code-discussion

[wise turtle]

by just requiring ur dependencies normally

[wooden harbor]

yes but you are also focused on framework-style architecture

If you have alot of modules, loaders can make the management easier

[wise turtle]

only in SSA

in MSA each script is a loader itself

[lost gulch]

thats true ngl

[wooden harbor]

Also eliminates the cyclic dependency issues

[wise turtle]

makes management harder imo if you truly have a very complex architecture

[wooden harbor]

which is common when number of module increases

[wise turtle]

you get way less control on individual parts of the gmae

[wise turtle]

skill issue imo!

[lapis haven]

who needs organization

make local scripts and scripts only andm ake sure they're all unnamed

[wise turtle]

I haven’t ran into an issue with cyclic dependencies that wasnt caused by bad structuring and design choices

[lapis haven]

use no folders

[weary socket]

So uh correct me if im wrong, but if you write a module that connects to a roblox event (let's say a .Changed event on a BoolValue), if you write this code in the outermost scope of the module script (the part that runs with the first require), and let's say you have an NPC that has a script that require's this module, then you can run into a problem where, if this script required this module first, then the .Changed event is connected from this script, and if the npc is destroyed, the script is also. However, from my experience, whenever a script is destroyed, roblox would also disconnect all connections made to Roblox events automatically, meaning the .Changed will D/C even if you dont want that. So I would throw that code that connects into a OnInit() funciton to call from my module loader system, to connect it from a script i know for sure wont be destroyed.

[wise turtle]

Not reading allat

[wooden harbor]

Not really a skill issue. Sometimes the context is simply too large for a tired brain. Code should be easy to understand and maintain. Lower cognitive load is always better.

[lost gulch]

lol

[weary socket]

for me thats the only reason i use a module loader

idk im wrong tho

[lost gulch]

it's funny to me that we have one hater on module loaders haha

rest is cool

[wise turtle]

you are just a skid

so if you like module loaders

it must be bad

[lost gulch]

cool man

whatever up to your preference

[wooden harbor]

ts guy is legit pro if he calls you skid then you probably are

[static sage]

i think youd just have 2 connections

[lost gulch]

😂

[static sage]

rather than it disconnecting

[weary socket]

programmers should be able to like or dislike different aspects of programming styles, that's literally what makes programming good. The fact we can all have different ways to solve the same issue

[static sage]

and one would get gcd when the npc gets deleted

[lapis haven]

certain aspects of programming are simply a no go tho

[weary socket]

True

[lost gulch]

yeah

[weary socket]

But a basic module loader cant be as bad as ace claims it is, and more over, calling someone who is thinking of using it a skid?

[lost gulch]

basic module loader is aight but advanced one 100% better

[weary socket]

i guess just trolling, mb. It's not that deep, ig

[wise turtle]

its higher cognitive load as it gets more complex actually because you need to generalize control of all ur systems into 1 script

[wooden harbor]

Nonono wdym 1 script? its just a mapping

[wise turtle]

U want to control load order, lifecycles etc

[wise turtle]

Ragebait

[lost gulch]

i got one more to say

profilestore service is very good. ik you aint gonna hate on this one as well lol

[wise turtle]

profilestore is trash

[lost gulch]

there we go

lol

[wise turtle]

its objectively true

[weary socket]

profile store beef time

[lost gulch]

at this point

[wise turtle]

use lyra

its the best datastore library because it has atomic transactions

If u use profilestores u need to implement 2pc on top of it

which i mean if u can be bothered then sure

[lapis haven]

ace

have you ever done a trading system before

[lost gulch]

wait wrong one i meant

ProfileService

what do u think abt it?

[wise turtle]

its the same thing

no atomic transactions

profileservice is just profilestore but worse

[lost gulch]

send me the link to it if u can

[weary socket]

is atomic transactions still important if your game does not use trading in any form?

[wise turtle]

https://github.com/paradoxum-games/lyra

[wise turtle]

any usecase where u need to edit multiple keys, a transaction should be used

[wooden harbor]

roblox datastore isnt ACID compliant?

[lost gulch]

oh yeah one more important question.
if i want to make a roblox fighting r6 game battleground which service should be used lyra or profileservice/profilestore service

[wise turtle]

nope

[wooden harbor]

How does it not have race conditions, inconsistent data etc issues

[wise turtle]

doesnt really matter

[lost gulch]

ok

[wise turtle]

it depends on how u use it

[lost gulch]

thanks for the info tho ❤️ i mean no harm

much apprieciate it

[wise turtle]

updateasync is atomic

[lost gulch]

but Stay locked in, self-disciplined and consistent

[wooden harbor]

Cant a user perform replay attack

?

[wise turtle]

how will they do that

[wooden harbor]

Or TOCTOU attack?

[wooden harbor]

spam remote event simultaneously via exploit?

[wise turtle]

that is prevented by the developer

[wooden harbor]

You can also mitigate network jitter to make sure the requests hit at exact ms

[lost gulch]

ace lowkey why do you look like that ur mad rn lol

ur typing makes me think ur aggressive lol

[wise turtle]

Idk

im actually a really kind person 🙂

🥺

[lost gulch]

glad to hear that

[weary socket]

im thinking of storing player data not in roblox's data stores but in youtube comments

like randomized videos

any endorsements or advice?

[regal salmon]

might get rate limited by youtube

[weary socket]

ah nvm, ty

[wooden harbor]

Cloud db/storage arent that expensive...

[floral wharf]

who needs help

[snow veldt]

interesting

"Hi guys today we are going to talk about.."

"hawntddev = {

}

[lime frost]

Just made my first running and walking script, feeling successful!

[cyan lantern]

congratulations on beginner

[modern seal]

noww make parkourr script

[lime frost]

Soon ™

[warm wave]

yo, I have a little problem... I am trying to make a little system where there is 2 chairs and when there are 2 players sitting on the chairs, there is a 3 second count down. if a player leaves a chair in that countdown, then it stops everything and goes back to waiting for players. I am just trying to figure out how to cancel everything if a player leaves a chair in that cooldown.

[strange ravine]

are coroutines used often and if they are used in what situation would u use them instead of task spawn for example

[stable verge]

pretty sure you would detect when the occupant changes and check if they left during the countdown

[velvet crane]

start

jump = yes
W = Forward
A = Left
D = Right
S = Backwards
High Graphics = yes
no bugs = yes
end

[modern seal]

https://tenor.com/view/frog-frogs-attack-frog-fight-fight-gif-12598634918728865416

[cold pebble]

yeah theyre used sometimes mostly when you want more control over when code pauses and resumes like with coroutine.yield and coroutine.resume for most simple async stuff though people just use task.spawn or task.delay since its easier

[cold pebble]

just start the countdown then check if both chairs still have players if someone leaves cancel the countdown and reset

[hasty mesa]

meow meow

[proven plover]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955054446092623932/1475797634852716564/nah_im_done.gif

dogs > cats

[alpine dirge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1294569837770702940/1480995923755532418/caption.gif

[elfin timber]

has anyone here used roblox assisstant with any other llm

[shut grove]

yo u want a pre-built script, I have one

[cyan lantern]

TELL ME

TELL ME HOW THE FUCK IS 542 < 6 EQUALS TRUE

[lean ocean]

its nt

not

[cyan lantern]

oh oh i fucking figured it out

6 is bigger than 5 in unicode

so thats why

[rotund pawn]

I want to create simple "Walk to doors to open them", handled locally.
How can I create this without complicated and heavy checks if part touched character has attribute door &without server check if user touched hitbox of doors etc

[cyan lantern]

step 1 use pathfinding service to door
step 2 open up local script
step 3 find door's hitbox
step 4 make if hitbox touched by you then door be transparent and cant collide
step 5 add buffer and turn it back to normal again

[rotund pawn]

The doors will be all around the map, just general doors to enter any building anywhere.
I understand your point but I need some light way how to handle all the doors. I think I will just drop to Proximity Prompt for simplier handling

[slow crow]

hey yall
im making a game rn and its a anime bandit beater typa game in the sense
and i have a scripter but he doesnt script much advanced system he focuses more on fronted
i do modelling , building and animations so scripting isnt my expertise
do you guys think it would be good for me to pay someone to make the system and from there one just add stuff

[shy cipher]

use collectionservice and apply the same logic they said, it'll start working for every door

[shy cipher]

backend scripting in the basic sense doesn't require a lot of mathematical knowledge, for stuff like basic data handling which is usually enough for roblox games. I reckon you should take up that responsibility instead, you don't need an absolutely decked out backend if you don't need it

[slow crow]

so just try making it within ourselves?

alright thank you

[shy cipher]

it'd be pretty cumbersome to manage a scripter who likely has other projects to contribute to or just doesn't want to script, especially in backend where you have to "learn" the codebase that is presented in front of you, the problem with hiring new backend scripters is learning the codebase if there's one present. you yourself having built the codebase, I feel, is more beneficial (mainly because I script 80% backend)

[rotund pawn]

As map is semi-randomly generated, can I use remote Event to pass All doors list to collectionservice and assign all hitboxes in CS .Touched?

[shy cipher]

as far as I remember, you can only pass UTF-8 values into remote events, not quite sure, haven't run into a "bad datatype inserted into remote event" error in a long while now. also, are you passing the doors to the server or to the client? if it's the server, this is pretty pointless. if everything's in the workspace, the client can also see everything that has your "Door" tag, which again, makes remote events pointless. using .Touched is bad for hitboxes, but it works if you set it up correctly. but it's still bad nonetheless, I'd recommend something better like getpartsinbox (the new "hitbox" API roblox released recently to make this process much easier), or raycasts if applicable

@rotund pawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsC8px_oXdM

this video is good to understand the whole API

it's very easy to understand, just gets you the parts that are overlapping inside a hitbox

[rotund pawn]

as I know you can pass anything in RemoteEvents, I have used it few times already.
Second I understand the ways of alternatives to .Tocuhed, but my map is pretty large, so any doors that are located outside render distance due to FEnabled, will be nill.

I want to generate map => get all doors => pass HitBox of doors to client, client asigns the detection function to it and client can locally open doors when touched.

[shy cipher]

I checked, you can pass in any primitive type or any userdata that serializes well, as well as anything that exists in the datamodel. I think I confused this with datastores which only accept UTF-8. let me think about your situation for a bit though

[shy cipher]

are you talking about streamingenabled? filteringenabled just makes client changes not replicate to the server

[rotund pawn]

Yeah sorry, streaming enabled 😄

[shy cipher]

alright I think I understand what you mean now. since your map is big, some doors may not be streamed in yet (nil). the server doesn't have any render distance and simply knows everything, so you want to solve this by sending all the doors through a remote event. this could work, but it's not optimal and would be expensive. I think the practical solution is to use

 collectionservice:GetInstanceAddedSignal("DoorTag"):Connect(setUpDoor) --where setUpDoor is a function

this should get every new door that is streamed in without any remote event bogus, the client can simply use what it can see

[rotund pawn]

Ohhh, that is a new use case for me, detects new instance when rendered with tag. Thanks so much

[shy cipher]

detect the door opening on the client, send a remote event to the server to make sure they aren't cheating (ensure that they're at least 10 studs in the vicinity of the door I guess), and then have the server open the door

this is better than putting .Touched on every single door which is very explosive

[shy cipher]

(on the server)

[ashen jolt]

does none take per task now?

[rotund pawn]

Thank you for this solution, will add that

[ashen jolt]

i saw like 15 posts and either post not promising or scripter wants upfront

does none take per task atp?

[shy cipher]

no problem, I learned something too. remote events take more than UTF-8

[shy cipher]

one post for per task will get there eeeeventualllyyy

[ashen jolt]

me trying for 3 days atp

messages 3 guys

[shy cipher]

you could negotiate if your portfolio is up there with kobe

[ashen jolt]

no

i wanna hire

[rotund pawn]

Yeah they are just functions passed between client server, I like to pass whole models when doing some customization systems

[shy cipher]

I don't know about other scripters but I personally prefer per-task if I trust my client. if you want to appeal to everybody else you can.. change your payment plan

[ashen jolt]

dm me??

[shy cipher]

my accounts on limited access so the talking would either be on a private call inside this server, an alt, or here

discord thinks I'm a bot because my vpn kicks on randomly

it's till 15th march so it's only 3 days left

[ashen jolt]

i can dm u?

[shy cipher]

you can dm me but I won't be able to talk back

but it looks like calling works

[ashen jolt]

oh

[shy cipher]

I could screenshare what I want to say

[ashen jolt]

yep

where will u do it?

in dms?

[shy cipher]

excalidraw maybe

no, I can't message you back in DMs

it doesn't send the message when account's on limited access

but I have called for hours with my friends with limited access so it looks like that works

[ashen jolt]

well

ill see

[shy cipher]

but I can see your new messages

[rotund pawn]

Per-Task or Payment upfront is only correct way how work for someone, upfront is based on trust, per task is fair.

Also hiring devs here is pretty shitty, most ppl just AI vibe code everything or ghost you when they realize task is too much

[shy cipher]

that's my philosophy too, don't know why anybody would prefer any other payment plan in a purely spontaneous setting

[elfin timber]

they are just kids mostly too

😭

[shy cipher]

but I only really take commissions if I know I ain't getting bullshitted and they actually have the money 😔

[rotund pawn]

Yeah, so when some good hiring post is posted, the user is spammed by large number of kids, so good luck being noticed in this sea of DMs

[ashen jolt]

i do.

[elfin timber]

i will have to comission some people in the future and im already feeling like its gonna be a pain

[shy cipher]

I stopped commission scripting a while ago though, most people aren't very cooperative and the offers are usually not very appealing

[ashen jolt]

am goin thru it rn

[rotund pawn]

I help newbies with coding for free, made some friends this way, its fun actually

[shy cipher]

I feel it's best to do the scripting yourself wherever you can

[elfin timber]

i will have to com like

[rotund pawn]

Yup, my own games made way more cash than any commision

[shy cipher]

I agree, I do this too

[ashen jolt]

any tips for me ?

i am gonna hire

[elfin timber]

well im not like a godtier scripter so if i do something that i actually cant get to work that will be the only time i have to com a scripter but besides that i can script on my own

if i have to com its gonna be like builders, modelers, etc.

like the slave tier stuff

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1340191086882197514/1452455485440786552/IMG_3785.gif

[rotund pawn]

Create test scenario, check out previous work, look for AI usage (images, lazy details, lazy portfolio), communicate, have intructions ready and clear

[ashen jolt]

got it

[rotund pawn]

Scripter can make a good game with shitty models, modeler can only make showcase without scripter

[glossy wave]

Vouch

@elfin drum

[shy cipher]

make sure they actually know what they're doing. don't blindly go off of a portfolio, do an interview once you think their portfolio is good enough. that should expose their non-vibe coding abililties. why not vibe code? well, AI is basically aristotle when it comes to programming knowledge, it's a doodoo programmer in actually applying that knowledge in a way that isn't overcomplicated and works with everything else. it's only a good tool for learning, not replacing you.

[rotund pawn]

Ask for code example

[ashen jolt]

can i dm yall?

devatomic can u dm me

[slender cradle]

claude code will replace ALL programmers bro 😹

[glossy wave]

functional code > clean code/"good" practices

if it works then it works 🔥

[rotund pawn]

And about payment type, for example I use invoice for tax reasons so user gets some kind of trust when I tell them about it

[glossy wave]

its too stupid yet

[shy cipher]

imperative better

[elfin timber]

its especially bad when the thing you commision is something that you have to intergrate to existing systems without having the full code, it will be ass

[glossy wave]

what does imperative mean

[ashen jolt]

if i hire someone can i send their code to u?

[rotund pawn]

May I ask why?

[slender cradle]

until you try to update it then realize maybe your functional code isn't THAT great 🤣🤣😹😹

[rotund pawn]

If you hire someone, you get code after payment ussually, meaning I can't do much more than tell if its shit or not 😄

[glossy wave]

😂

thats true

[shy cipher]

imperative is a programming paradigm where everything is laid down sequentially and in steps, like your eyes aren't darting around everywhere to see "what this function does" because everything is functions. you can just Read bruh

[rotund pawn]

Spaghetti code with Gemini telling me which line does what I need to find >

[shy cipher]

no problem, but the aforementioned problems apply

[ashen jolt]

yo check dms 😭

[slender cradle]

yo aint that functional where you just read and everything is functions?

imperative involves changing state no?

[elfin timber]

oh my fucking god i should never make ui again i just made a full ai and noticed that its all textlabels insteado f textbuttons

fuck me

how do i fix this quickly 😭

[shy cipher]

the way I understood is that it's easier to read so it's automatically better

[slender cradle]

COOKED 😹

[ashen jolt]

@glossy wave check dms

[elfin timber]

its a chopped ui but i really dont wanna bother replacing it all even if this takes like 2 min max

[shy cipher]

use reclass

[slender cradle]

2 min replacing vs 2 min coping

choose your 2 mins

[elfin timber]

whats that

[slender cradle]

woah new niche plugin

[elfin timber]

a plugin prob

[shy cipher]

reclass allows you to convert related instances into others, like textbutton -> textlabel

[shy cipher]

Baba I use it sometime ok 👍

[slender cradle]

"baba"

[rotund pawn]

Any AI can generate CMD you put to console to replace it

[slender cradle]

dad

[shy cipher]

yessss, the original's on money but there's a thousand ripped off versions

[glossy wave]

use a ui converter plugin

[shy cipher]

it's a bit risky if your studio disconnects and you can't redo the change without version history anymore, I try to avoid this if I don't have to (they can just use reclass), but other than that command bar is OP

[elfin timber]

ok yea it works thanks yall

[shy cipher]

maybe my wifi is just balls

[glossy wave]

https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/133464640021362/GUI-Object-Class-Converter?keyword=class+converter&pageNumber=1&pagePosition=5 this could work

[rotund pawn]

Publish means version history is updated, or just copy to new place

[shy cipher]

whatever it's called brah, the thing that allows you to rollback to previous versions

from the autosave

[rotund pawn]

I miss GIT in Roblox studio

[shy cipher]

I miss the old UI thats all

the new one didn't introduce anything that I actually use regularly

[rotund pawn]

New one removed X buttons from top bar menu as far as I know, so you need to make custom page to see it

[shy cipher]

removed undo and redo too.. most used buttons you could argue

my Z button didn't work on my old laptop back then, so undoing was a pain

[rotund pawn]

Yeah its worse and worse every year..

[shy cipher]

worse than stein you could say

[rotund pawn]

Took me a while to understand😂

[fringe urchin]

hi
yall i tried yesterday learning luau from brawldev but roblox studio was just so boring
so what other ways is there to learn luau

[alpine dirge]

lol

if you think that's boring then you probably never touched luau documentation

brawldev goes over the most necessary basics

[fringe urchin]

ye but roblox studio in general is js boring idk i dont like the ui

maybe its js me

[peak jolt]

if you're learning luau specifically you spend most of your time in the script editor, which is just one big text box, so idrk what you mean cause a text box won't be much more exciting outside of roblox studio

you can try using vscode

[fringe urchin]

how?

[peak jolt]

with rojo

[fringe urchin]

thanks ill check that out

[peak jolt]

actually roblox has that built in now its called script sync or something

then you dont need rojo

i recommend checking that out first cause rojo is a bit more advanced and not well documented

[visual lagoon]

i think if he really hate studio, rojo will be better

[fringe urchin]

ill check both out

[peak jolt]

script sync supposedly does 90% of the thing (syncing vscode/file system to roblox studio), it just doesn't have all the advanced mapping rules and files-as-instances, so for learning luau it should be more than good enough

[alpine dirge]

lol that's worse for someone who doesn't know luau

[peak jolt]

why

[visual lagoon]

It kept resetting for me, and I had to reconfigure it every time I went into the studio

[peak jolt]

classic roblox

[visual lagoon]

maybe, script sync a bit easier, but rojo don't need luau knowledge

[alpine dirge]

he said he couldn't cope with brawldev

I don't see someone like that using rojo lmao

[visual lagoon]

I think it's a misconception that only professionals use rojo, although if luau is his first language, then I think so

[fringe urchin]

i mean i learned python for like a month before

but i lowkey forgot almost everything

[sly cipher]

has anyone played ultrakill?

[gray oyster]

j

[regal salmon]

yeah

not all of it but ive played it

[heavy shadow]

is it hard to code craftwars gmae

[regal salmon]

depends how skilled you are

[heavy shadow]

do u think u would struggle?

[regal salmon]

im not sure what craftwars is

but based on the brief description i read i'd say not really

[heavy shadow]

btw can i ask

how long have u been coding luau

[regal salmon]

nearing 5 years

but i went in with 4 or 5 years of coding knowledge beforehand

[heavy shadow]

oh how did u get that knowledge

[regal salmon]

i started making games in unity in 2017

and started making roblox games around 2021

[heavy shadow]

oh

dang

[regal salmon]

yeah

why do you ask?

[heavy shadow]

i just began

im getting used to function before going forward

and im being inconsistent already

[regal salmon]

that's normal, learning coding is harder for some than others

it took a while for me to be able to code comfortably

just gotta keep at it

[heavy shadow]

thx

[dim compass]

mincfraft

[teal bolt]

Is shapecast currently better than raycast hitbox? Im trying to figure them out rn

[dense spade]

raycast are rays,shapecast are shapes

shapecast take up more area

raycasts will have gaps

[teal bolt]

Yeah so for more precise hits?

[dense spade]

prob shapecast

[teal bolt]

Just interesting because im pretty sure raycast is used by combat warriors and other combat games and it seems to be pretty consistent

[dense spade]

well idk,it makes sense that shapecast wont have gaps

if ur doing raycast u need many rays throughout the blade

shapecast,one big shape

[teal bolt]

Yeah.. probably the more rays the more consistent it is

[dense spade]

yea

[teal bolt]

Ill look into both and decide

Thanks

[ashen jolt]

@wind storm

can u dm me rq?

[sturdy dirge]

yo

[shy bronze]

guys how can i make a ragdoll like dead rails/99 nights, i tried to make mine but it was weird when you die the player stay stiff unless you push him with something or another player to fall

[jagged mortar]

Dm

[median tree]

Add a force that pushes it

[shy bronze]

i did it still looked weird (the limbs doesnt move/spread)

[subtle fractal]

What Is a remote wrapper

[haughty sapphire]

a wrapper on remotes

[subtle fractal]

whats a wrapper

[haughty sapphire]

code that operates on something

[heavy shadow]

guys is it fine if chatgpt explains the things i dont understand like at all

[alpine dirge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1294569837770702940/1480995923755532418/caption.gif

[heavy shadow]

what

[alpine dirge]

yes

as long as you're learning

[heavy shadow]

im struggling with maths

returns

[knotty nova]

found something?

[heavy shadow]

i think u gonna need some real experience for that

i can only use functions 💀

[knotty nova]

thats how u build experience

[elfin timber]

you cant just be new and start by doing movement physics

[fair topaz]

how rare would it be that datastoreservice fails to retrieve an user's data?

if i retry 5 times

[haughty sapphire]

hey guys im new to scripting and i want to make gta 6 in 2 weeks can someone help me 🥺

[elfin timber]

only durring roblox issues or if your datastore is straightup made wrong

[knotty nova]

I am slowly realising that, but it differs per person

[fair topaz]

how can you make a wrong datastore

[knotty nova]

let's not exaggerate

[fair topaz]

isnt it just load data on join and save data on exit

[heavy shadow]

i meant learn from the basics

[elfin timber]

well yea you could fuck up the way you safe data badly and it could fail

never heard of that, but its possible

[heavy shadow]

just realiozed math is one of the mos important part of scripting

i thought i escaped math

[rancid fjord]

my roblox studio stuck at 15 fps

[knotty nova]

im in the exact situation as you 😭

[rancid fjord]

does anyone know the reason

[fair topaz]

i js save, remove any excess info that cant be saved and use setasync

[knotty nova]

yeah true

fundamentals are important

[fair topaz]

and if it returns an error, retry 5 times

its literally the only "emergency" mechanism

[heavy shadow]

i was literally stuck at functions for 2 days 💀

[knotty nova]

when u play ur game in studio and do ESC u can choose FPS settings right, under the settings tab

[heavy shadow]

i can now change properties

[rancid fjord]

like when im building still 15 fps

[knotty nova]

Owwhh

no clue man

might need to google that

[heavy shadow]

guys why am i thinking like what im learning are useless

[rancid fjord]

no solutions

[haughty sapphire]

what ru learning that u think is useless

[knotty nova]

AI maybe?

[wanton cloud]

probably because you're still a beginner

[rancid fjord]

lets se

[knotty nova]

earth rise pfp 🥹

[heavy shadow]

i just moved to math from functions

[pastel tangle]

anyone good at network optimization? i got an average 150kb/s+ RECV value on my game... onlu 10k parts map, streaming enabled, i even tried playtesting with all scripts disabled , recv is still high

[wanton cloud]

best photograph ever taken imo

[fading galleon]

guys how can I make a zombie wave so they keep distance between each other

[frigid wagon]

And math is literally goat

[haughty sapphire]

yea math is super useful snything advanced with physics or movements will need math

[knotty nova]

cant argue with that

its perfect

[heavy shadow]

ye chatgpt told me lol

im making it explain what is return

    return a + b
end

local result = add(2, 3)
print(result)``` is this right

[wanton cloud]

theres a period instead of a comma in the function parameters

[heavy shadow]

ye thats a mistak

    local myResult = a + b
    return myResult
end

local result = add(2, 3)
print(result)``` whats the difference

[haughty sapphire]

it just exits and passes a value back to the caller

[wanton cloud]

both are the same you're just returning the stored value in the second

but youre going to get the same value in both

[heavy shadow]

wym

[wanton cloud]

you store a + b in a variable and then return the variable value while in the first one you just return the value of a + b

[heavy shadow]

does it change anything if used in an actual game

[wanton cloud]

Nah

[ember nimbus]

it wasn't bait?

i'm shook

[haughty sapphire]

what

[wanton cloud]

but in this case its a bit unnecessary because both give you the same value

[heavy shadow]

so the second is better?

[haughty sapphire]

the first is better

[heavy shadow]

why

[wanton cloud]

the first is better because its more concise. the second one stores a + b in a variable for no reason

[heavy shadow]

oh

ok

thx

whats the code again for changing location of a part

is it vector3?

[frigid wagon]

yes

[haughty sapphire]

cframe also

[icy heron]

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
        char.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
            if not (child:IsA("Model") and (child:HasTag("Focus") or child:HasTag("Artifact"))) then return end
            local idVal = child:FindFirstChild("FocusID")
            if not idVal then
                print("creating StringValue")
                idVal = Instance.new("StringValue")
                idVal.Name = "FocusID"
                idVal.Value = game:GetService("HttpService"):GenerateGUID(false)
                idVal.Parent = child
                print("created:", child:FindFirstChild("FocusID"))
            end
        end)
    end)
end)

genueinly dont know what i could be doing wrong here vro it never runs the code sm1 help

[heavy shadow]

while true do
    myPart.Position = myPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 1, 0)
    task.wait(0.5)
    myPart.Position = myPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, -1, 0)
    task.wait(0.5)
end```

why myPart.Poition need to be repeated

[elfin timber]

is this some decimal shenanigans?

[heavy shadow]

a...

[haughty sapphire]

it doesnt, ur adding the vector onto the current position vector

[heavy shadow]

what

[haughty sapphire]

u dont need to repeat it

[heavy shadow]

so myPart.Position + is not needed

[ember nimbus]

string.format("%.2f", value) 2 decimal places

numbers in a computer are stored in binary

so like how you w ant to represent 1/3 in decimal, 0.333333333.. binary can't do 1/10, it turns into 0.0001100110011...

[heavy shadow]

    local result = a + b
    return result
end

theResult = add(2, 3)
print(theResult)``` is this right math

[elfin timber]

yea i know

never actually had it happen to me

[ember nimbus]

yes but i wanted to emphasise it's not because binary is worse than decimal it's just a certain ratios

some people view decimal and binary as separate things, decimal as numbers and binary as computer representation

[haughty sapphire]

binary is still numbers its just base 2 instead of base 10

[ember nimbus]

did i say it wasn't

[haughty sapphire]

they rnt really separate things

[ember nimbus]

when i said "some people view" i meant "some people incorrectly view"

[haughty sapphire]

fair, ppl who havent studied cs theory dont know better

[ember nimbus]

ik people who have studied cs theory and don't know better

[haughty sapphire]

ig cs education is getting more high level so ppl dont learn low lvl stuff as much

[heavy shadow]

guys is it hard if i become a designer while learning scripts

[final dragon]

i see no reason you cant learn both

a lot of game design is actually similar to how you think while scripting

[weary socket]

It's not code help if 2 guys aren't arguing about the most precise points in their dissertations

[haughty sapphire]

for someone starting out it shouldnt be their focus

[icy heron]

yes its code discussion not code help!!

[final dragon]

idk i think you can learn a lot about the other from learning both but thats mostly me speculating

[heady spire]

how can i play this animation only on the animator of the player that used the ability, the module is loaded when a player joins since its just for vfx and all players should see it. since its required on the client i figured to avoid the animation delaying on first-time use it loads the animation when the script is required. with how it is rn it plays the animation on all players (understandably). is there a way i can play the animationtrack on 1 player specifically who's passed in when the ability is fired?

wrong ss

the first one i tried but it didnt work cus playanimation isnt a thing lol

is there another way i can load the animation to avoid it delaying when the ability is first used

i can obviously do player.animator:loadanim:play in the vfx event but does constantly doing loadanimation not cause issues? ive heard theres a limit to how many u can load

[shy cipher]

type is already a built in function that returns the primitive type of any value, you shouldn't use this as a variable name

it can create conflicts

[heady spire]

oh thats why its blue

ill change that but do u know anything to help w the animation thing im asking

[shy cipher]

I ain't reading allat

fine I'll read

[weary socket]

Point proven!

[shy cipher]

I lowkenuinely can't understand what you're talking about sorry I'm very fried right now I watched an hour long video

[heady spire]

fairs

[shy cipher]

what are you trying to achieve

[heady spire]

in the script i have it doing local launchanim = localplayer.animator:loadanim(launchanimation) on the launch animation of the ability

then when i do launchanim:play() it plays on all players cus the script is requred by all players

i jus wanna make it play on 1 player using the local launchanim

is there a way to do that

[shy cipher]

sir you can format discord messages into code

[weary socket]

No, you're firing the remote to all players. Fire to only 1 player

And type is fine since its an argument, it will shadow the actual type func

[shy cipher]

yep but then you can't use the actual type function because it's redefined as something else in a local scope

@heady spire send your server side code

[heady spire]

na that script also handles the vfx n stuff so it has to

are u syaing i should have a seperate script to play jus the anim

[weary socket]

So send in the player that is casting the ability or whatever

Animate only if the localplayer is that player

Send the player instance or a user id

I do that a lot for this kinda stuff

[shy cipher]

but what's the server doing? I need to see if it's doing something like fireallclients()

[weary socket]

Sorry

Ypu are sending the player

[heady spire]

i have in the start of the script that it loads the anim to all players when its required is the main thing

[weary socket]

If localplayer == player then playAnim end

[heady spire]

cus i dont want any first time use delay

[weary socket]

PlayAnim is your code to play anim

[heady spire]

ok ill try it

[weary socket]

Ate you following a tutorial?

[heady spire]

im using packet and im lowkey new to scripting but it does fire to all clients by default i think

na

[shy cipher]

can you send the code inside the white script bruh

that's the server side

you want playanim() to only work on one targeted player right? instead of all of them

the code you sent only describes how the vfx is played by each respective player

not what's making all of them play it

[heady spire]

i doubt it will help its a really niche issue i could avoid by just doing loadanim on the player every time the anim is used but it will end up delaying when the ability is used for the first time which u dont want in a combat game

the whle script is long just processes the fireball projectile this is the start

[shy cipher]

I'm only interested in the part where you fire the remote

[heady spire]

vfxPacket can only do Fire or FireClient

its first line of the function

[weary socket]

Yeah you got the player caster and player target just use if statements for effects that only work on certain players

You should be doing fireAll in this case so that's good

[shy cipher]

what's the goal here though can you make that clear in a single message bruh

[weary socket]

I think its just a simple fireball spell that's sends a packet to all players to do vfx and anims and such

[shy cipher]

aren't they making it so that it's not making every player run the animation when it's played??

[weary socket]

Well they still need every player to make client sided effects for their fireball so fireAll is needed so each client can make these effects locally. But he needs to not do CastAnim:play() on the local character for each client

[shy cipher]

if you really want the fireball itself to replicate everywhere why not just use the server for that? the casting animation can be done by the player using just fireclient()

[weary socket]

Server to animate stuff isn't as smooth as client for animating. Animating as in tweening particle emitter properties, part frames etc

Cframez

[shy cipher]

also wouldn't that be an authoritative nightmare because you're trusting the client with the fireball's position and stuff and giving that to other players

that's heavy exploit material

[heady spire]

u know what its fine its hard to describe the issue cus its such a small thing with little impact

[shy cipher]

also the server can't see that you know

[heady spire]

i can just do loadanimation on the player thats passed in

[fading galleon]

is there someone who can pay a comission w Robux and ill pay him w paypal the devex amount?

[shy cipher]

anticheat wouldn't work because server can't see the fireball

[shy cipher]

you gotta sacrifice some stuff just to make your game less exploitable, and if you do want smooth vfx without the latency, you can have the server only do the authorisation and math while the clients do the vfx on their devices, that way you avoid the huge security issue and unresponsive vfx

[heady spire]

thats what i have right now, everything works perfectly and theres no huge issue im mainly just wanting a clean way that all clients see the animation/windup of the ability with no delay even when the ability is used for the first time

with how animations are normally loaded and the way i had it set up before there was a delay for the animation playing when an ability is first used and its fine after

[shy cipher]

there'll never be no delay, there has to be SOME latency in the name of a playable game without hackers (who are mainly kids using prewritten scripts with executors). I mean everything that happens on the server has measurable latency

[weary socket]

Yeah so for a windup effect for an ability the way you got it is pretty solid, in terms of server authoritative stuff, there's ways to do it, like if a fireball is launched and it goes in a straight line all you need to do is have the server send the initial pos and trajectory and send a packet for when it hits. So 2 remote event calls, you don't need the server to send the cframe of the fireball each frame

[heady spire]

yea i get that but i mean the animation itself stutters when its first used

[weary socket]

But that's for predefined paths, lots of abilities will have predefined paths so it is simplest way imo to keep it smooth and lower network traffic

[heady spire]

the vfx and authorization is all good i think i set it up cleanly. the fireball just follows exactly where the hitbox is in the workspace every frame so it lines up and visually hits

[weary socket]

Oh ok

[heady spire]

legit the only issue was the animaton tweaking when its first used and i want a way around that

[weary socket]

Wdym tweaking tho

Oh did you fix jt

[heady spire]

na

its fine i got a work around

[versed arch]

yeah, latency will always exist because it still takes time for your pc to send a signal to the server and vice versa and it usually takes from microseconds to a few miliseconds if it's not too heavy

[somber linden]

🥷 still butthurt holy take a chill pill bud 🤣

[light acorn]

Basically, whenever I shoot from a gun, a yellow ray (basically bullets) should come out of the barrel. When I stand normally and shoot, everything is normal, but when I move the yellow ray comes out of air, not the barrel. I have tried everything, but nothing works. What should I do?

[frigid wagon]

well how does the code actually shoot the bullets

[light acorn]

I guess it shoots from the barrel?

[frigid wagon]

what do you mean 😭

[light acorn]

Dude

[frigid wagon]

the way of it shooting

[light acorn]

I vibecoded everything

[frigid wagon]

Did you make it yourself

[light acorn]

Prompted myself

[frigid wagon]

Im not helping you with your slop ai code

[light acorn]

Imagine getting mad over ai

[frigid wagon]

fair btw

[light acorn]

Ai isn't gonna take your job

[tribal python]

😂

vibe coded everything

no wonder

[frigid wagon]

You can go ask ai to help with ur code

[tribal python]

😂

dude im the best coder in roblox

[frigid wagon]

Not even with your code

[quick quartz]

"Roblox scripter focused on advancement and discipline." yet u vibecode 😭

[tribal python]

im the terry davis of roblox

[frigid wagon]

WITH AIS CODE

[tribal python]

bro

@frigid wagon your code is garbage same as @light acorn

[frigid wagon]

who r u 🙏

[tribal python]

i bet @light acorn has better code than u

[tribal python]

;jo

😂

[light acorn]

Ragebait

[tribal python]

your worst nightmare bud pass along

ai solos you bro

[light acorn]

Soon or later the entire industry will vibecode

[desert sleet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1424775769451794636/1438892494963216435/5af2224e3799801836d5c0768ad82ea1.gif

[desert sleet]

Hey guys

[tribal python]

SILENCE SUB 5

all these vibe coders

pissing me off

@frigid wagon stop vibe coding

its not good for society

you are killing polar bears

[frigid wagon]

Who r u bro 😭

[desert sleet]

Vibe coding can only take you so far

[tribal python]

@light acorn do u believe this guy

[quick quartz]

ai might be used to help but it doesnt mean using ai to make the entire code which u are clearly doing if u cant understand it

[desert sleet]

How are you supposed to ascend beyond ai's capabilities

[light acorn]

Absolutely not

[tribal python]

@light acorn this @frigid wagon is a stupid vibe coder

am i right

😂

filthy clanker helper

[light acorn]

Yes

[tribal python]

clanker helper :rolf

rofl

😂

i code with ray casts bro @frigid wagon get out my site

sight*

do u know typing yet?

bro prob dosent know what a function is

😂

@light acorn whats you opnions on filthly clanker helpers like @frigid wagon

vibe coders so weird

am i right

[light acorn]

Who the fuck even writes code manually in the big 26

[hearty lion]

You're weird

[tribal python]

uhhhh we do...

wait wait

i thought @frigid wagon was the vibe coder

@light acorn YOU BETRAYED ME

YOU BOTH ARE FILTHLY CLANKER HELPERS

[hearty lion]

Deep in our souls, we are all vibe coders

[tribal python]

YOU TOO???

MIAMI DUDE

IT DIDNT HAVE TOO END LIKE THIS

[hearty lion]

No, I'm not a vibe coder

[tribal python]

you just said u where u filthly vice coder

get out of my site peach role

[hearty lion]

No I didn't

[quick quartz]

ur game is gonna have so many bugs

[tribal python]

.

[tribal python]

localstring()

[hearty lion]

I said "deep in our souls" "we are all vibe coders"

[tribal python]

https://tenor.com/view/tuff-sick-wow-wowsers-minecraft-gif-10059021701103936359

when i inject luau code into u

😂

POV: EVERYONE HERE ARE DIRTY VIBE CODERS

except for ME

the best programmer in the world

i worked on luau btw

i made the language

if u ever need help lmk

the lua creator is my dad

luau is one of my many side projects

[light acorn]

Yeah, but scripting takes so long to learn and it's so confusing

[quick quartz]

bro its lua

[tribal python]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-what-wait-what-huh-playboi-carti-gif-17221740

its luau bud

i learnt it in a day

[light acorn]

It's still very hard

[tribal python]

because im superior than u

im faster

im stronger

im smarter

I AM BETTER

I AM BETTERRRR

[quick quartz]

its only "hard" because ur too lazy to bother trying to learn it

[tribal python]

yeah fr

this is like epokgamer laziness worser

[light acorn]

I spent 2 hours

[tribal python]

u gotta pack it up dude

[tribal python]

yeah

[quick quartz]

wow so much effort

[tribal python]

do u know how to print young man

😂

helloworld("print")

ohh crap

[light acorn]

Yeah, should I learn it 9 hours straight then?

[tribal python]

@light acorn do u wanna see my hitbox system

i made

[light acorn]

Yes

[quick quartz]

u dont gotta spend 9 hours straight even js 30 minutes a day is enough bro

[tribal python]

im a begineer

i spent 30m only

[tribal python]

k

i only learnt luau for like 2 days

and im almost done

maybe ur js my doggy

[light acorn]

But you also need to know advanced Scripting and physics which is used often

[tribal python]

not hard dude

[glossy wave]

have fun

[tribal python]

js be my doggy

[quick quartz]

and u can learn that over time spending like 30 minutes a day just looking into it

[tribal python]

im already finished almost

because im superior

[glossy wave]

no

[tribal python]

than anyone here

😂

[glossy wave]

physics scripting son..

[tribal python]

physics = fly(1.29, 82,29)

fuck outa my way bro

😆

[glossy wave]

ye

see this guy already knows

[tribal python]

come to me when u reached my level

[quick quartz]

lmao

[tribal python]

i made luau

[glossy wave]

sorry king

[tribal python]

IM THE SON OF THE LUA CREATOR

IM STRONGER

IM SMARTER

I AM BETTER

omds its just so easy

[somber vault]

isn't lerp like cframe

[icy heron]

If game then physics = max

[tribal python]

hyprland enjoyer?

😮

i/use/arch/btw

OH

[weak radish]

somebody realised they were wrong

[hearty lion]

River WM lowk on top

[feral solstice]

Any advanced scripter here?

[hearty lion]

Me

[weak radish]

it says you are in the bio

[feral solstice]

Not yet, im intermediate-advanced

[feral solstice]

Dm

[icy heron]

No

I use kde

[icy heron]

Sorry to disappoint bro

[tribal python]

do u use arch at least

[icy heron]

Yes

[tribal python]

cachy os better

https://tenor.com/view/trollface-troll-face-terror-png-troll-face-troll-face-phonk-troll-face-png-gif-9455696315481948297

[icy heron]

Id use endeavour

but I didn't know ABT it when I started

yes I haven't reinstalled Linux in like 374 days

[tribal python]

do u use sober on linux

[icy heron]

🙏

[icy heron]

mhm

only way to play roblox on Roblox I think

[tribal python]

is it safe

ppl say u can get banned for it

so i lowk js dont use it

but is it myths

[icy heron]

Roblox tolerates it

if you get banned then it's a mistake

[tribal python]

vinegar is also good?

[icy heron]

yuh, it's really buggy from what I've used, but it works

[tribal python]

bro i have dualboot rn js for roblox

🥀

[icy heron]

me when Roblox updates and sober is gone for a week

[tribal python]

😭

[tribal python]

whats the best distro your opnion?

[odd lark]

bro

[icy heron]

any arch derivative (especially nyarch) or pop os

[tribal python]

yeah..?

[wise turtle]

i dont trust sober

[icy heron]

I would daily boot nyarch if I wanted to reinstall

[tribal python]

pop os

https://tenor.com/view/flight-reacts-flight-surprised-shocked-gif-14940640833910619525

i didnt rlly like it tbh

[icy heron]

your gonna lose your mind when I tell you I also like manjaro

[spice cypress]

Vinegar only works for studio

[icy heron]

arch better but still

[tribal python]

arch is cool

but too hard to use for a freshie like me

ill upgrade to it later

[spice cypress]

I use arch 😛

[icy heron]

are you a femboy yet

[spice cypress]

No

I am gay tho

[icy heron]

damn

guess it went that way instead

[spice cypress]

Meh, there's still time

U never know

[tribal python]

bro

hyprland is soo cool

soo cool

[icy heron]

I dislike it

too many buttons

[tribal python]

i spam cmatrix and fastfetch

and

lavat

[tribal python]

nah its lowk tuff

[icy heron]

don't forget sl

and pipes

and bonsai

[tribal python]

calm down bro i js hopped on linux for like a month only

bro when i went to school and had to use my macbook instead i got fastfetch on it

🥀

[spice cypress]

Too many buttons?

[waxen edge]

how can i organize alot of scripts

[tribal python]

use linux

[wise turtle]

ew

[tribal python]

say sorry.

linux is kew

linux is power

LINUX I FUTURE

right @icy heron

[wise turtle]

NO

BAD

[tribal python]

say sorry now.

https://tenor.com/view/pout-anime-pout-fairy-tail-pout-lucy-pout-gif-17524635

[nocturne onyx]

how do I make UIStrokes smaller depending on your device's resolution? I noticed GUI with a UIStroke looks horrible on small devices but amazing on larger ones

[tribal python]

use linux

[hearty lion]

Can't

make your gui without UIStroke if possible

[nocturne onyx]

ah

[hearty lion]

If you really want to use uistroke though, and you really need it to be smaller depending on resolution

a script can automatically scale it

[nocturne onyx]

lowk might try that

[hearty lion]

or you could design your UI to not use UIStroke, which is better

unless you need some sort of animated stroke that changes colors or sum like that

[nocturne onyx]

I mean I'm making some low poly, cartoonish ui which heavily depends on strokes

[quick quartz]

i use a script to change my ui stokes size based on device

[opaque thistle]

yk that strokes have a property to scale their sizes right?..

[void ermine]

how do i save a user's inventory when they leave

[void ermine]

bro just scale it?

[quick quartz]

it doesnt change per device does it????

[hearty lion]

Wait they do?

Must be an update, last I remember they only have a thickness property that uses offset

[quick quartz]

i thought this too

[mellow lagoon]

my scripter application got declined for "Inadequate technical" what does that mean?

[opaque thistle]

yea they have a new property called strokesizingmode which switches between offset and scale

1 offset is equal to like 0.05 scaled

[deft ibex]

any scripter wanna colab

or work together

or wtv u say

[inland dragon]

on what

[deft ibex]

a game

[inland dragon]

sure

[deft ibex]

ok I dmed u

[cursive nexus]

My game btw

[onyx swallow]

nice

[ashen birch]

Does anyone here code in VCS

[jovial moat]

I do, what's up?

[ashen birch]

just wondering, why do you use it instead of built in

[hearty lion]

Built in?

[ashen birch]

I love the look of it so much

[ashen birch]

I mean just on studio

[hearty lion]

Because Git is standard
Because even if Roblox doesn't work, your repo'll still be accessible
Because there's version control superior from studios

[jovial moat]

Assuming you're using Rojo to sync, Rojo creates a source of truth on your file system instead of Studio. This means you can take advantage of version control (branches, commits, etc) with Git, customize your editor with VSC extentions, get improved linting and autofill, use a package manager like Wally, build your game locally (for a fully managed workflow), use other transpiled languages (like Roblox-ts), use documentation generators (like Moonwave), and more.

[hearty lion]

oh you mean VSC instead of VCS

[jovial moat]

Yes

[ashen birch]

yes

is it hard to setup?

[hearty lion]

Nope

[jovial moat]

The hardest part is learning how it works, but once you understand it, Rojo is pretty easy (as long as you're using Luau, and not Typescript)

[ashen birch]

is there alot of stuff you have to setup every time you open a new file

[jovial moat]

No

[ashen birch]

or is it just in the beginning

[jovial moat]

The only setup is making a new project

Which takes like

5 minutes? Maybe 10 if you're slower?

Assuming you know how it works

[ashen birch]

thats alot of minutes

[jovial moat]

It's a one-time thing

You only do that when you make a new game

[hearty lion]

Well thank goodness you don't make 100 games

otherwise that'd be 10000 minutes

[polar rain]

woah

[ashen birch]

is there anything I can watch that will show me how to set it up

[hearty lion]

Look up a video for setting up rojo and vsc for Roblox

Make sure they aren't out of date

[ashen birch]

ok

do I need any other plugins?

[wise turtle]

https://youtu.be/IJDg6tRJmHo?si=z-G7zWFf7hhfMK5U

[hearty lion]

Aside from Rojos?

I don't think so

[jovial moat]

Learn selene for VSC. It's a really good Linter. Also on VSC, get Luau Language Server for proper autofill.

[ashen birch]

what does that even mean

linter

[jovial moat]

Look it up

[polar rain]

woah

[hearty lion]

woah

[candid fox]

Pretty sure it just tells you errors in your code

[hollow turtle]

old news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiNFEpWB21A

claude is the new wave of studio development

[candid fox]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1435362206551375894/1435363840744362104/attachment.gif

[hollow turtle]

claude fully coded a front page game in 4 days btw https://youtu.be/roDlRGAxDKI?t=387

yo im kirkenuinely gonna send this to claude opus 4.6 and see what i get

[stray coral]

yo would any of yall recommend a entity component system for a fighting game? ive been using it alot and was wondering if anyone has another approach i can look into

my usage is pretty much just a entity class with a bunch of component classes like health, spell casting, stamina, movement, etc

[iron kraken]

no

[iron kraken]

first thing u wanna ask urself is why

not just cuz u feel like it

ecs is basically only going to help if ur looping through a bunch of objects at once such as with npc pathfinding

[hearty lion]

🥀

[fierce hearth]

look what i found

[iron kraken]

🥀

[hearty lion]

No.

just wrong.

[iron kraken]

then what do u use it for?

other than for performance benefits

[hearty lion]

You can build a whole game with ECS

not just a single system

[iron kraken]

ok

so what benefit though?

organization benefit?

[hearty lion]

Benefit over what?

[iron kraken]

well why would you use a system for no benefit

ur just doing more work then

because technically it would be easier to just use objects at that point

[hearty lion]

Yes, building a game with no paradigm at all is much less work than ECS

[iron kraken]

simmer down buddy

https://tenor.com/view/ai-chinese-cat-dancing-gif-5511841866443076101

you dont know usmf

[hearty lion]

OOP has its problems

There's a devforum post explaining ECS and its benefits over OOP, if you're interested

[hasty mesa]

you can use oop with ecs an ecs componet could be an object

[hearty lion]

Sure, but whenever there's a need to group data, a table's good enough

[iron kraken]

doesnt matter bro

start from simplest thing then work ur way up

instead of doing stuff cuz its cool and hip

[steady wren]

which is the best way to do a knockback system?

is using linearvelocity

or idk

assemblylinearvelocity

or body

🤠

[civic garnet]

whichever but the easiest would be assembly

[steady wren]

whichone do you recommend more

[civic garnet]

just use the one you want

[steady wren]

ok

[lofty terrace]

Can you send it if possible

[cyan lantern]

coders how would yall describe frameworks

[frigid wagon]

Reusable code

[cyan lantern]

good one

[verbal oxide]

hi (lvling up)

[cyan lantern]

1 million module scripts

[verbal oxide]

hi (lvling up)

[novel hamlet]

yo guys im trynna make a profile store but the value i have of clicks in the template module script doent really come up in game

can someone help

[icy heron]

What

[gilded shard]

how your scripts are set up, organized, and how they interact with each other

[regal salmon]

could you explain a bit more on what your goal is and what isnt working?

[novel hamlet]

i was tryiong to make a profile store and i made a module script for the data template

return {
    Clicks = 100,
    Inventory = {},
}

[novel hamlet]

so in game it shows 10 (it was 10 before) but after i changed it to 100 it still shows 10

[regal salmon]

data templates are only copied to a player's data once

[novel hamlet]

why doesnt it change the clicks in the leaderstats?

[regal salmon]

after that you need to change it in the actual datastore

either through a script or a studio plugin like DataDelve

[novel hamlet]

ah ok thanks for the clarification

[noble sonnet]

hey can somone lmk if they see any bugs in my system? https://www.roblox.com/games/119832175887449/FightTestV2-TestBranch

its a shooting/fighting system with inventory press tab and drag to use

[warped ivy]

anyone need a nitro prom link???

[drifting vault]

what is that supposed to be???

[stone fern]

Hey im a 3D modeler, texture artist, builder, and animator. I've been learning scripting for 5 days now and I'm having a little trouble. It's embarrassing to ask but would someone maybe tutor me and help me along the process?

[regal salmon]

running channel to channel just sayin shit 😭

[raven holly]

can someone explain coroutine pls 🙏
i watched brawldevs vids 3 times now
still dont understand it

[warm token]

basically using tasks but better

literally all you have to learn is the syntax

it's purpose is literally the same as tasks except more workability

if your asking why you should use coroutines instead of tasks

[dim compass]

actually tasks are built over coroutines lol

[warm token]

coroutines still better

tasks are like...

well you can't yield them

but the reason people still use tasks is because they're a lazy ahh and need to get stuff done

unless the situation is more complicated

then use coroutines

[iron kraken]

Then explain bro

[lean ocean]

you cant yield a task.spawn?

🤕

[warm token]

i don't see any other way without task.wait or without actually pausing them by doing coroutine.yield inside a task.spawn, which is basically using coroutines anyway

[hasty mesa]

you can use coroutines with task

and coroutine.yield is literally yielding

you should be using some task functions over coroutines functions

like spawn instead of resume

[warm token]

which is what i said

also

i was just giving the difference between the two

ik they can be used together

[hasty mesa]

well coroutine.resume is arguably worse then task.spawn for most scenarios

[warm token]

i see

[hasty mesa]

the only thing better is for micro optimzations and getting a return value from coroutine.yield which very few people utalize in the first place

other wise in roblox's env it gaves a worse error output and can cause hidden bugs where the code is inf yielded

[fallen token]

i wanna learn lua from scratch what are some best ways i could? I do have experience in coding such as software development and web development.

[cerulean perch]

local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local TweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local Packages = ReplicatedStorage.Packages
local Classe = require(Packages.Classe)
local LemonSignal = require(Packages.LemonSignal)
local Highlight = script.Highlight
local UiText = script.InteractText
local Ui = Player.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("Main")
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local Interact = Classe.meta({} :: {
    Model:Model,
    highlight:Highlight,
    interactionUi:TextLabel,
    interactionKey:Enum.KeyCode,
    onInteraction:LemonSignal.Signal<>,
    MaxDistance:number,
    interactionName:string,
    hoverTween:Tween,
    mouseConn:RBXScriptConnection,
    inputConn:RBXScriptConnection,
    hovered:boolean,
    paused:boolean,
}, {})

type Self = Classe.Self<typeof(Interact)>
type ISelf = Classe.ISelf<typeof(Interact)>

function Interact.construct(self:ISelf, Model:Model, InteractionKey:Enum.KeyCode, InteractionName:string, MaxDistance:number)
    self.Model = Model
    self.interactionKey = InteractionKey
    self.interactionName = InteractionName
    self.MaxDistance = MaxDistance or 10
    self.hovered = false
    self.paused = false
end

function Interact.init(self: Self)
    local hl = Highlight:Clone()
    hl.FillTransparency = 0.6
    hl.Enabled = false
    hl.Adornee = self.Model
    hl.Parent = self.Model
    self.highlight = hl

    local txt = UiText:Clone()
    txt.Visible = false
    txt.Text = `[{self.interactionKey.Name}] {self.interactionName}`
    txt.Parent = Ui
    self.interactionUi = txt

    self.onInteraction = LemonSignal.new()
    local tweenInfo = TweenInfo.new(
        1, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine,
        Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, -1, true)

    self.hoverTween = TweenService:Create(hl, tweenInfo, {FillTransparency = 0.8})

    self.inputConn = UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function(input, processed)
        if processed or self.paused then return end
        if not self.hovered then return end
        if input.KeyCode == self.interactionKey then
            self.onInteraction:Fire()
        end
    end)

    local mouse = Player:GetMouse()
    self.mouseConn = mouse.Move:Connect(function()
        if self.paused then return end
        if not self.Model then return end

        local target = mouse.Target
        local isOver = target ~= nil
            and (target == self.Model or self.Model:IsAncestorOf(target))
        
        local modelPos = self.Model:GetPivot().Position
        local camPos = Camera.CFrame.Position
        local magnitude = (modelPos-camPos).Magnitude

        if isOver and not self.hovered and magnitude <= self.MaxDistance then
            self.hovered = true
            self.highlight.Enabled = true
            self.interactionUi.Visible = true
            self.hoverTween:Play()
        elseif not isOver and self.hovered then
            self.hovered = false
            self.hoverTween:Pause()
            self.highlight.Enabled = false
            self.interactionUi.Visible = false
            self.highlight.FillTransparency = 0.6
        end
    end)
end

function Interact.pause(self: Self)
    if self.paused then return end
    self.paused = true

    if self.hovered then
        self.hovered = false
        self.hoverTween:Pause()
        self.highlight.Enabled = false
        self.interactionUi.Visible = false
        self.highlight.FillTransparency = 0.6
    end
end

function Interact.resume(self: Self)
    self.paused = false
end

function Interact.destroy(self: Self)
    self.mouseConn:Disconnect()
    self.inputConn:Disconnect()
    self.hoverTween:Cancel()
    self.highlight:Destroy()
    self.interactionUi:Destroy()
    self.onInteraction:Destroy()
end

return Classe.build(Interact)

thoughts?

[remote phoenix]

just start making something

[heavy shadow]

guys

what can i experiment using math and return

[dim compass]

gambling

[rapid verge]

procedural terrain generator using math.noise

[subtle fractal]

Made this

206 days ago

https://pastebin.com/ysfwSbLq

[warm spindle]

Fractal noise is way better

[dim compass]

fractal noise is just layered perlin noise is it not

[heavy shadow]

can a begginer like me build that

[frigid wagon]

Well can you?

[heavy shadow]

what even i procedural terrain generator

[noble sonnet]

hey can somone check out my gun / inv system lmk if they find any bugs?

[heavy shadow]

ohhh

thats why its called like that

fractal noise or perlin

whats this code for for x = 1,100 do for z = 1,100 do local height = math.noise(x/10, z/10) * 20 end end

[dim compass]

calculates height using perlin noise

[versed arch]

i mean... sure. i might help.

[noble sonnet]

bro your the best

[heavy shadow]

can i even experiment that if i only learned parameters and return?

    local result = a + b
    return result
end

myResult = add(2, 3)
print(myResult)``` this is only the example of what i learned

[thick crater]

i guess but you won't make anything 'meaningful' in Roblox Studio

[heavy shadow]

so i should still try and learn it myself?

well i guess so

cuz i learned while true do myself on functions