code-discussion

[dry sleet]

Wait that’s a good idea

[marsh osprey]

rpgs are easy

only hard part is world building

[crystal moat]

Channels & Categories
• Public and private channels
• Well-organized categories for clarity
• Custom permissions for every channel

Roles
• Properly configured role permissions
• Reaction roles
• Self-assignable roles
• Info/mention roles
• Mute and jail roles

Safety & Moderation
• Rules and guidelines setup
• Secure channel and role permissions
• Anti-spam and flagged word filters
• Basic moderation system

Extras & Engagement
• Onboarding and server guide
• Community features enabled
• Ticket system
• Giveaway system
• Custom welcome messages

…and other custom features depending on what your server needs.

I focus on making servers that look clean, run smoothly, and help communities grow.

DM me if you're interested or have questions.
**Currently accepting payment in Robux or game revune. 500-1.5k

[quick anvil]

Hi everyone. How can I send a message to the channel #scripter-hirable

[crystal moat]

i think u do bot commande i am new so idk

heheh

[haughty sapphire]

no rpg games are difficult, the systems r not super difficult to implement but they have a TON of systems so ur code needs to be scalable

[void tusk]

rpg games can be dead simple

the real complexity comes from content

most wanna make an mmorpg without realizing how much you need to put into it

[haughty sapphire]

yea thats kinda my point

[void tusk]

rehashing rewording redoing

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1056156791303569408/1462453076060278971/image.gif

[coral coral]

does anyone want to duo or sm

[winged crest]

Duo how so. Although I'm not even that advanced at scripting yet

[coral coral]

aii

[winged crest]

rn im just tryna master oop and backend stuff

[dusk pagoda]

guys quick question what do you guys suggest me to freelance on?
3d modeling
video editing
web design

i dont like to code ngl i find it boring

[weak flax]

I am making a collecting seashell game, and like when i hold "E" to try to collect it, it doesnt go into my hotbar/inventory, nor it doesnt dissapear, if you canhelp me join https://discord.com/channels/211228845771063296/1138239812239888535 I wont be talking just help me how to do it pls

I am making a collecting seashell game, and like when i hold "E" to try to collect it, it doesnt go into my hotbar/inventory, nor it doesnt dissapear, if you canhelp me join https://discord.com/channels/211228845771063296/1138239812239888535 I wont be talking just help me how to do it pls

[void tusk]

why

[fair topaz]

yo

why is the input action service so ahh

[ember anvil]

cuz it's input action service

[mental prawn]

what do yall think about claude code?

[deft ibex]

You already know it, day 3 of learning to script. I made script for a non existent game called welcome to hell. Its pretty advanced and I had ai help me with my other script that I made today. Ik there is a better way to optimize and organize this so please help me.

[grim hemlock]

The bottom one is crazy lmao.

But uh. Looks good i guess. Probably should change like a ui text or smth instead of using only print statements, but looks good.

Also, im pretty sure roblox won't really allow that kind of stuff now that im looking through the print statements lmao

[inland dragon]

This wouldnt be practical when a real user is testing it
Print() function only executes in the output of roblox studio, also known as the console of Roblox.
For all players to see this they would need to press F9 on their keyboard (PC players) to see the console, which would allow them to see the console then
However obviously this wouldnt be practical since not much people know about the console. Firstly, i would recommend switching to a gui-based version of this code obviously when you learn how to. Dont rush it.

Then for the rest of the code, i'll first show you what i would have done then tell you what the changes are, in a seperate message though due to discord's character limit

local randomNumber = math.random(0, 100)

task.wait(1)
print("Hello player, welcome to hell. Please wait while I evaluate if you are truly supposed to be here.")
task.wait(1)

if randomNumber <= 10 then
print("You are supposed to be in heaven, go to that door over there.")
return
end

print("Right where you are supposed to be, let me get the level ready for you.")
task.wait(1)

local hellLevels = {
{ max = 20, msg = "You are a scammer, you will go to the poor mans hell" },
{ max = 30, msg = "You are a theif, you will go to the theifs hell" },
{ max = 40, msg = "You are a child abductor, you will go to the child abductor hell" },
{ max = 50, msg = "You are a ||||||, you will go to the |||||| hell" },
{ max = 60, msg = "You are a murderer, you will be sentenced to eternal stabing torture" },
{ max = 70, msg = "You have commited a massacre, you shall watch your family and friends die in the same manner you took so many lives" },
{ max = 80, msg = "You have Murdered the defenceless, you too will be murdered bare, naked and afraid" },
{ max = 90, msg = "You have commited a heinous act that shall not be named, you will be made to suffer the same fate" },
{ max = 100, msg = "You have started a war where 50% of all mankind died, we shall not speak of what will happen to you" },
{ max = 101, msg = "You are the worst of the worst, the baddest of the bad, you are david bazucki..." },
}

for _, level in hellLevels do
if randomNumber < level.max then
print(level.msg)
break
end
end

This is the code i'd personally use, its far more optimized and cleaner. Firstly you dont need to create a variable called HeavenLevel, you can litterally just use the reference and not waste memory for a variable. Then for the task.wait(1) * 2 and print function thats fine. Then the updated code, it checks if the reference of heavenlevel from your other code is true or not and if it is, it will print out the statement...

[modest hound]

do i make a local state machine or use attributes from server

[inland dragon]

(Print out the statement)...and return it, where return function ends the code entirly.

Then all the other variables are put into a dictionary, then looped through a for loop where its then checked with conditionals and if the random number is less then the level.max then it will end the for loop and code @deft ibex

[heavy elk]

Maybe use some framework so you can easily replicate to client

[undone imp]

to make a role chosen gui animation like mm2, do you use a scrolling frame or UI page layout?

[modest hound]

with 1.6k line server i dont think i wnna do it directly from there

😭

[heavy elk]

There are libraries like replicated registry which I have just installed I think it might work (haven’t seen the api) look it up and see whether it fits you

[modest hound]

send me it

[heavy elk]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/100-replicatedregistry2-insanely-simple-and-easy-server-client-synchronized-table-registry/4074705 here you go

[sullen fox]

oh i didnt know

[errant raptor]

is anyone familiar with firebase and can help, ill pay.

[slender cave]

For what usage

I have experience creating chatrooms and such with firebase

[errant raptor]

my site is getting a lot of reads, and my current dev is saying itll cost 150-300 dollars to fix it.

[slender cave]

Turn on caching

If there are alot of images, compress them

Or even invest in a VPS for cheap

A VPS was the one of the greatest and best things i've ever invested in

[errant raptor]

i have 8 vps

[errant raptor]

i dont think thatll fix the issue completely

[slender cave]

Is caching turned on for the site

[errant raptor]

how can i check that

i paid for everything, im not a code guy

[slender cave]

It'll reduce server load by 50%-90%

Go to network in the dev tools

reload page

[willow maple]

Should i keep this or

[slender cave]

click on ur main page request

[willow maple]

Change the icon to this

[slender cave]

look for headers like cache-control, cf-cache-status, x-cache

[errant raptor]

is this in github or what 😭

vercel

idk man

[slender cave]

Nope, just do Ctrl + Shift + I

[errant raptor]

ill send u a dm

[warm spindle]

Make the +999mil/sec be bigger

[vernal peak]

is sun animator a virus

[willow maple]

Aightt

[sturdy knoll]

local Cat = script.Parent
local humanoidRootPart = Cat:WaitForChild("Head")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
    local closestPlayer = nil
    local shortestDistance = 25
    
    for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
        if player.Character and player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
            local distance = (player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - humanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude
            if distance < shortestDistance then
                shortestDistance = distance
                closestPlayer = player
            end
        end
    end
    
    if closestPlayer then
        humanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(humanoidRootPart.Position, closestPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
    end
end)

```i made a cat npc that's head follows the player, but the ears don't, does anyone know how i'd fix this?

[weak radish]

update the whole model, not just humanoidRoot part

[round rapids]

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Cmdr = require(ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("CmdrClient"))

Cmdr:SetActivationKeys({ Enum.KeyCode.F2 })
``` (CmdrClient in StarterPlayerScripts)

local ServerScriptService = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
-- xxxxxxxxxx is just userid's of the admins
local ADMINS = {
    [xxxxxxxxxx] = true,
    [xxxxxxxxxx] = true,
    [xxxxxxxxxx] = true,
    [xxxxxxxxxx] = true,
}

local function isAdmin(player)
    return player and ADMINS[player.UserId] or false
end

local Cmdr = require(ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Packages"):WaitForChild("Cmdr"))

Cmdr.Registry:RegisterHook("BeforeRun", function(ctx)
    local plr = ctx.Executor
    if not plr or not plr:IsA("Player") then return end
    if isAdmin(plr) then return end
    return "No permission"
end)

Cmdr.Registry:RegisterHook("AfterRun", function(ctx)
    print(ctx.Group and ctx.Group.Name, "executed")
end)

local function registerCmdr()
    Cmdr:RegisterDefaultCommands()

    local folder = ServerScriptService:FindFirstChild("CmdrCommands")
    if folder then
        Cmdr:RegisterCommandsIn(folder)
    end
end

local function init()
    require(script._RemotesSetup):Init()

    require(ServerScriptService:WaitForChild("QuestSystem"))
    require(ServerScriptService:WaitForChild("BoostSystem"))

    registerCmdr()
    print("Game Ready")
end

local ok, err = pcall(init)
if not ok then
    warn("Init failed:", err)
end

-- Testing
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    print(plr.Name, "Admin:", isAdmin(plr))
end)
``` so cmdr works sometimes and sometimes it does not its like random is it the order of initilizations? (CmdrServer in ServerScriptService)

[modest hound]

show other code

[round rapids]

which on the ones requierd in the script>

?

[broken grove]

how does it not work

as in what doesnt work

[dreamy locust]

whats best ai for scripting

[stable verge]

I like gemeni

[round rapids]

So it does work sometime when I playtest but sometimes if I try a command wither it’s custom or default it will just not work

[dreamy locust]

same

[broken grove]

anything in output

[round rapids]

Not at all everything seems to be loaded I’m suspecting a race condition somewhere

[broken grove]

do commands that dont require admin work

[round rapids]

Yeah they do work all the time, but the admin ones sometime in play test it works sometimes it does not without changing a single line, I still can’t figure it out

[broken grove]

where do you set admins

[astral atlas]

guys can soemone give me idea for the scripter hd aplication, like system to di cause idk what to do

[broken grove]

is that second script responsible for handling admin permissions

[round rapids]

The admin Roblox users?

[round rapids]

Oh yes yes

[broken grove]

does anything else use BeforeRun

[round rapids]

The first one is just to pop up the command UI in a client script

[round rapids]

No there is only one hook

Can task.spawn affect the code?

[broken grove]

where did you use task.spawm

[round rapids]

So i got 3 task.spawn

task.spawn(function()
    task.wait(2)

    print("[NPCManager] ⌛ Running")

    while true do
        task.wait(SPAWN_INTERVAL)

        if npcCount < MAX_NPC then
            local spawnPos = getRandomSpawnPoint()

            local closestPlayer = nil
            local closestDist = math.huge

            for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
                local char = player.Character
                if char and char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
                    local dist = (char.HumanoidRootPart.Position - spawnPos).Magnitude
                    if dist < closestDist then
                        closestDist = dist
                        closestPlayer = player
                    end
                end
            end

            local npcType
            if closestPlayer and closestPlayer:FindFirstChild("Data") 
                and closestPlayer.Data:FindFirstChild("LuckyBoost") then
                local luckyLevel = closestPlayer.Data.LuckyBoost.Value
                local chances = NPCData.GetAdjustedChances(luckyLevel)
                npcType = NPCData.RollTypeWithChances(chances)
            else
                npcType = NPCData.RollType()
            end

            local npc = createNPC(npcType, spawnPos)
            if npc then
                addNameTag(npc, npcType)
                npc.Parent = ActiveNPCsFolder
                activeNPCs[npc] = true
                npcCount += 1
                addToGrid(npc)

                task.delay(1, function()
                    if npc.Parent and npc:GetAttribute("State") == "Idle" then
                        startWandering(npc)
                    end
                end)
            end
        end
    end
end)

task.spawn(function()
    print("[NPCManager] ⌛ Grid Running")
    while true do
        task.wait(1)
        for npc, _ in pairs(activeNPCs) do
            if npc.Parent then
                updateGrid(npc)
            end
        end
    end
end)```

task.spawn(function()
    task.wait(4)

    print("[FollowersSystem] ⌛ Running")

    while true do
        task.wait(FOLLOW_TICK)

        for _, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
            local userId = player.UserId
            local list = followers[userId]
            if not list or #list == 0 then continue end

            local char = player.Character
            if not char or not char:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
                continue
            end

            local playerPos = char.HumanoidRootPart.Position
            local total = #list

            local previousPos = lastPlayerPos[userId]
            local isMoving = false
            if previousPos then
                local delta = (playerPos - previousPos).Magnitude
                isMoving = delta > IDLE_THRESHOLD * FOLLOW_TICK
            end
            lastPlayerPos[userId] = playerPos

            local cleaned = false
            for i = total, 1, -1 do
                local npc = list[i]
                if not npc.Parent or npc:GetAttribute("State") ~= "Following" then
                    table.remove(list, i)
                    cleaned = true
                end
            end

            if cleaned then
                total = #list
                PlayerDataManager.SetFollowers(player, total)
                syncCount(userId, total)
            end

            for i, npc in ipairs(list) do
                local humanoid = npc:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
                if humanoid then
                    local targetPos = getFollowerPosition(playerPos, i - 1, total)
                    humanoid:MoveTo(targetPos)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end)```

[stable verge]

So does the script not know whether your player is admin or not?

[broken grove]

just use task.delay instead of task.spawn(function() task.wait() end)

[round rapids]

sometime it does sometine it does not

[round rapids]

lemme try

[broken grove]

neither of those are related to cmdr

add a print in the beforerun callback

[stable verge]

Might be race conditions. Check if the script detects the player each time u try in the is admin function

[broken grove]

see if it fires

[valid terrace]

does anyone have any challenges for intermediate developers to do?

like a list of projects that slowly build more skill over time

[visual tree]

Idk

[broken grove]

what do you define as a intermediate developer

[valid terrace]

im going up the learning curve

where low level projects become boring

im looking into starting more advanced projects like physics based projectiles, raycast suspension systems, more techy stuff yk

gun systems

[visual tree]

What languages do you know?

[valid terrace]

im talking about luau

I know luau the best

some C

[visual tree]

Oh nice

[valid terrace]

I know python syntax

not really relevant though lol

[remote phoenix]

there's like the "I think I know this stuff" and there's the "I know this shit like the back of my hand" and it's hard to gauge which one someone is off the rip

[visual tree]

I'm currently learning python lol

[valid terrace]

I know all the basics like the back of my hand

datastores, server/client communication, raycasts, arithmetic logic, string manipulation

if that sorta gives you an idea

[round rapids]

found the issue it was a race condition as @stable verge said and as weird as it sounds, task.spawns and delays were the issue

[round rapids]

try to make your own dream project samples

lets say you make an RPG game

[valid terrace]

already tried making a football fusion type game

I couldnt find any reliable information on forums to continue

basically searching in the woods at night without a flashlight

[remote phoenix]

imagine you make your dream RPG and nobody likes it and nobody cares and you wasted 5 years and enter a state of extreme depression 💀 🤞 🥀

[valid terrace]

awh

[round rapids]

happens but thats not what i meant tho

so first make a sample inventory

then sample combat

then sample quest

etc.etc..

[valid terrace]

combat is kinda ez

ill just do what tsb did and raycast slightly forwards

and detect a hit

[remote phoenix]

realistically all of the experience and assets gained would benefit you greatly, and you will have proved to yourself that you have what it takes to make anything

[round rapids]

and slowly you try to make them better and better with better code, visual things better ui etc...

once you learned those combine them to make a mini game

than focus on the mini game and make it better

there is a dev called tokyospliff, who does OpenGL/Vulkan/C++ lives on youtube

[valid terrace]

im talking about roblox studio

[round rapids]

lemme finish HAHA

[valid terrace]

oh mb

[round rapids]

when you watch his recent lives and you see what he did is so good and you think his an actual pro dev who did many projects

but actually he did what I said

his biggest project is his first project

he first did small stuff

and as he learned he tried to upgrade his project

also it might seem simple fps that he made but Vulkan and OpenGL with C++ is a hard ass thing

[full maple]

guys following problem, in my game you are driving different carts, now recently i added a shooting system that basically just spawns an explosion when it touches something, all fine with that but now the bigger the cart is, the more parts are affected by the physical explosion thus leading to bigger carts having greater knockback which is unfair, what would be a efficient way to fix this? my carts are basically all based on a 4x7 just built different things on top of it

[stable verge]

noice

[weak radish]

is the game made with free models

[full maple]

no i built them myself

[willow maple]

Chat is 5 credits per day gonna help me

[weak radish]

i meant the scripts

[full maple]

no i made them myself, the scripts are not the problem

[weak radish]

I was just wondering

[remote phoenix]

just make it not based on the amount of parts..?

[full maple]

i didnt make it be based on the amount of parts, im using the basic roblox explosion

i probably need to create some own knockback thing and let the explosion just be visuals

but that sucks

[vapid dagger]

help ;-;, i have this 2d camera smash bro's thingy. it had many bugs so i told chatgpt to fix it and he made it worse help pwease:
LocalScript Camera thing
-- Camera Script (LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts)
local Camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local CameraOffset = Vector3.new(0, 50, -150) -- Camera will be 50 units above and 150 units behind the player
local SmoothSpeed = 0.1 -- Smoothness factor (higher = slower, lower = faster)

-- Function to update camera position
local function UpdateCamera()
-- Calculate the target camera position based on the player's position and fixed offset
local targetCameraPosition = HumanoidRootPart.Position + CameraOffset

-- Smoothly interpolate the camera’s position towards the target position
local currentCFrame = Camera.CFrame
local targetCFrame = CFrame.new(targetCameraPosition, HumanoidRootPart.Position)  -- Make camera face the player

-- Smoothly move the camera towards the target CFrame
Camera.CFrame = currentCFrame:Lerp(targetCFrame, SmoothSpeed)

end

-- Run the camera update every frame
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(UpdateCamera)

and there is a movment script too but i cant send it.

[merry shoal]

Why this looks like ai

[merry shoal]

Make explosion client replicated if possible

[vapid dagger]

i said it chatgpt bugged it all

can u help :(

lol

DM?

[merry shoal]

Im on phonr its unreadable

[vapid dagger]

uh

i'll send u docuement

[brave flax]

add a codeblock bruh

[merry shoal]

Fr

[vapid dagger]

uh me?

[brave flax]

yeah

[vapid dagger]

it doesnt let me

[brave flax]

son

[vapid dagger]

says "u cant send somehting i forgot

[brave flax]

just type three of those `

[vapid dagger]

oh yeah

[brave flax]

and the start and the end

code

[vapid dagger]

i made a document stupid me

[merry shoal]

Type lua after first 3

[vapid dagger]

`-- Camera Script (LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts)
local Camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local CameraOffset = Vector3.new(0, 50, -150) -- Camera will be 50 units above and 150 units behind the player
local SmoothSpeed = 0.1 -- Smoothness factor (higher = slower, lower = faster)

-- Function to update camera position
local function UpdateCamera()
-- Calculate the target camera position based on the player's position and fixed offset
local targetCameraPosition = HumanoidRootPart.Position + CameraOffset

-- Smoothly interpolate the camera’s position towards the target position
local currentCFrame = Camera.CFrame
local targetCFrame = CFrame.new(targetCameraPosition, HumanoidRootPart.Position)  -- Make camera face the player

-- Smoothly move the camera towards the target CFrame
Camera.CFrame = currentCFrame:Lerp(targetCFrame, SmoothSpeed)

end

-- Run the camera update every frame
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(UpdateCamera)
for the camera thingy`

uh

[brave flax]

-- Camera Script (LocalScript in StarterPlayerScripts)
local Camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local CameraOffset = Vector3.new(0, 50, -150)  -- Camera will be 50 units above and 150 units behind the player
local SmoothSpeed = 0.1  -- Smoothness factor (higher = slower, lower = faster)

-- Function to update camera position
local function UpdateCamera()
    -- Calculate the target camera position based on the player's position and fixed offset
    local targetCameraPosition = HumanoidRootPart.Position + CameraOffset

    -- Smoothly interpolate the camera’s position towards the target position
    local currentCFrame = Camera.CFrame
    local targetCFrame = CFrame.new(targetCameraPosition, HumanoidRootPart.Position)  -- Make camera face the player

    -- Smoothly move the camera towards the target CFrame
    Camera.CFrame = currentCFrame:Lerp(targetCFrame, SmoothSpeed)
end

-- Run the camera update every frame
game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(UpdateCamera)

like this bruh

[merry shoal]

Much better

[vapid dagger]

alright can u just come in dm im tired of slowmode

[brave flax]

3 at the start

not only 1

[vapid dagger]

alr

[brave flax]

this script is some bs

[vapid dagger]

i know lol

chatgpt "debugged it" as he said

he just made more bugs

@merry shoal script in dm

[full maple]

chatgpt is ass use a different ai atleast

you still have the original

[vapid dagger]

yeah

[full maple]

whats the problem with your script like whats happening what you dont want to

[vapid dagger]

any other good ai's?

[wide horizon]

claude

[vapid dagger]

the charater is noclipping from parts and falling out of the map

alright i'll see claude

[merry shoal]

that had nothing to do w camera ??

[full maple]

exactly

its probably your other script

[vapid dagger]

i sent movment script in dm

yeah

its too long

i cant send file

[merry shoal]

How long

[vapid dagger]

2400 words

[full maple]

damn

[merry shoal]

I cant bother reading😔😔

[vapid dagger]

;-;

[full maple]

thats a long ass script

[vapid dagger]

it's almost all -- stuff

yeah

chatgpt sucked

[wide horizon]

scripts are measured with words now?

[vapid dagger]

i'll talk to mr claude opus

[full maple]

ah wait i didnt even noticed that

[merry shoal]

Lmao

[wide horizon]

back in my day, we used lines

[merry shoal]

I got sent this

Cold code

I fj fja

[full maple]

image cant load 🙁

[merry shoal]

It says heres the movement code and the message is a codeblock that has these words in seperate lines w 1 space between them "lua i' fj fja end"

[full maple]

haha

[pale pine]

anyone know how this was done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lYVsEmNYQ

[full maple]

some guy commented this

glass with erased vertex alpha

[hard garden]

hola guys

when to use promises?

[hard garden]

looks weird, roblox doesn't do this.

[weak flax]

can someone pls help me

[cold pebble]

u cant tp in studio

try http

[weak flax]

ik

i already tried in game

[south bridge]

spammer

[cold pebble]

did it work

[weak flax]

iuts saying this

[sullen island]

Is anyone experienced in cheat development

[hollow frost]

the error means theres no .OnClientEvent on your client script (when the server fired at client), the prints dont mean anything theyre just roblox error

[cold pebble]

thanks mr genius

[hollow frost]

im explaining to him?

[cold pebble]

u obv asked chatgpt

[hollow frost]

dude wdym

i typed that in like a minute

[cold pebble]

i can tell

[jovial moat]

How

It doesn't look like AI

In fact it's partially wrong

[cold pebble]

he said "the error means" thats common chatgpt pattern

[hollow frost]

yk what im gonna show you my chatgpt history but dont have perms

[cold pebble]

and chatgpt is so buns at lua

[jovial moat]

That's common human pattern not AI wtf are you talking about

[cold pebble]

let me show u smth

hold on

[hollow frost]

where

[south bridge]

likely spammer

[jovial moat]

I literally had to install the iLoveSpam plugin rq cuz that popup was bothering me lmao

[south bridge]

idk why it's not like a one time disable

[jovial moat]

It's AI... see? The AI can word it differently!!!!!!

[hallow dawn]

is making your own services/packages the way to go before starting commissions and making games?

[broken grove]

discord caught ragebaiter

[hollow frost]

damn didnt even realize

[jovial moat]

You can make your own libraries, sure, but you can also use established, existing ones. It depends on what problems you're solving.

[broken grove]

ok "likely spammer"

[hallow dawn]

aight

[jovial moat]

An AI would also caption a GIF like that, you're AI 🙄

[cold pebble]

No

[jovial moat]

Only an AI responds like this

[jovial moat]

I'm probably talking to an AI

[cold pebble]

No

[jovial moat]

See? That's an AI pattern. You're AI.

[cold pebble]

local = Script.Parent

local function ontouchevent(player)

playerHealth = playerHealth - 23

if

[hard garden]

spammer

[cold pebble]

playerHealth = playerHealth + 25

[cold pebble]

nvm im done

gotta back to developing

[rose root]

Yo mia

could you take a min to look at my new game

https://www.roblox.com/games/110762125278130/1-Speed-Sword-Escape

if u dont mind

its slopmaxxing i admit

[jovial moat]

I'm good

[cold pebble]

i bet the UI goes like

[rose root]

gambling included

[cold pebble]

i think u js downloaded an uncopylocked game then changed all the gp ids

[rose root]

W ragebait

but nah i coded ts in 3 days

[cold pebble]

how many players are playing it rn

[rose root]

15

[cold pebble]

[rose root]

Bro's just bored and ragebaiting

fairs

[south bridge]

yeah i think it needs more mono bro

totally not invasive at all

[rose root]

what about adding PHONK

i am a genuis i am aware

fuck i spelt genius wrong

[hollow wind]

guys how do games like fisch implment anticheat for their fishing systems do they handle the time and stuff on the server? if so how do they do it fast enough that its not delayed because im having that trouble with my minigame

[vernal peak]

yo

Server starts round → records os.clock()
Player presses Space → FireServer()
Server calculates: pressTime - startTime = offset
Server checks: is offset within the valid window?

[hollow wind]

nvm i figured it out

[vernal peak]

server gives the speed multiplier to client and client does the speed of the ui itself

[regal salmon]

that doesnt account for ping

i believe you can get the players ping though

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/Player#GetNetworkPing

[hollow wind]

well ima go to sleep i got sats tommorow

[pliant girder]

can someone help me debug code dealing with an upgrades price?

[tough belfry]

hi can anyone enligthen me , I have set the friction of my part to 0 with the environment and have given it a random push while eliminating air resistance and yet my part seems to lose speed and stop ? Am I doing something wrong with the environment ?

[compact echo]

guys why when i add weld to the part but when i move the part the weld keep disappears

[normal iris]

bleh

[weary socket]

I think your friction weight needs to be maxed too

[turbid raptor]

quick question what are the basics i need to know before i can actually start making simple stuff that doesnt suck like beginner level but still decent

[compact echo]

...

[willow maple]

Gng wth

[regal salmon]

bad thumbnail? 🤔

[willow maple]

Yeah

[warm herald]

.

[normal iris]

lol

[upbeat anchor]

runservice loops, modulescripts and tweening

maybe some physics if you're good at math

minimal hard coding

yeah

[willow maple]

Does anyone have 0.0001
Eth 😭

[regal salmon]

?? 💀

what does bro need 21 cents for

[willow maple]

I have shiba coins nd i have to exchange it to ltc so i need sm eth to transfer

[fringe chasm]

OOP

networking libraries

transpiled python libraries

[regal salmon]

what 💔

[fringe chasm]

type annotations

wait maybe they are easy

[regal salmon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/861804711370948608/1474192668132245515/smirk.gif

[willow maple]

Can anyone help me w python basics

I am tryna learn it for my school exam 🥀

I have file handling databases sql connection and sm more basic shi

[velvet tapir]

I learned from ChatGPT

[regal salmon]

https://www.learnpython.org/

if you have questions you can probably ask them here or in #code-help

i know python so i can atleast help if im in chat lol

[willow maple]

Aightttt

[olive summit]

ur book is enough

cbse right

[willow maple]

Its chopped

We r using sumita arora

[olive summit]

i think thats enough

cbse python is easy af

[willow maple]

Yehhh but sumits arora is hard

Cbse js hv basic shi

[fringe chasm]

loll

idek how people fail innit

[willow maple]

Lmao real

[long rune]

yo help, how do I make like something map Voting system

[wraith ingot]

Guys I know python where do I learn Roblox scripting so I can make games of my own

[heavy shadow]

just the simple rpg like those old ones

[cobalt loom]

Scripting

[potent maple]

Is it actually worth using Module Scripts for uis?

[regal salmon]

yeah

makes it cleaner

[regal salmon]

keep a list of players who voted for each map, and pick the one with the most players in it at the end

[potent maple]

And I should keep only functions here? For example, if I want to change the text label when an attribute changes, I should track this in a LocalScript and then just call a function from the ModuleScript?

[regal salmon]

i personally like to have an initialization function in my ui modules that sets module-level variables for each ui element im going to use a lot

basically the only thing my localscripts do is call that init function

and the module handles everything else from events to element management

[lime axle]

depends
if your going for SSA then you would do everything in modules

[subtle fractal]

absolutely

[potent maple]

I recently saw an incredibly good guide about organizing things on yt, but I didn’t understand some parts. So, can I track an attribute change in a ModuleScript and then call a function inside it to update the text label? And in local script just keep init function

[regal salmon]

that's how i do it

[subtle fractal]

at the very base
have a table that stores the names of players who voted for a map. Kinda like this
Votes[MapName] = {plr1,plr2,plr3}
Voted[MapName] = {pl1,plr2}

then compare the number of people who voted.

if you only had 2 maps and didnt plan to add more, just do
local VotesMap1 = #Votes[Map1]
local VotesMap2 = #Votes[Map2]

then compare.

but for more scalable systems iterate over the maps that are being voted for, then compare their votes

Voting systems arent hard at all

making them look good and feel responsive is what takes them to the next lkevel

[subtle fractal]

-- your callback
local function updateLabel(textLabelObject)
textLabelObject.Text = "Health Changed!"
end

Player:GetAttributeChangedSignal("Health"):Connect(function()
updateLabel(yourTextLabelInstance)
end)

[subtle fractal]

Not really just organising things but delving deeper into the world of signals, remotes, and efficient communication between game systems

Its a really cool thing to master

And a very good example is

[heavy shadow]

local debounce = false
touch = 0

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    local human = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if not human then return end
    if debounce then human:TakeDamage(20) return
        
    end
    
    debounce = true
    
    touch += 1
    local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
    if player then
        print(player.Name .. " Touched the Object!")
    end
    if touch >= 5 then
        for i = 0,2,1 do
            part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(math.random(0,255),math.random(0,255),math.random(0,255))
            task.wait(1)
            end
    end
    
    task.wait(2)
    debounce = false
end)``` does this work

[lime axle]

your debounce becomes false
human would never take 20 damage

[regal salmon]

test it

[heavy shadow]

oh i forgot local on touch

[heavy shadow]

they take damage if its on cooldown

[subtle fractal]

To update a coins ui, instead of checking the player's data every frame/second/continuously,

send a signal whenever the coins value in the player's data changes.

I.E
--example function

local Signal =...

function InventoryService.Add(Item, Amount, PlayerId)
    GlobalInventory[PlayerId][ItemName] = Amount
    Signal:FireClient(GlobalInventory[PlayerId][ItemName], Item)
end

in client

Signal.OnclientEvent:Connect(function(ItemAmount, Item)
    ClientInventory[PlayerId][Item] = ItemAmount
end)```

And theres a simple example for you

@potent maple

And it goes even deeper

We dont call InventoryService.Add in client

WEe send a request to server to modify inventory

[fair shoal]

has anyone made like a definitive slop game framework

[subtle fractal]

This is a tiny bit of server authority

[subtle fractal]

I mean we all have

[fair shoal]

no i mean like

heres like 50 features every game has toggle them on and off depending on the game

[subtle fractal]

We all have made features every game has

but the question is

[fair shoal]

who's we

[subtle fractal]

have we made it a framework?

[fair shoal]

ive been manually making shit for like

[subtle fractal]

U have never made a datastore wrapper?

[fair shoal]

4 months

[subtle fractal]

U have never made a signal wrapper?

[fair shoal]

no i stole leif's and it works nicely

i just use goodsignal

[subtle fractal]

Yeah we learn from others

[subtle fractal]

Just make your own to learn

[indigo ice]

How does one get the HD mascot owner?

[subtle fractal]

also i recommend lemonsignal

[fair shoal]

i cant do it better

[lime axle]

hey if you dont mind could u check dms

[regal salmon]

what?

[indigo ice]

The role

[subtle fractal]

sure i guess

[fair shoal]

its literally perfect why try to fix it

[indigo ice]

HD mascot owner

[fair shoal]

id just be rewriting it line for line

[regal salmon]

own a specific ugc apparently

[indigo ice]

Oh

[regal salmon]

the Meber ugc

[indigo ice]

ah

[indigo ice]

alr thx

[potent maple]

I'm just using attributes with profile store and init them on player join. And then just tracking attribute change to update ui element

[subtle fractal]

Yeah thats what im talking about

Tracking attribute changes is a really good mental model

most beginners(im not calling you a beginner) check the attribute every second

[potent maple]

💀

[potent maple]

I'm using attributes because it's way easier than for example asking profile store what's the current amount of coins

[subtle fractal]

Yeah

Personally i store a global dictionary keyed by each player's ID

then i jst initialize the registry on game begun

[green quail]

hey how do i upload a screenshot

[frozen swift]

Press the + button

[potent maple]

IS it a good way?

[subtle fractal]

I love the .RequiresPlayerParam

I actually need to implement that into my loader logic lmao

misspell @potent maple

Yeah looks good

[potent maple]

Just was making example to show you

[subtle fractal]

Yep looks good

An example of mine is here @potent maple

This one sends a REQUEST to the server

I havent done any validation on server though

Hence why its a prototype

so Lolesful and novinity dont come after me

BUT

for your case @potent maple

[fierce agate]

Hm

[humble maple]

should i release these MeshHandleAdornments in the devforums, the scripts are a mess so i might have to optimize them firsthttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1140635045871222924/1483614565034885212/Roblox-2026-03-17T23_53_10.718Z.mp4?ex=69be86fc&is=69bd357c&hm=35bb21c659d888deca0816c190841a26264c2d28af4eadcc000874b7495ba419&

[green quail]

but its just showing use apps no upload files

[frozen swift]

Next to the apps

U pc or mobile

[green quail]

pc

[hollow thicket]

local collectionSerivice = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local sppecialTag = collectionSerivice:GetTagged("Special")

local function Invisible()
    for _, tagged in ipairs(sppecialTag) do
        tagged.Transparency = 1
    end

end

Invisible()

collectionSerivice:GetInstanceAddedSignal("Special"):Connect(Invisible)```
chat i want to make part invisible for specify player why it not working

this is local script

[honest flare]

You only get tagged objects on

ce

[hollow thicket]

what ce

so the part suppose to be invisible on tagged object isn't it

[honest flare]

local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")

local function makeInvisible(instance)
if instance:IsA("BasePart") then
instance.LocalTransparencyModifier = 1
end
end

for _, obj in ipairs(CollectionService:GetTagged("Special")) do
makeInvisible(obj)
end

CollectionService:GetInstanceAddedSignal("Special"):Connect(makeInvisible)

[potent maple]

I love module scripts for ui 🤣 . I used to use just local scripts

[hollow thicket]

oh

[hollow thicket]

CollectionService:GetInstanceAddedSignal("Special"):Connect(makeInvisible)
this u prob need to change

[modern seal]

oooh howw dou use module for ui ??

[modern seal]

do youuu like break up each frame as its own module

[hollow thicket]

WHY IT NOT WORKING

THIS PART SUPPOSE TO BE INVISIBLE

😡

[dreamy warren]

guys do yk how to apply for hiring

[subtle fractal]

I need to dabble into ui more lol

Im mostly a backend engineer

but i need frontend skills

[dreamy warren]

hey nebular , do you know where can i apply?

[floral crown]

never really got the difference between backend and frontend for roblox tbh

[spark willow]

The b in :IsA(“basepart”) needs to be capitalised

[hollow thicket]

ig you

[elder niche]

why is every scripter i comm incapable of making ah orse systen

[floral crown]

an entire horse sounds like work lmaoo

[elder niche]

the assets are made

[floral crown]

do you mean with realistic galloping etc?

[elder niche]

mostly js the scripting side

[elder niche]

yeah

[floral crown]

yeah that does sound like work

[subtle fractal]

finally got this hitbox module working

now to implement server authority

[elder niche]

i already put alot of work into the assets

[potent maple]

UI Module (Init) and parent to it module of each ui

[dense spade]

it lags behind
is that supposed to do that?

[autumn venture]

I usually do a main ui handler for basic functions like the buttons, then each system gets it own module under the main one.

[subtle fractal]

no thats because i havent actually coded any timing, and set it to destroy after like 1 second

[versed arch]

yes, because the hitbox would be detected exactly once when it touches an enemy

[dusky rapids]

are the roblox menu and roblox chat part of the core gui

[willow maple]

Gng whats going on in here

[subtle fractal]

Is this where latency/lag compensation is used? or trajectory prediction

[nocturne quest]

is there a way to have more music stems come into play during gameplay or am i restricted to like 1 audio? what i mean is i have a track that starts out with a bass, and guitar comes in/fades out depending on the situation the player is in

[stone garden]

bro what, weld the hitbox to the humanoid root part, and use the Debris service for cleanup

[subtle fractal]

This helped ZERO

Oh my days

do you not understand

[stone garden]

i can show you mine, its the same system and its pretty clean

[cloud snow]

anyone here have a ready made drag strip working lights?

[subtle fractal]

sure

[stone garden]

look ur dms

[celest bloom]

its better not to use parts as hitboxe

hitboxes

[dense spade]

what to use then?

[subtle fractal]

iM NOT USING A PART

FOR THE LAST TIME

ITS A SPATIAL QUERY

BUT THEN WITH A VISUALIZER

[dense spade]

GetPartsInBoundingBox or smth called that?

[subtle fractal]

yes

[dense spade]

ive seen people do where they take the player direction and speed to offset the hitbox it doesnt lag behind

also some games just do hitbox on client and validate check on server

client hitbox feels super good

[subtle fractal]

yeah i wanna learn how to do that

[subtle fractal]

Ttas wat im doing

[dense spade]

i think u get the AssemblyLinearVelocity and multiply🤔

asking ai for the math works quite well most of the time

[subtle fractal]

k ty

[heavy shadow]

guys help

idk what im doing

local debounce = false
local touch = 0

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    local human = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if not human then return end
    if debounce then print("Still Cooling Down")
        task.wait(1) 
        return
    end
        
    
    
    debounce = true
    
    touch += 1
    print("New Object")
    if part then
        part:Clone()
        part.Parent = workspace
        
        if touch >= 5 then
            for i = 1, 2 do
                part.Color = Color3.fromRGB(math.random(0,255),math.random(0,255),math.random(0,255))
                task.wait(0.5)
            end
            part:Destroy()
            return
        end
    end
    
    task.wait(1)
    print("Debounce Unlocked")
    debounce = false
    
end)

[dense spade]

local ping = player:GetNetworkPing()
local velocity = rootPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity
local offset = velocity * ping

local hitboxPosition = rootPart.Position + offset

from ai btw

dont use blindly

might be bad code

[dense spade]

no one does when they are coding

[broken grove]

Math looks correct unless ping puts milliseconds instead of seconds

[subtle fractal]

Ok nice nice

[heavy shadow]

can you tell me whats wrong here

im trying to make a part clone when touched

[dense spade]

wait im on mobile,takes a while to read

u did part:Clone() but didnt put it in a variable

[broken grove]

What the

[heavy shadow]

ye i know its dumb

[broken grove]

Redundant for loop

[dense spade]

it got created only in memory
u need to assign the clone to a variable then parent that

local clonedPart=part:Clone()
clonedPart.Parent=workspace

[broken grove]

Redundant task.wait in a debounce if

[dense spade]

hes new,chill out

[broken grove]

Destroyed the main part

Colored the main part

[dense spade]

give him some chill,hes super new

like a week?

[broken grove]

Redundant if part check when you assume it exists already

[heavy shadow]

what

[dense spade]

also the code is so long,separate into small functions

[broken grove]

You dont need it part then

[ripe plume]

is there any specific reason why the curly brackets are there? imo it just seems unneccessary

[dense spade]

cuz roblox dumb

[ripe plume]

nothing else?

I mean the rgb vals arent like that

[dense spade]

idk actually

[ripe plume]

aah

[dense spade]

seems quite stupid for them

[ripe plume]

its cause X is one thing and Y is one thing but they have 2 vals each? is that it?

[dense spade]

its very annoying to copy and paste it in code

[ripe plume]

ik

[dense spade]

prob cuz its X has Offset and Scale
Y has Offset and Scale

[ripe plume]

yep

[dense spade]

prob the X and Y is an array

such a weird ahh thing in studio

[ripe plume]

would it be better if it only copied the numbers in your opinion?

[dense spade]

yes

it more convenient

[ripe plume]

I agree

[dense spade]

or allow code to accept the array

[ripe plume]

yeah

prob easier with the first thing

[autumn bone]

cus its a UDim2 value

[ripe plume]

yeah

[celest bloom]

was just telling the guy who was saying to weld it to the hrp

[dense spade]

UDim2.new({0,0},{0,0})
this should work in code

[celest bloom]

spatial queries

[deft acorn]

Is someone a free scripter ? I need to get one

[subtle fractal]

Yep turns out he doesnt know about spatial queries

[dense spade]

what if i want accurate sword,like only hurt characters that got touched by the blade

[broken grove]

Chat gpt

[deft acorn]

No

We want a real person

[dense spade]

im free

[deft acorn]

Bc chat gpt wont remember modules and stuff like that

[deft acorn]

Dms pls

[celest bloom]

then you would use raycasting

[dense spade]

feed it context everytime

[deft acorn]

I got free gpt

[dense spade]

nah i meant im free doing nothing rn but not free to work

[celest bloom]

also does this imply usage of touched

[long rune]

where can I see the animation Id for my npc animation?

[deft acorn]

Oh

[dense spade]

touched? no dont use touched

[deft acorn]

If its urs you go to anims

in studio

[celest bloom]

then what does it imply usage of
getpartsinpart?

[dense spade]

but that means i have to have a ray along the entire length of the blade?

[long rune]

none, its mine and I publish it doesnt show up

[autumn bone]

you could raycast

[potent maple]

Make me whole game and I’ll pay you 0.00001 robux

[deft acorn]

Its not here

[autumn bone]

but there's other ways to go about it

[dense spade]

spacing it apart too far would cause it to not hit some things too

[long rune]

where?

[celest bloom]

or you can just do a shapecast

[dense spade]

great deal!

[deft acorn]

Go on roblox website, create, creations, developement item and then animations

[deft acorn]

I could pay you 19 robux btw

[ripe plume]

what are your guys' worst complaints about making ui in studio

[dense spade]

but how would shapecast work in cases where two enemy is standing in a row and u slice thru them,only the nearest would hit?

[autumn bone]

it depends on how well done you want the game to feel

i'd personalyl create a hurtbox and a hitbox

[dense spade]

i have 1900 in my acc i dont need 19

[autumn bone]

using raycasting

[deft acorn]

Shh

19 is alot

[broken grove]

But 1% more...

[autumn bone]

but if ur not familiar with advanced raycasting it will be tweaky

[long rune]

not here too

[dense spade]

cant even buy a shirt in this economy

[celest bloom]

you can attempt a second shape/raycast after any hits

[deft acorn]

Lol

[deft acorn]

Then re upload it

[dense spade]

wdym advanced raycasting,its all the same?

[deft acorn]

I could buy a coffee

[long rune]

I did many times xD

[dense spade]

maybe u uploaded it to a group?

[long rune]

what group

[dense spade]

like a roblox group

is it called community now

[autumn bone]

i dont mean the raycasting itself is different, its the same stuff. i mean the system around it is more complex, like casting multiple rays along the blade every frame, tracking the swing arc so it doesnt miss, preventing double hits etc. the raycasting is simple, the implementation around it is where you can get advanced

[long rune]

no its for npc animation

[dense spade]

yea for double hits ill just keep track in a table during the swing and reset table each swing
also the dir of the ray can just be the Velocity of the blade cuz it moves right?

[shut sorrel]

when you align 2 GUI objects like frames next to each other but change the resolution of your window it makes them overlap by a pixel, canvas groups help but only for niche cases

pretty sure it's always been a problem with Roblox

[dense spade]

scaling,why is offset the default scaling
when i manually scale it should use Scale then only use offset when i specifically make it

[ripe plume]

when you change your res back is it fine again?

[dense spade]

or the fact that ViewportFrames has absolutely terrible graphics with bad performance

[shut sorrel]

Yes, even if you use scale or offset it like just guesses the nearest float value I'm assuming

[ripe plume]

ah I see, weird

[celest bloom]

its because roblox doesn't apply any postprocessing to viewports im pretty sure

[dense spade]

they should tho

[dense spade]

like it should be a feature that is turned off by default

[dense spade]

and have a warning saying it might affect performance when its enabled

[shut sorrel]

I wish they added background blur constraint for UI

[dense spade]

thats actually a good idea

[celest bloom]

itd still be way too expensive

[shut sorrel]

Instead of having to use something like neon parts close to the camera

[celest bloom]

probably will be added in the following few months

they're already implementing shadows so blur might not be that far fetched

[shut sorrel]

I blame mobile users for waiting so long for good updates

[dense spade]

i saw on devforum recently LiquidGlass module,it used glass parts to imitate the apple's liquid glass ui

[autumn bone]

that could work but it gets unreliable with fast swings or low framerates since the blade can skip over targets between frames.

[shut sorrel]

Yes that's just uses glass instead of neon but the problem with glass is you can't see decals/textures and surface/billboard guis through it

[dense spade]

those with low fps shouldnt play combat games

[dense spade]

the effect only works on pc cuz glass effects are super limited on mobiles

[dense spade]

mobile phones nowadays are as fast as a laptop and roblox doesnt let phones do high graphics

[autumn bone]

that's how you limit your playerbase and end up with low ccu

[shut sorrel]

I don't even use mobile Roblox, screen too small to enjoy and controls are usually awful

[autumn bone]

its your job as the developer to optimize your game and ensure it can preform well on regardless of the condition

[shut sorrel]

I make my games compatible with mobile but I would never prefer playing that way

[dense spade]

i get that but the current game industry doesnt understand it(im talking about AAA studios)

[autumn bone]

a more robust approach is to store the blade's position each frame and cast rays between the previous and current positions, so you don't miss anything in between.

[autumn bone]

i've worked on triple A games, and preformance costs should never occur from the scripting end of things.

preformance costs should only be a cost due to assets, in which typically you can add a setting for those with lower end PCs etc

[dense spade]

u worked on what game?

[autumn bone]

i'd rather not say here, take my word for it or don't

[dense spade]

oh well 🥀

[crystal moat]

anyone looking for a server manager

[dense spade]

bro is working for rockstar games and making gta 6

[crystal moat]

400 rbx s

[shut sorrel]

I find the most fun of scripting in trying to optimize complex systems, like the occlusion culling update was a huge announcement I've been waiting for for so long

[dense spade]

cant say cuz NDA

[autumn bone]

you know what's even harder then optimizing complex systems? balancing complex game mechanics.

[dense spade]

400robux per second

[celest bloom]

get rich fast 😱

[dense spade]

dont balance game mechanics and let the players have fun being super powerful(if its not a competitive game)

[autumn bone]

the trauma i felt while trying to balance complex game mechanics in a PVP game is unlike anything i've ever done

[autumn bone]

in my case i was referring to a competitve game being that it's a player vs player game

[dense spade]

oh yea i noticed the occlusion culling happen when i was on wireframe mode and saw a bunch of things just dissapeared

[shut sorrel]

like trying to balance classes in overwatch, it's a lot of trial and error and community and dev feedback

[dense spade]

i thought i misclicked a deleted a bunch of stuff

[celest bloom]

ctrl z was probably being spammed fr

[dense spade]

u make overwatch?

[shut sorrel]

No just an example of a class based shooter game

Like TF2 or Overwatch

[autumn bone]

yeah, subtle things such as CD differences, and so forth

especially balancing things when it comes to skill based mechanisms

like a character in the hands of a well skilled player could be super OP, but in the hands of a less skilled player feel really bad

finding a middle ground is so difficult

because you buff it for the average playerbase and now the playerbase that is highly skilled is just abusing it and it's op, you nerf it, and now that mechanic/character/wtvr is now garbage

[shut sorrel]

I worry about all that stuff last, it's the kind of testing you have to pay good players for

[dense spade]

how was ur journey to work at a game company? im about to go study in university and im hoping to get a job in a game dev studuo

[autumn bone]

real experience and portfolios takes you farther down then any formal education

[dense spade]

example?

[autumn bone]

even with the testing data, it's still difficult to make those choices as to where to draw the lines

i had such a traumatic experience with it, im glad i don't do that sht anyomre

[blissful arch]

So you didn’t get a degree?

[autumn bone]

I had a large amount of high quality testers at the time, and it was just a mess man still

[blissful arch]

Or if you did what was it

[cyan bobcat]

Guys is there a server for small commissions

[dense spade]

ignored🥀

[vernal gyro]

i think he doesn't wanna talk about it like he said

[dense spade]

im not even asking what game hes working on,asking how he got his job

[shut sorrel]

you don't need to waste money on a degree to learn the basics, start a portfolio of your best stuff

[autumn bone]

having a portfolio of games you've made/worked on will take you farther along, especially if they end up growing to gather a fanbase

[blissful arch]

But I’ve heard degrees make entrance (to the job) way easier

[dense spade]

would it even work if my portfolio was on roblox? or i need to make stuff on a real game engine like Unity

[dense spade]

a comp sci degree is still useful to have anywas tho

[autumn bone]

made a game with a very small team, worked on it for 2 years, it got popularity and people really liked it, eventually started recieving offers from game studios.

[signal valve]

is there something i have to do in order for Model.Primary part to bring every other part of the model when i reassign its location?

[dense spade]

damn how do i get ur life

[shut sorrel]

Indeed it is, it's a very competitive field though, I feel like computer science is falling off with all the lay offs and everything

[autumn bone]

it really depends on what your goal is

[blissful arch]

Broooo I’m split between comp sci or something more practical like engineering or bio

[ripe plume]

you can use setpivot (or setprimarypartcframe + welds but its deprecated)

[dense spade]

weld everything to the primarypart

[dense spade]

i want comp sci but everyone saying its cooked cuz of AI

[autumn bone]

comp sci degrees are one of the biggest wastes of a degree in my opinion

[blissful arch]

EXACTLY!!!

[dense spade]

i might even just a get like a specialist degree on AI

[ripe plume]

im gonna do computer engineering in august am i cooked guys

[autumn bone]

get a degree if you want to be a lawyer, get a degree if you want to be a doctor, get a degree if you want to do something like that in which a degree is actually critical.

why would you get a degree for comp science with all the resources we have today..

[blissful arch]

That’s hardware no? You shouldn’t be cooked

[dense spade]

would companies even take me if i dont have a degree

[autumn bone]

companies value real work experience and real portfolios more then a degree

[dense spade]

feels so wrong from what i heard from everyone in my life

[blissful arch]

Yea but like.. are you sure bro

[signal valve]

even if i used a weld constraint to weld the basePart to another part of the model it doesnt work

[autumn bone]

🤣 if you're not sure and are scared, don't go down this path. go down the degree route, and then struggle to find a job because you'll lack experience and real work portfolios, then you'll secure a low pay job where you'll be stuck for a few years until you build up some repuation

[ripe plume]

just do setpivot

[dense spade]

the other part should be unanchored

[ripe plume]

if you're just moving it do GetPivot then SetPivot to that * something

[dense spade]

could work but what if the model wasnt centered

[autumn bone]

depends on what your goal is, if you want to be a roblox dev stay roblox, if you want to expand then expand.

[blissful arch]

Ok ok I just gotta build an impressive portfolio before I graduate, and if I fail I’ll go a more traditional job

[ripe plume]

center it

[autumn bone]

if i'm a developer for a mobile phone game, i'm going to look for a mobile phone game developer.

if i'm a developer for a roblox game, i look for a roblox game developer. etc..

[dense spade]

i dont wanna be a roblox dev with how roblox been going down recently,the problem is that i cant figure out to make a game out of roblox cuz roblox made it so much easier to make stuff like assets

[autumn bone]

your portfolio and resume will take you farther then a degree,

when you self-teach yourself and learn yourself, you're not bound to any course outline or anything like that. you just keep growing and growing.

[dense spade]

even smth like servers which i dont have to think too much cuz roblox is so convenient

[autumn bone]

i know many computer science degree graduates, who are chumps in relative comparison to most people i know who are self-taught

[dense spade]

no like i meant what if the PrimaryPart isnt the center of model

[sand crag]

Can someone give me an idea on what to script so I can practice my scripting 🥹

[blissful arch]

Gun

[autumn bone]

yea networking is something you'll need to have a really good grasp on

[sullen fox]

if you want assets use sketchfab

[dense spade]

my worry is that rn AI is so popular that ive heard many with degree dont geg a job,ur saying that self taught can get a job

[sullen fox]

And just relearn how to dev on unity

[dense spade]

opening brackeys channel rn

[shut sorrel]

that and philosophy

[ripe plume]

choose another primary part? or just set an offset variable

[autumn bone]

with a degree you spend years of schooling, end up in a debt of money to the education and never build practical skills or a portfolio along the way.

with self-taught, you end up with no debt + actual resume and portfolio + projects you've worked on and improved on in the past.

[blissful arch]

Well I’ve asked a few people in real life recently and they usually say it’s gotten more competitive but it’s achievable as long as you aren’t someone who gets the degree with no passion for learning outside of school

[signal valve]

local model = game.ReplicatedStorage.Riese
    local base = game.ReplicatedStorage.Riese.PrimaryPart
    local base2 = base:Clone()

am icloning the right part?

[ripe plume]

uh what

[shut sorrel]

I don't think you need a degree to work in a good amount of jobs at Roblox in California, you just need a strong portfolio and practical life skills or a following
https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7685943

[dense spade]

i love learning new stuff outside of school,most of the things in high school was just me learning it thru youtube

[autumn bone]

AI is popular and AI is better at programming then you are and will be, what AI lacks in is creativity, you need to have a deep understanding of how internals and architectures work and the differences between them to be able to suggest the AI ways of doing things that it wouldn't think of itself, and it will handle the coding aspect of it but you will need to be therotically intelligent and creative at coming up with the ways it should go about things to improve effienciency

[signal valve]

this is to get the primary part of the model to be able to set its pivot

but when i setpivot it still only brings the primarypart

[ripe plume]

what are you trying to do?

[dense spade]

ive been recently coding with AI,was telling ai to write but i was there planning out the structure and the architecture for my combat system on roblox,quite efficient,did smth that took me a week to a day

[signal valve]

i have a tool that places a model wherever you click in the world and im trying to get the tool to spawn the entire model at that location but its just spawning the primary part

[ripe plume]

thats cause you cloned it?

[dense spade]

yes in that case just do model:PivotTo

[ripe plume]

the primary part not the model

[blissful arch]

Is this bad? I’m conflicted. I like using it for learning but I don’t see much wrong with doing this as long as it works

[cyan bobcat]

Guys how to make a system with like 5 different powers that each have a z attack and x attack

[dense spade]

idk,im not a professional here

[blissful arch]

Me too bro me too

[dense spade]

what the hell is z attack and x attack

[cyan bobcat]

You press z for an attack and you press x for a different attack

[dense spade]

our jobs taken by ai

[dense spade]

listen input for Z then do power

[blissful arch]

Hold your powers in a dictionary and map each thing to do another thing

[dense spade]

yea better way

yes why

[blissful arch]

😱 extreme trade offer incoming 😱

[dense spade]

ok...

[autumn bone]

that's how you're supposed to use em

you guide the AI, and let him do the manual slow writing part of it

and if he writes it in a certain way that you know is inefficient you tell him

like for instance in roblox, if the AI makes a script and it does smt like instance.new in the script, you'd tell it to instead use WaitForChild instead of creating it via the script to avoid race issues

etc

[elfin timber]

hsomeone give me 2-3 hour projects to make

[shut sorrel]

I've been coding for years without AI and once it came out it wasnt that good but just kept getting better and better, I make projects so much faster because I understand the fundamentals and how to explain to the AI efficiently what I want

[autumn bone]

AI mogs you sadly

AI mogs everyone

in 2023 it placed 2nd in the tokyo's programming tournament

hundreds of the worldest best programmers, and it placed 2nd. and since then it's gotten soooo much better..

[elfin timber]

ai is all of our king

[shut sorrel]

it does, it creates entire frameworks and does all the critical thinking you just have to guide it and detect errors and be it's human brain

[autumn bone]

it's like when chess engines entered the scene in chess

you just can't keep up with it

[elfin timber]

claude remade the game i spent 5+ hours on in 15 min and it made it better (besides needing some tweeks but thats obvious)

[dense spade]

the industry evolves

[shut sorrel]

I'm interested in how colleges are going to handle computer science if they're going to make AI part of the curriculum

[autumn bone]

it also lets you do things that previously were too tedious and trial end error by automating them via AI

[dense spade]

i like when ai finds bugs in my code before it even happens

[autumn bone]

like bro imagine an AI bruteforcing...

AI Hacking is the most dangerous shit there could be.

[remote phoenix]

AI hacking 💀

[dense spade]

but ai is slow right?

[shut sorrel]

what if it pulls a library from github that has a backdoor in it

[dense spade]

u check and make sure the ai isnt doing stupid shi

[shut sorrel]

AI isn't slow if you have a really good PC

[dense spade]

im poor 🥀

[shut sorrel]

NASA PC

[autumn bone]

ai is not slow at all what.

what makes you think AI would be slow

[shut sorrel]

24Gb of vram to run it locally is good

[dense spade]

rtx 4060 running an ai model was generating super slow

[remote phoenix]

you don't need to run models locally for coding

[autumn bone]

why are u running it locally

exactly LOL

[remote phoenix]

claude code has $20/month, copilot does too

[dense spade]

idk i just tried it cuz why not,i have an rtx gpu for a reason

[autumn bone]

ur rtx gpu isn't keeping up with the 1600 square foot computer labs they got running

[shut sorrel]

cursor IDE runs out of tokens how much I used it I have to run some agentic models locally

[dense spade]

imma make an ai server room when i get a job and a house

[dense spade]

not to forget the minecraft server with my friends on it

[autumn bone]

there's many ways to optimize token usage

[dense spade]

i heard using chinese works😂

40% token save

[blissful arch]

Yoo if ai mogs everyone r we cooked?

[autumn bone]

no, ai has no creativity.

[shadow sphinx]

is repeat or while true better practice?

[autumn bone]

does not think outside of the box

[willow maple]

Fuh naw gng this shi laggy

[dense spade]

ai gotta be scared of what im gonna do to it 😈

[elfin timber]

no, its jsut another tool

[autumn bone]

while true checks at the start, so if the condition were false it wouldn't run at all
repeat until checks at the end, so it always runs at least once

[dense spade]

i dont have dreams,i have goals

[autumn bone]

it doesn't make a difference otherwise

[shadow sphinx]

so if a playerstat called "time" goes up by one every second, repeat would be better to use?

[dense spade]

typa code i used to write when i first started

[hoary cedar]

No

[distant hamlet]

ur so tuff

[shut sorrel]

I used 500 million tokens in cursor IDE last year

[blissful arch]

Bro what even is creativity

[autumn bone]

ur cooked gang

[willow maple]

Chat how is this gambling animation

[shadow sphinx]

so while true do is better?

[autumn bone]

??

for a time stat example, repeat is technically more appropriate because you want the increment to happen immediately on the first frame without checking anything first..

[blissful arch]

Yea but it’s like you don’t reinvent quick sort, you just use it

[hoary cedar]

Yes. You're better off setting its condition to reflect the player's connectivity to the server so the loop naturally dies upon their disconnect. Otherwise you'll have to spawn the loop in a thread, cache that thread, and kill it upon their disconnect

[hoary cedar]

It does not take a frame to check a condition

A condition is going to be checked all the same, and so will a data write

Zero zum difference

[dense spade]

use page layout so it scrolls around like a slot machine

[hollow summit]

why is bro not screenrecording

[autumn bone]

ye ur right i didnt mean to say frame

i worded that badly. what I meant is that repeat guarantees the body runs at least once before checking, while while checks first. that's literally the only difference. the point still stands that they're not 'the same thing' because order of evaluation matters when your condition could be false from the start

[shadow sphinx]

Then wouldn't that mean that While true do is almost always better than repeat in a those types of scenarios?

[willow maple]

Cuz pc

[hollow summit]

wdym cuz pc

[hoary cedar]

It's not necessarily more performant, it's simply more appropriate

[willow maple]

I deleted my discord from pc

[hollow summit]

😭

[willow maple]

So if i screen record , i cant sen it directly

[hollow summit]

whyd u do that

[hoary cedar]

repeat-until loops are used to perform an operation once, and then see if it should be repeated

Try once, see if you should try again

[willow maple]

Too distracting

[hoary cedar]

Vs. See if you can try, then try

[dense spade]

who uses discord on mobile as primary

[hollow summit]

just dont get distracted

[hoary cedar]

A while loop can do both, so you never really need to use repeat-until

[shadow sphinx]

Alr thx

[hollow summit]

idk i have notis off for literally * anything * that is not important and im in like 100 servers with no issues

[willow maple]

Wow sherlock

[shadow sphinx]

Whats the point of using recursion if you have a for loop?

[remote phoenix]

recursion has very niche uses

[hoary cedar]

It's not just about for loops

[dense spade]

dont use recursion
just manually type out many times

[hoary cedar]

Recursion greatly simplifies algorithms with unknonw depths or breadths

But they have limitations compared to their iterative counterparts

[shadow sphinx]

the tutorial im watching is so confusing bro

two things do the same exact thing and yet they're somehow different

[remote phoenix]

if you don't feel you need OOP then don't use it

[dense spade]

explain

[dense spade]

agreed!

Ive seen some people use OOP on everything

[remote phoenix]

learn something when you first understand the problem it is solving

[hoary cedar]

They achieve the same thing, yes, but each approach has its pros and cons depending on the scenario

[shadow sphinx]

alr

[hoary cedar]

It's the same reason you use a phone over a laptop and a laptop over a phone

[shadow sphinx]

for loop does the same

[dense spade]

ah i see

[hoary cedar]

Yeah, this is total bullshit; you would never use recursion for this

[dense spade]

then we got apple putting a iphone chip on a laptop

[shadow sphinx]

oh...

[hoary cedar]

Recursion is an advanced topic. It's hard to demonstrate its versatility without dumbing it down

[remote phoenix]

I think this is just meant to showcase how recursion works, not what it's actually used for

[shadow sphinx]

so is the tutorial good..??

[hoary cedar]

It's good for introducing you to how recursion works

[remote phoenix]

no that seems pointless to me, why are they talking about recursion

maybe they lead it up to something that actually uses recursion

[shadow sphinx]

its a 20 minute video explaining every single beginner topic on roblox studio...

maybe because it's not enough time to explain it or smth

[remote phoenix]

imo if I were you I would just focus on trying to make one thing

if you don't know how to make anything yet

find something to make, start trying to make it

[shadow sphinx]

wym

oh

[floral crown]

its a good thing WE (yes everyone here) is in the business of making video games (an art form) not programming at tourneys

[shadow sphinx]

i understand most beginner topics besides tables and looping through tables

[remote phoenix]

sure but without any help or tutorials could you figure out how to make something like a gun system

[shadow sphinx]

no

not yet atleast

[dense spade]

get input,raycast,damage enemy
this is in simple terms

[remote phoenix]

lol

[shadow sphinx]

oh.

[remote phoenix]

but the point is you're using basic stuff that you already know, and figuring out how to apply it and actually use it

[dense spade]

one of the basic concept in programming is breaking down problems

[remote phoenix]

that's where I think finding a tutorial to make one specific thing is useful

[shadow sphinx]

alr

[remote phoenix]

tutorials that teach you to make one thing are fine bro 🥀

[dense spade]

except when u overuse it in a game and one thing doesnt work with the other thing

[subtle fractal]

literally why i need to switch to an IDE. Tired of this HUD clutter

[shadow sphinx]

whats the point of using Pairs if I can just use a for loop...

[remote phoenix]

and then you ask AI "how could I have done this better in the future, I'm a little lost where I went wrong"

[vernal gyro]

if i wanted to make a scalable ability system, wouldn't it be a decent approach to mainly rely on modules to store data for every single ability
instead of making a thousand remote events and scripts

[remote phoenix]

pairs is a for loop

[hoary cedar]

Here is a real-world example of recursion, @shadow sphinx: https://github.com/Ziffixture/Roblox/blob/main/Paths.lua#L222

[dense spade]

ah i never thought of putting output window vertically

[shadow sphinx]

but I can use the for loop without pairs and nothing will change

[remote phoenix]

okay try it

[dense spade]

yes do that

[subtle fractal]

uhh how else would u put it

[remote phoenix]

it's clear to me that you don't seem to know what pairs does, so try looking at roblox documentation for what pairs is for

[autumn bone]

there's a difference between a game programmer and a game designer lol.

games are an art form sure but YOU as the programmer aren't deciding the art side of things.. you're typically just programming what the game designer tells you to.

the creative vision, the gameplay feel, all that.. that's the designer's job. you're just making it work technically

that's exactly the part AI is getting stupid good at

[shadow sphinx]

my tutorial is genuinly just ass.

[remote phoenix]

but anyways I'll help you out real quick

wait

[dense spade]

ive been putting it horizontally below my game viewport this whole time

[remote phoenix]

let me do some tests

[subtle fractal]

And what engineers should get good at aswell

[floral crown]

no designer would ever be able to lay out a plan so perfectly an AI could replicate it (in code) lmao idk what you think ai is but its not that

[subtle fractal]

Yeah no

[vernal gyro]

could i run it all with a single remote event or is that far fetched

[shadow sphinx]

the shawarma kiosk game was made from mainly AI and it's one of the most popular games

[dense spade]

yea i would personally do that but idk tho

[autumn bone]

tell me you have no idea what ur talking about without telling me XD

[dense spade]

idk if there is any performance problems of running all the abilities thru one remote,it doesnt seem like a problem

[floral crown]

defers to personal attack because he knows he is wrong about ai but won’t admit it online

[vernal gyro]

aight appreciate it

[autumn bone]

yea i mean if you're good at your job, it's part of the skillset

[dense spade]

should ask someone more smarter here

[drifting solar]

whats the point of this message

[autumn bone]

it's not a personal attack, it's just pointless for me to argue with you if i can tell that you are not experienced in AI usage by the statement you made

[remote phoenix]

for i in myTable do
    print(i)
end
```"test1" "hello"
"test2" "world"```lua
for i,v in pairs(myTable) do
    print(i)
    print(v)
end
```"test1"
"hello"
"test2"
"world"

[subtle fractal]

caught bro hopping servers just to talk to me?
Im in awe

[floral crown]

cringe wont explain why i am supposedly wrong please stop bluffing

[vernal gyro]

i have enough performance issues as is map is large and unoptimized

idk i think it'll be aight

[dense spade]

u can do print(i,v) btw

[drifting solar]

u sent ts randomly with no context

what is the point of the message

[willow maple]

Can anyone pls suggest me a good thumbnail

[floral crown]

im also on the verge of going ide or dual monitor

[subtle fractal]

to show the clutter

[floral crown]

i need a larger table tho

[willow maple]

I am lowk pissed , i am getting like 1.5% ctr