoary cedar]

So you were working virtually non-stop for one year?

Not just 4 commissions throughout the sporadic period of one year?

[empty mulch]

How much experience would you say I have if I script 8-12 hrs a day constantly doing new and more complex things for a couple months.

[gloomy pasture]

if i were to make a peashooter shooting animation would i animate the ball shooting out of its mouth and make it go far enough or would i script the ball coming out. (i dont code just wondering)

[weak radish]

I was working on programs for myself to help me learn new systems etc and I did 4 commissions within the last 2 months

[hoary cedar]

You should program the projectile

[hoary cedar]

What were those commissions?

[hoary cedar]

What is the most complex thing you've done so far?

[weak radish]

Uh one was a bug fix, one was building a round system, placing system and an inventory/equipping system, another was making a simple plot assigner, one was making functional UI using modules scripts to make it easily expandable and adjustable and the other was a kill prompt over players when you walk by them using remote events to update clients

[empty mulch]

It was a client side combat system that gave the info to the server and server checks everything yk. I'm not familiar with what the systems are called. ive made a some things that mightve been more complex but that's the most recent.
Oh also I've built the core for a sine wave system.
I've had plenty of OOP practice too.

[hoary cedar]

How did you engineer the round system?

[weak radish]

Wdym how?

Like did I use a lot of functions?

Did I use bindable events?

[hoary cedar]

How did you design it?

[hoary cedar]

Gerstner waves?

[empty mulch]

Sine waves im not sure if theyre considered gerstner or not

[hoary cedar]

Do you have code I can review?

[weak radish]

Well it's a while loop and triggers a start function which runs then detects for round finishing (A specific part being touched or all of the players of a specific team dying) and then it triggers the intermission function which then waits X seconds before triggering start round if there's x players. Each function also updates the client so it can show at the top "Intermission","Waiting for players" etc

[hoary cedar]

I see. So did you hard-code the game-mode?

[empty mulch]

I can't get on my PC currently but I do have a GitHub I can send you. I didn't post the sine waves core on there because I don't have access to editable meshes so I couldn't finish it

[weak radish]

I think so, I was being underpaid so I kind of rushed through it

[hoary cedar]

How might you design it to be more scalable?

[hoary cedar]

A GitHub link is fine

I just want to get a taste for how you code

That is important in its own right

[empty mulch]

I don't believe I've uploaded my most recent combat system yet. But it does have a slightly less accurate one.
https://github.com/mrkillmoe/Luau-Portfolio/tree/main

I can dm you the code to the more accurate one in an hour or so if you want. that's when I'll be able to get on my pc

[prime heron]

any ideas on how you can detect saveinstance

[hallow crag]

creating bullets on the server 💔

[empty mulch]

Hey hey. I made that like a week into coding alright 💀

I didn't say everything on there was complex or good 💀. I just havent made any more weapon systems.

[weak radish]

You just have have a module script with different functions like intermission etc and you would have a dictionary where names of different game modes had a value of a table of the order of each functions. Then the server finds the name of the game mode in the dictionary and copies the table to another and then cycles through the functions and triggering them

it depends on how the rounds are structured

[hallow crag]

also ur module loader will break if one of the modules has inf yield or errors you should load them asynchronously

[empty mulch]

My modules don't have errors. Also that was like a 5 minute thing because commissions asked for module loaders specifically for what ever reason

[hoary cedar]

It would be better to follow an interface. Each module exposes functions, but doesn't define the order they should be executed in. These functions could be as follows:

• "CheckEndCondition"
• "Start"
• "Update"
• "Cleanup"

The round system becomes a pipeline that defines how a game-mode is selected, and how the game-mode is executed through the use of its exposed functions

[hoary cedar]

If you're not already familiar, this is on the topic of polymorphism

[marsh kelp]

OOP would be a good choice for a round system right?

you would only have 3-5 methods to update the round state and privte functions for whatever the gamemode is

[hallow crag]

why tf would u need oop

[hoary cedar]

No OOP is needed here. Each game-mode is a standard table

[marsh kelp]

maybe it's a matter of style.. I found it easier to do using OOP than using normal functions

[hoary cedar]

You do not need to instantiate instances of a game-mode. If a game-mode were to be a class, it would be a singleton, in which metamethod-based method inheritence would be redudant

[weak radish]

How's that different to what I said

[hallow crag]

😭

[marsh kelp]

doing it this way allowed me to separate the the game state logic and the game modes logic

[hallow crag]

u might aswell use oop for everything at that point

[hoary cedar]

The game-mode state is naturally encapsulated in the module

[marsh kelp]

there's somethings that are easier to read in OOP

[weak radish]

return "Hello world"
statement:Print()

[hallow crag]

its called "object" orientated programming for a reason u dont just go and use it for things that dont need more then 1 instance

ur just removing the whole point of oop

[marsh kelp]

can you explain more without trying to prove if it's useless or not?
I would like to know your way of doing it

[hoary cedar]

I've found that OOP is best used as a design pattern rather than a paradigm. It's a convenient way to manage multiple instances of data with individual state, and for smaller-scale state interactions that don't require FSMs

For example, I used it to conveniently manage caller-on-caller interactions in a phone-calling system: https://github.com/Ziffixture/Roblox/blob/main/Phone/Server/Caller.lua

[marsh kelp]

Agree. some things are easier using OOP, and others using Functional Programming

[hallow crag]

just a question why do u define ur methods with a . instead of a : and pass self to the first arg

[marsh kelp]

I'm not an expert, that's why I can't know which is which without trying it first

[marsh kelp]

so you can give it its type

[hoary cedar]

self's type cannot be inferred, so it must be manually cast

[hallow crag]

oh yeah i didnt notice that

[hoary cedar]

I would've much preferred using : otherwise

[marsh kelp]

+1

[hoary cedar]

Improves readability

[atomic grove]

where did you guys learn how to code?

[marsh kelp]

but it would just add more lines to define its type

[hoary cedar]

Hence

[hoary cedar]

No one place

[atomic grove]

??

[hallow crag]

exploiting tutorials

[atomic grove]

bro

just like how

[marsh kelp]

@hallow crag don't hate OOP without a reason and don't love it without a reason

[atomic grove]

can you guys like help me

[hallow crag]

i dont hate oop u should just only use it when u need more then 1 instance of the class

[hoary cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Here is a near hour-long video essay

Its title is a bit misleading. That's quickly addressed, however

[jaunty osprey]

Is there anyone that can improve a system of mine fore free?

[solar hound]

ara ara~

[solar hound]

not fore free sorry

[jaunty osprey]

k alg

[empty mulch]

If the system isn't complex gimme 5 dolla n I'll do it

[jaunty osprey]

nty, it's not worth 5 bucks

[empty mulch]

Then figure it out instead of asking us to do it for you

[marsh kelp]

if it's misleading... then isn't this a big reason to not watch it?

[jaunty osprey]

You don't gotta do it, so im not asking you...

[viral drum]

is this good

[empty mulch]

.....your not hearing me. Learn instead of asking randoms to do it for you. Gotta get better somehow

[hoary cedar]

No

[marsh kelp]

Hmmmm

the intro is a bad sign

[hoary cedar]

It's a hook. Nothing you haven't seen before. I say it's misleading because the video does provide positive use-cases for OOP

[hoary cedar]

It's message is that OOP is good in moderation

As all things

[empty mulch]

Didn't like my portfolio huh?

[marsh kelp]

Oh, then thanks for the vid

[hoary cedar]

It's educational. You should always explore the anti-opinion of something you believe in

[elfin timber]

do yall actually need all this crazy stuff to make roblox games

[marsh kelp]

it's harder for me to understand from "only" listening, that's why I tried for a while to create the same thing twice, once using OOP and once using Functions.

and found out that OOP is the best when you want to create systems which has a lot of states ( NPCs for an example )

and normal functions are good, when the thing you're making is kinda static ( doesn't have a lot of states ) and can only explained in code

[green sparrow]

Wdym by crazy stuff

OOP?

[pine torrent]

Yup

[mystic grotto]

consider looking into ECS

there are plenty of good articles on it

[elfin timber]

i mean like really indepth stuff

[marsh kelp]

can't find a good solution/resource for it in Roblox.
but yeah I tried it in Unity and it was pretty good ( kinda similar to OOP using composition )

[green sparrow]

yeah you do, it just depends on what your making tbh

[marsh kelp]

You can make everything in many different ways.

[hoary cedar]

Mhm. When it comes to singletons though, you really don't need any of the OOP bells n' whistles

The "methods" will be apart of the class, as you need not create any instances

So will the state. You could even make the state upvalues

[mystic grotto]

JECS

[hoary cedar]

It's just a standard table

[marsh kelp]

maybe it's just because I don't like to make a module with a "init()" function that cause the whole module to fire a chain reaction. ( it's harder to visualize )

[mystic grotto]

i originally thought it was quite like composition but it has a heavy reliance on querying

[atomic grove]

how do you guys know how to script so well

[mystic grotto]

you dont need a module init function?

requiring a module automatically causes the module to run

[marsh kelp]

same thing, I'm more focused on the chain reaction which I can't control.

[hoary cedar]

Compared to you, it may seem that way, but there are many who aren't as good as you think

[elfin timber]

they probably do it for years

[atomic grove]

oh

[hoary cedar]

Execution is often what separates people

[atomic grove]

can someone teach me how to do basic code, such as gui click detect, object highlight where cursor over it, etc

[marsh kelp]

For every programmer, there's a country of hidden bugs.

[atomic grove]

oh alr

[celest cipher]

ill teach u

[elfin timber]

🛂

[celest cipher]

if i get paid🤑

[atomic grove]

bru

[mystic grotto]

chain reaction?? sounds like bad architecture

[celest cipher]

js watch thedevking tutorial

[atomic grove]

whos that

[elfin timber]

the goat

[celest cipher]

scripting youtuber

[atomic grove]

i search up thedevking?

[marsh kelp]

maybe, every person mind is different.
||( on another topic )|| some find it easier to design code on paper, and others find it easier to make flowcharts. No one is wrong, and one isn't inherently harder than the other.

@hoary cedar on this topic, do you design your code before writing it? and what do you use

[hoary cedar]

I have enough experience where the scale of what I often engineer can be designed in my head

Granted, not instantly. I will give it some fair thought. I iterate as I begin writing the code

[marsh kelp]

even with bigger scale projects?

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-face-shookt-surprised-amazed-gif-4425303

[hoary cedar]

I do believe in writing ideas down though

I'll use any tool to do that. Last time I wrote down a system design was in Trello

When it comes to diagrams n' equations, I'll use Excalidraw ❤️

[marsh kelp]

Tyyy I was looking for something to draw on

[hoary cedar]

I do all my math, physics, and chemistry work on that site

[marsh kelp]

• same I'm using any note taking app to write down what features I'm making, if the system I'm making is more complex then I'll go to Obsidian or explain each feature more, and make a small prototype

[mystic grotto]

same here; i think its kinda like learning to sight-read music. you begin needing to mark where middle-C is and using those acronyms, until you eventually know what they are in your head

[hallow crag]

i use desmos 🔥

[mystic grotto]

^ sociopath

[hoary cedar]

Only time I'll use that is when I wanna mess with equations

Doing it on a TI-84 is too slow

[hallow crag]

fair enough

[grave cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/cursed-ohio-meme-ayy-lmao-meme-kitty-gif-11740737186806017849

[hollow burrow]

wat

do you think of code before writing it?

i don't think i have done that

maybe a lil just to start but like then its all like you dont know whats gonna happen

like sometimes i rewrite it like a few times

before its good

[marsh kelp]

without doing it I'll refactor the code 5 times

[hollow burrow]

thats what i do

[marsh kelp]

Lol

[hollow burrow]

how can you know what you are going to be writign tho

[marsh kelp]

well you don't
I just get a general Idea of what features I want
if I know how to make everything
then structure it a bit so humans can read it, and where will the code start running

but most of the times I'll miss something

[lean ocean]

Humans can read it

Are you a 🤖

[woeful dune]

if you need someone to do a task for you, please use the marketplace for this, #marketplace-info

[hollow burrow]

mr @hoary cedar was talking about it like he just knew exactly how its gonna be in his head when starting it

[marsh kelp]

humans can't read spaghetti code

[jaunty osprey]

Nobody accepts them for percentage...

Like, your staff team dont

[woeful dune]

then offer real money

[jaunty osprey]

I will do what I like

[marsh kelp]

yeah, if you made everything at least once, or had a lot of experience, you'll take less time thinking about what you've already made

I mostly struggle with new concepts

[woeful dune]

👍

[marsh kelp]

that's when I just try to make a simple code that works before making everything else

a prototype function*

[hallow crag]

mods

[hollow burrow]

ye

same

but stop proposing it as you just know everythnig before you write it

@hoary cedar

do you know?

[marsh kelp]

proposing what?

[hallow crag]

i do

i think about what im gonna write

then i write it

[hollow burrow]

like you say it like you just know exactly what ios gonna happen

but really you only got the idea that you wanna accomplish and you think about what type of code yo uneed to mkae to accomplish it

[hollow burrow]

ur hand do the job no?

cant predict everything

[hallow crag]

????

[marsh kelp]

sorry If it sounded like this, but no I make a lot of mistakes even while writing it down.
but if I made a mistake I'll try to write it in a note before coding it

[marsh kelp]

you can't code without thinking mate

[hollow burrow]

why write it down

just remember it

[hallow crag]

u should know what ur gonna write but ofc theres gonna be mistakes 99% of the time

[hollow burrow]

i can

[lean ocean]

I can script on the fly

[sudden flame]

anyone wanna test my game?

[hollow burrow]

well i dont have to think consciously

[hallow crag]

no

[hollow burrow]

thats what i meant

[lean ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/ragebait-meme-jjba-gif-4322638546229085656

[hollow burrow]

like you dont really think abt it

[lean ocean]

Ye

[marsh kelp]

then either you're pretty smart, or you're making obbies

[lean ocean]

You just do it

[hollow burrow]

idk if not thinking qualifies someone as smart

hehehehehehe

[marsh kelp]

how much can you think and remember do

[hollow burrow]

i remember al the important things

[hoary cedar]

I generally know excatly how I'm going to implement something. Of course, I will encounter some unforeseen inconveniences, which are resolved by iteration

[hollow burrow]

like if i need to remmeber it it will stay

tbh i remember the biggest dogshit throughout the day like today i thought about some things that someone said casually liek a month ago

so ig something else also get remember

[marsh kelp]

@hollow burrow sorry for the question, but what's the most advanced thing you've made?

[hollow burrow]

custom dodgeball physics

custom patfinding

nothing else good

[hollow burrow]

ig its my bad then that i percieved it as you just knowing everything you want to code

[lean ocean]

#interface-hirable

[marsh kelp]

Hmmm, I don't know if that's advanced or not tbh ( I don't go near physics and heavy math stuff )

my most advanced thing was an AI NPCs using behavior trees

[hollow burrow]

idk any math

i didnt study

like i know how to use basic math

[marsh kelp]

most of us do make mistakes/bugs, even if we didn't say it

[hollow burrow]

like divide multiply

i used roblox functions for it

roblox provides alot

[lean ocean]

My most complicated was building a distributed, event-driven inverse kinematic rigging system that dynamically recalibrates limb articulation based on real-time spline interpolation of pathfinding waypoints, all while synchronizing stateful behavior trees across a coroutine-based AI architecture with predictive client-side physics ownership to minimize network desync during high-latency interpolation of humanoid joint constraints.

[hollow burrow]

and get values out of my ass

and fix them until it looks good

[marsh kelp]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1323317038697152616/1339713129822552137/zenux.gif

[lean ocean]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1172173121181208576/1354130066178834493/attachment.gif

[marsh kelp]

https://tenor.com/view/molorant-wibugus-gif-25515096

[hollow burrow]

what is stateful behavior trees and coroutine-based AI architecture

and how do you predict client-side physics ownership

high-latency interpolation

is that good

[marsh kelp]

don't mind the cat

https://tenor.com/view/cat-slap-orange-cat-slap-orange-cat-slap-bum-chonky-cat-orange-chonker-cat-gif-3305480239079074923

[lean ocean]

Behavior trees are a structured way to script AI decision-making. Think of them as a flowchart of decisions and actions.

[hollow burrow]

i didnt get what he said

[marsh kelp]

+1

[hollow burrow]

what if hes just the goat

[lean ocean]

LOLL

WHAT IS THAY

[marsh kelp]

bro... I left #code-help because of you, please don't come here too

[hollow burrow]

ye idk

[manic rover]

I thought he was a video editor 🥀

[manic rover]

I though I was in code help

[hollow burrow]

it's an ai bot

that is run by a human in real time

[woeful dune]

@manic rover stop posting that in every channel.

[hollow burrow]

like he makes a post that's attention seeking

so people start messaging him

and then he starts running his ai to reply to all the people

and when they suspect its ai he switches ai to human

[manic rover]

2 channels is fine

[grave cloud]

good boy

[woeful dune]

it was 3.

[manic rover]

No I. Meant is 2 fine

[marsh kelp]

that's actually a good theory, but it's hard to believe they can be this smart

[woeful dune]

there is no reason you should be discussing that in any of those said channels.

[hollow burrow]

I THOGUHT I WAS IN DCODE HELP

LEMME GO BACK TO MY SWAMP

[manic rover]

I’m a soccer player

[hollow burrow]

sorry people who actually try to help

[manic rover]

I have $20M a year sorry

[woeful dune]

👍

[lean ocean]

Have you never seen what happens in code help

😂

[manic rover]

Do you like chickey cheese

[woeful dune]

yea i know.

[hollow burrow]

just look what hes typing

[marsh kelp]

what about this?

[lean ocean]

I don't think code help likes mods

[manic rover]

It was motivation

For people

Devex motivation

[woeful dune]

didn’t see those

[manic rover]

Wait

[manic rover]

Wait

[manic rover]

It was motivation for devex bro

[hollow burrow]

they didn't like mods BEFORE the incident

[lean ocean]

Thanks drake you motivated me

I got 150k robux now

[manic rover]

See

[marsh kelp]

search using his account, you'll see a lot out of context pics

[manic rover]

SEE

no

[autumn falcon]

Guys what decides if my code is good Enough to get programmer role

[manic rover]

It for motivation

WAIT

LET ME EXPLAIN OK ?

SIR PLS

SAIT QAIT

BRO

I’m cooked

[hollow burrow]

BRO YOU TURN THE AI OFF JUST TO MAKE EXCUSES

[manic rover]

Bye I’m gon get muted

[hollow burrow]

TURN IT BACK ON

[marsh kelp]

you're only motivating me to close discord

[hollow burrow]

ITS SMARTER THAN U

[woeful dune]

@manic rover please just use the channels for their respective purposes , this is your 1 and only verbal warning.

[manic rover]

But

[manic rover]

I am soccr player

[lean ocean]

All cause of you

[woeful dune]

and if you get a dm from a AI bot there is 0 reason to share that anywhere.

[manic rover]

It isn’t ai

[manic rover]

Are u a girl

[manic rover]

Let’s talk to each other

https://tenor.com/view/neymar-neymar-jr-tongue-out-tongue-sticking-out-tongue-gif-27208717

[lean ocean]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1172173121181208576/1354130066178834493/attachment.gif

[manic rover]

Opa boy neymar

[manic rover]

Hey

Why aren’t you answering me?

🙁

[autumn falcon]

Hey

[deft stump]

guys how the hell do i pathfind a bunch of enemies at once

sm reason they bug out

• performance issues

[hallow crag]

BulkMoveTo + node graph + pathfinding module

[hollow burrow]

be god

[autumn falcon]

Be creative lol

Creativity and consistency gets you everywhere

[deft stump]

oh shit honestly i could do that. since im not planning to add any obstacles soo they dont need any fancy ai

[deft stump]

im REALLY new to scripting 😭

[autumn falcon]

Learn all built in functions and stuff and then start learning scripting that’s what I did

[vital sinew]

Guys how do I create a custom wave system using deformed meshes 💀

[hallow crag]

pathfinding usually isnt the first thing u should learn

[hollow burrow]

if you don't need complex pathfinding then you can just replace it with :Move

also could be caused by the humanoids themselves if you're using them, tower defense games for example replace humanoids with custom rigs to decrease lag.

or could make custom pathfinding

anything bro

[autumn falcon]

Use gerstner wave formula

[hallow crag]

editable meshes

[vital sinew]

Hmmm is this what people usually use?

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

[autumn falcon]

Yes

[vital sinew]

Alright, thanks!

[vital sinew]

Yeh I'll look into all of it. Seems like a fun project!

I was low-key hoping it wouldn't be this complicated

But ig it'll make it even more fun that it's not

Lol

But I have to use bones, right?

[autumn falcon]

Bones or editable meshes

[vital sinew]

The documentation seems like it just uses bones anyways, no?

[autumn falcon]

Idk anything about editable meshes

[vital sinew]

All good!

[crude quarry]

Adding music and some sounds kinda changes the vibe of the game

[queen kelp]

maze generator

[vital sinew]

How?

Recursive backtracking?

[queen kelp]

uhhh

[vital sinew]

Nice work, though!

[queen kelp]

script is too long to send

[vital sinew]

Lol nw

You don't know what maze generation method you used, though?

[queen kelp]

nah

lowk followed a few tut js to get the basics

[vital sinew]

You just vibe code it then or what?

[queen kelp]

ig so

[vital sinew]

Ahhh ok that makes sense

[crude quarry]

            local timer = playergui.ScreenGui.Timer.zero.Text
            playergui.ScreenGui.Timer.Visible = true
            for i = 5, 0, -1 do
                timer = i
                print(i)
                task.wait(1)
            end
        end``` Is there a reason why the timer doesnt show up as 5?

[vital sinew]

Nah vibe coding is just copy-pasting from AI, so it doesn't sound like you did that

[vital sinew]

Like 5 never gets printed or what?

[crude quarry]

just shows 0 while it prints i fine

[vital sinew]

When you do ".zero.Text" you are getting the value of the timer

Essentially you're just getting the value 0

[crude quarry]

the text label

[vital sinew]

But what you want to do is just get .zero

And then do zero.Text = i

Instead of timer = i

            local timer = playergui.ScreenGui.Timer.zero
            playergui.ScreenGui.Timer.Visible = true
            for i = 5, 0, -1 do
                timer.Text = i
                print(i)
                task.wait(1)
            end
        end

Try this

[crude quarry]

thats weird it worked

thanks

[vital sinew]

No problem!

It's because there's a difference between storing a value, and storing a reference to a value

[dusty bronze]

like in C?

[vital sinew]

When you do ".Text" you are just getting the current value of the text label

[hallow crag]

😭

what r u doing

[vital sinew]

Versus doing .zero gives you a reference to the TextLabel itself

A reference is simply just the computer saying "hey this thing exists at this location in the game memory"

[vital sinew]

Yeah it's like how you can pass-by-reference or pass-by-value

But that shows up in like every programming language

[opaque cave]

Can I ask any of ya'll what I should expect to pay for certain tasks in relation to scripting? I'm genuinely curious how certain tasks are valued

[crude quarry]

a billion

[vital sinew]

It's kinda like pointers if that's what you're referring to

Except you can't dereference it yourself

[opaque cave]

I'll start saving

[vital sinew]

Cuz Lua is a much higher-level language than C

[dusty bronze]

yeah that's what I was thinking about

[crude quarry]

Too much

[vital sinew]

Tbh it's valued as low as you can get someone to do it for 💀

[opaque cave]

fair enough

[vital sinew]

But like a better answer is that I'd say that simple UI setup stuff would be a few tens of dollars maybe I think would be "reasonable", but most people hiring scripters will pay way less

Scripters are kinda under-valued in this server imo (definitely not biased at all, lol)

Like someone'll pay someone $50 to make a thumbnail and icon for them, and then pay a scripter $50 to script their entire game LMAO

[crude quarry]

Nah $10

[opaque cave]

I'm curious how much a pretty standard gun system would cost, for wild west weaponry.

I'm also curious what AI NPC's and enemies with pathfinding cost to set up, enemies that shoot at you

[opaque cave]

Yeah I definitely think $50 for gfx is absurd when scripters should be getting way more

[crude quarry]

a bag of patato chips and a hot cola last offer

[opaque cave]

Scripters are the foundation for pretty much every game

[vital sinew]

I haven't done a gun system before so idk how hard that is, but pathfinding is generally not that hard

[crude quarry]

depends on the gun system

[vital sinew]

But if you want pretty complex "AI" behavior then that would definitely be a lot more

[crude quarry]

R6 and R15 are different types

[vital sinew]

I say "AI" in quotes, cuz it's not actually AI

[opaque cave]

Probably r15

[vital sinew]

It's just a state machine essentially

[vital sinew]

And a state machine is essentially just a bunch of ifs and elses

[opaque cave]

yeah that makes sense, I just use ai because it comes to mind

A non-player character

[crude quarry]

if player == player
shoot
elseif plyaer ~= player
shoot

[vital sinew]

Nah ur good everyone calls it AI

I'm just being pedantic

It doesn't matter

[vital sinew]

Lol ez pz

[opaque cave]

fair enough, so from what i'm hearing it depends on how complex you want each system to be (which is kinda what I assumed)

[vital sinew]

I've also never done an AI NPC pathfinding script before

[opaque cave]

What kind of stuff do you do?

[vital sinew]

Yeah definitely. If you just want an NPC to walk back-and-forth then it's super easy, but if you want them to have like 10 possible states (idle, attacking, chasing, running, shooting, etc...) then it's just more complicated

[hallow crag]

most of the time u can just do node graph + pathfinding module + BulkMoveTo no need for PathfindingService

obv only use BulkMoveTo if its alot of npcs

[opaque cave]

I immediately think of blackhawk 5 which has little bases where enemies are there till they spot you and then they shoot and pursue

thats kinda what I'm aiming for

[vital sinew]

Lol good question! I started doing Luau scripting like 1-1.5 months ago, but I scripted an entire cashgrab game, and am working on a trading system for another game. I'm also doing the scripting for a much much bigger game, but we haven't gotten very far into that yet. And then I'm working on making my own cashgrab game too (different from the first one) and that's more than half done I'd say

[vital sinew]

Looking solid!

[vital sinew]

Yup!

What is Node Grpah though?

Node Graph*

[opaque cave]

Very cool, for a couple months of scripting you've done a heap. Me with my procrastination could never

[hallow crag]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/nodegraphv20-create-connected-networks-of-nodes-easily/2865840

[vital sinew]

Lol I'm just doing it for fun before I start school again in the fall

[opaque cave]

maze generation is a cool system

[vital sinew]

And then I'll be in school for like 6 more years 😢

[opaque cave]

Good way to keep the brain active

[hallow crag]

1 month!?!?! did u have prev programming knowledge

[opaque cave]

Well thank you for the info, I'm a little better informed @vital sinew , good luck with your projects

[vital sinew]

Yeah I have a B.S. Computer Science

[hallow crag]

ohh makes sense

[crude quarry]

nah he came out th womb coding

[vital sinew]

Yeah lol

I wouldn't be that fast if I hadn't been programming for like 5 years already

Roblox dev is VERY different from any other programming that I've done, though

[opaque cave]

crazy work

[hallow crag]

game programming is a whole different side of programming lol

[vital sinew]

The most similar thing I've done is probably SystemVerilog

[vital sinew]

Definitely...

[crude quarry]

you can do minecraft mods with lua I think thats similar

[vital sinew]

It's really just the server-client stuff that's different for me

Other than that it's not that different from typical programming

And the fact that you are working with visual objects ig

Since usually in programming you can't see what you're working on

[hallow crag]

yeah took me a while to fully understand the client/server and how they differ from eachother

[vital sinew]

Pretty cool!

[terse violet]

who can fix my bugs?

[crude quarry]

impossible

[hallow crag]

send the code and what the bugs are

[crude quarry]

fix bugs
lie and say they were a feature

[terse violet]

nah a game

[vital sinew]

Depends how bad they are

[hallow crag]

yeah really useful but creating the nodes is so long sometimes it can take up to 10k lines if serialized

[vital sinew]

Tf?

Interesting

[terse violet]

https://www.roblox.com/games/129364765168445/Grow-Rocks

[vital sinew]

Is this just scripted through AI?

[crude quarry]

def

[hallow crag]

probably since he cant fix bugs

[terse violet]

no

[hallow crag]

send a snippet of some of ur code

[vital sinew]

What are the bugs

Seems fine so far

[terse violet]

dev products

[vital sinew]

Mutations poggers

[vital sinew]

Are you only using "ProcessReceipt" one singular time in your code?

[hallow crag]

what about em

[vital sinew]

Or do you use ProcessReceipt in every separate ServerScript

?

[terse violet]

i didn’t program it some guy did

[vital sinew]

Go into your game

[terse violet]

i just commissioned em

[vital sinew]

Do CTRL + Shift + F

Do "ProcessReceipt"

[hallow crag]

whats wrong with the dev products my guy 😭

[queen kelp]

it solves the maze now

[vital sinew]

And tell me how many times that comes up

Or just send a screenshot of the CTRL + Shift + F screen

[vital sinew]

SOLID!

Nice!

[queen kelp]

wait

if i publish this

can people see the console

[terse violet]

im not on my pc anytime soon

[hallow crag]

now create a actual path in the maze that shows the solution

[queen kelp]

i did but i didnt like it

[vital sinew]

I'm not sure how we can help you fix bugs if you can't even edit the game

[queen kelp]

i like the console one better

[vital sinew]

Lol

[crude quarry]

I need to stop coding and debuggging for 5 hours a day

thats a great way of getting burnout

[queen kelp]

i could show you it

[vital sinew]

Bro's print statements are in French

[queen kelp]

nvm

[vital sinew]

💀

[queen kelp]

i didnt save the code

[hallow crag]

u still havnt said whats wrong with the dev products

[vital sinew]

True that

@terse violet What is specifically wrong with the dev products?

[terse violet]

i dont think it works well (post purchase) few bugs and the plant system is buggy

https://www.roblox.com/communities/33983090/8in#!/about

join

[hallow crag]

poorly scripted

[vital sinew]

I joined, but not promising to help

I'll see if it's simple enough

[terse violet]

ok

if u help i can give a cut since we putting ton into ads

[vital sinew]

Yeah I'll see

[hallow crag]

damn i just realised we have 10 mutuals i could help

[vital sinew]

Add me to the game

[hallow crag]

i thought u were just some random

[vital sinew]

Bro heard about a cut and wants in

[terse violet]

lol im normally bts for big games

sm1 messed up the game so im not sure which version is the best up to date one

[vital sinew]

Don't hire this guy again

This is kinda cooked ngl

Like the organization I mean

[terse violet]

ik

but still readable

u can go through version history and find the right version

[queen kelp]

what else should i add to my maze generator

[hallow crag]

lol

i joined btw

[terse violet]

might need u for another game cl

[vital sinew]

As I expected

ProcessReceipt is being used multiple times

In separate scripts

You can't do that

[hallow crag]

whats the game

[vital sinew]

Only one of them will get used

[vital sinew]

It's "Grow Rocks"

[hallow crag]

😭 did the scripter not realize its a callback not a connection

[vital sinew]

I'll let Killa cook up a solution lol

It's a little bit too much for me to reasonably have time to do

[vital sinew]

Nah it's so common

Happened with another game I got commissioned to fix

[queen kelp]

added gui

[hallow crag]

crazy its common sense 😭

[vital sinew]

I get why people don't know, cuz it's not like Roblox just tells you when you type it out

But if you're going to be doing commissions, its a mistake that you should never mistake

Cuz you should know how to read documentation

[queen kelp]

@vital sinew

[vital sinew]

What's up

?

[queen kelp]

take a guess how laggy this thing is

[vital sinew]

Not at all?

[hallow crag]

yeah but there no way this guy does this for every game its probably his first time

[vital sinew]

Maze generation is pretty efficient

[queen kelp]

good guess

its litterally instant

[vital sinew]

Yeah idk. Also the fact that he only used ServerScripts and put them all in ServerScriptService without folders

[queen kelp]

i lowk thought it was going to be very laggy

[vital sinew]

Bro should never do another commission

[vital sinew]

Yeah it's not that bad lol

Which is really cool!

[queen kelp]

im uploading it for a showcase

[vital sinew]

It's probably recursive backtracking

[hallow crag]

😭 i did that in my first 2 weeks of game dev now my games are fully modularized

[vital sinew]

Hell yeah!

[vital sinew]

Yeah my first game is like that

[queen kelp]

but im scared roblox will delete it because they been deleting games that are just baseplates

[vital sinew]

Every game after has been so much more modular, though

The whole "only use 1 ServerScript" thing is kinda stupid imo tho

[terse violet]

a tower one

[vital sinew]

Roblox devs are too obsessed with ModuleScripts

[queen kelp]

this is litterally one server script

only other script is local script in gui

[vital sinew]

Yeah that's good

[terse violet]

wait so what exactly is wrong w the game!

[vital sinew]

I mean using 1 ServerScript for an entire game

[hallow crag]

theres no problem with having 1 server script and 1 local script that loads modules on the server/client asynchronously

[vital sinew]

Using 1 ServerScript for a maze system is good (and how it should be)

[queen kelp]

19 server scripts for clicker game

kidding

clicker games are easy

[terse violet]

salty can u add me since i got dms off

[hallow crag]

its using ProcessReceipt more then once

[vital sinew]

Yeah there's nothing wrong with it, but I don't force myself to do that

[vital sinew]

Yeah I added you

[terse violet]

how hard is that to fix

[vital sinew]

Not that hard

[hallow crag]

not hard @vital sinew can do it

easily

[vital sinew]

I gotta sleep

Ngl

3 AM for me

[queen kelp]

its 6 am for me

[terse violet]

damn

[hallow crag]

how do u structure ur codebase?

[queen kelp]

i use vs code

its so much better

[hallow crag]

whats wrong with the roblox editor

[queen kelp]

not much

vs code is just more efficient for me

[vital sinew]

Only been scripting for like 1.5 months so it changes with every game cuz I figure out better organization every game

[terse violet]

killa can u help w the handling

since salty is going to sleep

[hallow crag]

yeah sure rank me my display is Hex

[vital sinew]

This is from a game I'm working on rn

My game

[queen kelp]

i hate folders

idk why

[vital sinew]

Lol

[queen kelp]

they just piss me off

[vital sinew]

Folders are nice imo

Depends how big your game is

If it's small, then it really doesn't matter

But if you have like 200 ModuleScripts then folders are nice

[queen kelp]

heres the thing

there should never be an occurance

[young crystal]

u dont like organization?

[hallow crag]

how do u load ur modules?

[queen kelp]

where you have that many

[queen kelp]

no

it means im more creative

trust

[rough gate]

It's a mistake that you should never mistake, got it

[vital sinew]

I just require them in whatever script I need. I don't have a Module Loading script. I know that some people use that idk I haven't looked into it yet

[thorn arch]

require

[young crystal]

is there any way i could improve this code?

[hallow crag]

this is how i structure mine and i just have 1 serverscript that loads them all

[young crystal]

thats what i do 😄

[queen kelp]

are you making a grow a garden ripoff

[young crystal]

no

its a cultivation game

not the farming kind of cultivation

like from chinese mythogly

[queen kelp]

do you own a plot

where you plant items that grow

[young crystal]

no

[queen kelp]

do you have a plot

[young crystal]

it has nothing to do with gardening

[queen kelp]

let me see the actual game

not scripts

[slender yew]

Why does a beam that I'm emitting and then connecting it to the players waist go invisible, I'm trying to make a direction marker but when I go into first person it becomes invisible

[queen kelp]

do you have anything built yet

[young crystal]

can u post medal videos in here?

[queen kelp]

i think so

[vital sinew]

Yeah that's great! Idrk how to do that tbh

But maybe I'll learn it eventually

Tbh I don't really have much of a desire to, besides just curiosity on how other people do stuff

[young crystal]

alr hol on

[queen kelp]

not sure

[thorn arch]

No actually

[hallow crag]

this codebase is actually ass (grow rock) 😭

[vital sinew]

There's nothing wrong with doing that, I just don't feel the need to do it is what I'm saying. Cuz I'm not doing anything particularly big yet

[thorn arch]

This is pretty much perfect code

[young crystal]

https://medal.tv/games/roblox-studio/clips/kyWVN6KJFISuhEzuB?invite=cr-MSx2OXEsMjg0NDIxMjgw

[young crystal]

w

[queen kelp]

ok

[thorn arch]

U can basically have a module that requires and returns all the modules

So that u just require that 1 module

[vital sinew]

Yeah I kinda get that

[thorn arch]

That's pretty much it

[vital sinew]

I just don't really see that much of a point in doing that yet cuz I haven't needed to do it

[thorn arch]

It's a quality of life thing

If you have a bunch of modules you're requiring in many scripts

For example if you're using a module for datastore and cash and rebirths

[vital sinew]

You can just require your big module

[thorn arch]

You will usually require those together

[vital sinew]

Which contains references to each required module?

[thorn arch]

That's...

[young crystal]

when i do data store ill just use serverstorage

[thorn arch]

What that is

You are already doing it lol

[vital sinew]

Yeah I'm just asking if that's what you're doing

[thorn arch]

Wdym

[thorn arch]

Yh it's the same thing lol

[vital sinew]

Wdym it's the same thing? Same thing as what?

[hallow crag]

????

[thorn arch]

Same thing i was talking about

Using one module that requires all the other modules

Modules are just big functions lol

[vital sinew]

Lol I'm asking if the one module that requires all the other modules is just creating this big module that requires every other module and stores them in some table. And then in your other scripts you can just require that module and then index the table with the key (module name) corresponding to the module that you want

[thorn arch]

Yeah similar, my method would just return a tuple instead of a table

[lethal nacelle]

anyone interested discord to roblox bot? access datastores, send announcements etc.

[thorn arch]

You need to host the bot

[vital sinew]

Oh yeah I guess you probably don't want it to be mutable

[thorn arch]

Basically in the big module, store each module in a variable via requiring, return all the variables

[young crystal]

i was gonna try it, cause sum1 told me too

[vital sinew]

Interesting

Ig it saves you from having to type "require" and the path to modules a lot

[thorn arch]

Then in main scripts you can do local module1, module2, module3 = require()

[vital sinew]

But I'm ok with typing that stuff out

[thorn arch]

Yup that's the only benefit

[vital sinew]

I don't really follow, tbh cuz how do you require the correct scripts?

[lethal nacelle]

idc about, if anyone interested? ill give bot files

[young crystal]

i dont mind

[vital sinew]

Like how are you choosing which scripts you are getting from the big module

[thorn arch]

Yk how pcalls return multiple things

[vital sinew]

Yeah I know what a tuple is

[thorn arch]

The big module would return multiple modules

And it would be directly assigned to the variables

[vital sinew]

Yeah I get that

[thorn arch]

You don't

[young crystal]

is it necessary?

[thorn arch]

If you want to, then you can use a function instead

That takes the module name

As argument

[thorn arch]

No

Saves time

But not necessary

[vital sinew]

Where I'm a little bit lost is if you have like 20 modules that you require in your main module and return then wouldn't you have to do

local module1, module2, module3, module4, module5...,module20 = require()

Lol

Like ik that you're not doing that

[thorn arch]

Pretty much

[vital sinew]

Oh ok

Uhhh

Interesting

You have to do that in every script????

[thorn arch]

Well you would do it anyways?

[vital sinew]

I wouldn't have to write out "moduleX" 20 times normally lol

I'm def misunderstanding what you're doing

I feel like

Cuz there's no way you're actually doing it in the way that I'm understanding

Because that would be like 10 times worse than not using a big module

[thorn arch]

Well u wouldn't use 1 big module for all of it

You would use a big module to require some related modules together

And you could have a few big modules

[vital sinew]

How I'm understanding your explanation is that in every script that requires any module script, you have to require the big modulescript and then call some require function which returns a tuple of EVERY modulescript in your entire codebase

[thorn arch]

It's about balance

[vital sinew]

Which is terrible

[thorn arch]

Nah

[vital sinew]

Ah ok I see

I still feel like that's worse than just requiring modules when I need them, but hey if that works best for you then keep doing that!

Everyone has their own style

[thorn arch]

Like each big module requires 4-5 small modules

[vital sinew]

Yeah that makes sense

[thorn arch]

Like i said it's about finding a balance

[vital sinew]

I just don't always need a group of 5 modules to be together all the time that's why I don't think I'd use that

[thorn arch]

Having too many big modules means you are not getting any benefit

[vital sinew]

Why aren't you just using a table to store all of the modules

[thorn arch]

Having too few means you load everything on every script

[vital sinew]

And then just indexing the table with the name of the modulescript you want?

[thorn arch]

You can also do that

[vital sinew]

Isn't that just better all around?

Ig it's a few more lines of code

[thorn arch]

You have to write more lines but less overhead

[vital sinew]

Yeah

Preferable for me I think!

[thorn arch]

Requiring each module individually is the least overhead

[vital sinew]

I don't really like using tuples much anyways

[thorn arch]

Requiring everything on one module is the least number of lines

You just have to find something in the middle

That's reasonable for you

[vital sinew]

Yessir I appreciate that!

[queen kelp]

local function printMazeWithPath(maze, width, height, pathGrid)
    for y = 1, height do
        local top = ""
        local mid = ""
        for x = 1, width do
            top = top .. (maze[x][y].walls.top and "+---" or "+   ")
            if pathGrid and pathGrid[x] and pathGrid[x][y] then
                mid = mid .. (maze[x][y].walls.left and "| * " or "  * ")
            else
                mid = mid .. (maze[x][y].walls.left and "|   " or "    ")
            end
        end
        print(top .. "+")
        print(mid .. "|")
    end
    local bottom = ""
    for x = 1, width do
        bottom = bottom .. "+---"
    end
    print(bottom .. "+")
    print("Maze print complete. Path is marked with *")
end

@vital sinew

this is how my printing function works

it was tricky to do it took me like 7 tries

[keen lynx]

whats the best yt scripter to learn from ?

[hallow crag]

damn bro string interpolation and string.format exist

[vital sinew]

7th time's a charm!

Lol nice script!

[vital sinew]

Idk

Tbh you should just trying scripting stuff

Watch a few videos on the very basics

And just hit your head against the wall trying to make something

That's how you're going to learn best

Oh and also use AI a lot to help teach you stuff and debug

Just make sure that you don't just blindly follow/copy the AI's code

Cuz then you won't learn anything

[queen kelp]

actually

if you use ai to make scripts and they work you can look over them to see what does what and how its applied

[queen kelp]

starting with a blank canvas doesnt always help

its good to get guidance wherever you can find it

[vital sinew]

Yeah that's why I recommended learning the very basics from pretty much anyone first

And then just try to make something

Like literally just making something that prints out the numbers 1 to 5

[slender yew]

How can I define a custom function everytime I click a button?

I have a dialogueUI that has 2 reply buttons, but I don't know where to put the function for what I want to happen when the player presses the button, I want it to reset everytime I reapply the UI to a different NPC so I can define another function.

[vital sinew]

And then something that makes a block get more transparent over time

[vital sinew]

Uhhh you could create a dialogue class that takes in a function as a parameter to the .new() function and then uses that in the methods of/for the class ig?

Idrk

I might not be fully understanding what you mean/what you're asking!

[queen kelp]

i asked chatgpt

local DialogueUI = script.Parent
local ReplyButton1 = DialogueUI:WaitForChild("ReplyButton1")
local ReplyButton2 = DialogueUI:WaitForChild("ReplyButton2")

-- Store connection references so we can disconnect them
local reply1Connection
local reply2Connection

-- Call this when opening dialogue with a specific NPC
function ApplyDialogueUI(npc)
    -- Optional: update UI labels with npc data
    DialogueUI.Visible = true
    ReplyButton1.Text = npc.Reply1Text
    ReplyButton2.Text = npc.Reply2Text

    -- Disconnect old functions (if any)
    if reply1Connection then
        reply1Connection:Disconnect()
    end
    if reply2Connection then
        reply2Connection:Disconnect()
    end

    -- Define new click handlers based on the NPC
    reply1Connection = ReplyButton1.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
        print("Reply 1 clicked for", npc.Name)
        npc:HandleReply(1)
    end)

    reply2Connection = ReplyButton2.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
        print("Reply 2 clicked for", npc.Name)
        npc:HandleReply(2)
    end)
end

local npc = {
    Name = "Merchant",
    Reply1Text = "Yes, show me your wares.",
    Reply2Text = "No thanks.",
    HandleReply = function(self, index)
        if index == 1 then
            print(self.Name .. " opens shop.")
            -- open shop UI, etc.
        else
            print(self.Name .. " says goodbye.")
            -- close dialogue, etc.
        end
    end
}

[compact granite]

guys my code nerd friend sent me a roblox script and challenged me to explain to him can someone help me i dont know a fuck about scripting

[polar cargo]

how do i fire the client from the server it keeps on giving me argument nil or something

[queen kelp]

use chatgpt

[hallow crag]

create a npc class

[slender yew]

I did it alr

[hallow crag]

or just loop through every npc and modify/add things accordingly

[cold stone]

u use the remote event and :Fireclient() passing through the player u want to fire the remote to

[hallow crag]

FireClient(player)

[polar cargo]

i have done that

ohh

[cold stone]

yes

now get

[hallow crag]

u can also do FireAllClients() which will fire to all the players at once

from the server

[polar cargo]

ty guys

[keen lynx]

devking script guide from 2018 ?

[queen kelp]

2018 might be too outdated

that was 7 years ago

[median frost]

yes and no for devking

he needs to update some videos but most of it is still accurate

so its a good start point and any issues can be sorted out by askin peeps

[plain marlin]

😰

[tall rampart]

Looking for a scripter for a game idea i have

[queen kelp]

syfm

[plain marlin]

2015 was 10 years ago

[plain marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/fuck-fuck-you-middle-finger-middle-finger-gif-15294280

[median frost]

when i started devving

[queen kelp]

your point is

[plain marlin]

there isn’t always a point..

not everything is argument you freak

[queen kelp]

yes there is

[plain marlin]

?

[queen kelp]

what is the reason of saying that 2015 was 10 years ago

[plain marlin]

to rage bait you

😂

[queen kelp]

sure

grass is green

[plain marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/gay-bdaysmm2-gif-7829373181570275054

[plain marlin]

why is it like that on your screen

[queen kelp]

wdym

[plain marlin]

weird af

[queen kelp]

why is it yellow?

[plain marlin]

no why is like that

[queen kelp]

because im on pc

[plain marlin]

ohh

[queen kelp]

not ios

[slender yew]

what I did was pass functions as parameters creating connections to the buttons and removing them each time

ok I might convert it to OOP

[uneven pulsar]

Please help I can't open the tabs

[polar cargo]

i need help with my code

so i have a prompt window that displays whether u want to remove 50 clicks for a chance to win like 500 and whether i click the okay window it opens the congrats window or the normal window where your supiosed to choose a colour. if you choose wrong you just get sent to the lose screen, and if u win you get +500 and the win screen, but nothings working as intended

i aslo cant send the code hre

cuz its too long

[dusty bronze]

hey so are CFrames 4x4 Matrixes or 3x3?

[somber panther]

just pack it up

[hallow crag]

position + orientation

[steady plover]

yo FUCK fw

i got wiped as atk with captain

for disconnecting

[wet basalt]

I’ve been digging into client-side animation handling on Roblox, and I’d really appreciate your input in case I’m totally off track. Rather than explaining everything here, I wrote a detailed post on the DevForum: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/using-animator-instances-on-the-server-is-a-bad-idea/3780616/7

[cedar otter]

I need assistance from a coder

To look at something

[solemn echo]

how do i make a conveyor model look good?

[thorn arch]

take real life inspo

[solemn echo]

but its stationary

yk

[thorn arch]

Wdym

[mint cloud]

Sudea skidding once again

[sick saffron]

guys is there a way to stop a players animation from the server side?

because ive added an animation to a player after an npc does something to them, and this animation gets added from the server side but the player is already playing a different animation so both animations are playing at the same time and it looks very weird

[soft hull]

animation:Stop()

[sick saffron]

smh

i should have worded my question better

u can call an event from the server and the client can pick it up right?