General discussion

[jovial thunder]

i dont know exactly remember when qserf was first announced, but this has to have been in the first month or two

[toxic summit]

Opinions on quick sketch ?

and yes there's spikes growing out of it

Did another

[jagged grotto]

@toxic summit do you have a thread for your drawings they're cool as hell

[toxic summit]

I do infact, thank you : D #1278541850172723262

i deleted some art pieces from there that i didnt like so it may seem a bit confusing with some messages

[jagged grotto]

Thanks!

[shadow orbit]

unknown, the only surviving pic of the design was from wild in pre-2022 qsp, which means all other pictures of that specific topside are... LOST MEDIA?!

[tawdry fox]

ok so uhhh

i have an idea that might work

should i use piston converters for the reactor im working on or turbines

[main tusk]

Depends on the scale? Really stirrling generators are only good for their size, not necessarily their efficiency

If you can afford full scale turbines they would be more realistic

[main tusk]

Other than the fact they can run off pressure or just heated water rather than steam

They're not nearly as picky as turbines

[tawdry fox]

so heres a rig compared to the current scale of the reactor rn

[main tusk]

Yeah that'll be a full scale idiot generator thingy

Unless you had like a billion or a giant ass piston, stirrling would be unrealistic for this scale

[tawdry fox]

alrighty ty

[main tusk]

Then again any excess heat could be used with them

Like combined thermal units how the extra heat is used to generate some more power

[tawdry fox]

ill prolly use a combo system

potential power boost

maybe

[main tusk]

Instead of cooling towers the extra pressure left over could go to a stirrling generator array before then

[tawdry fox]

ah good idea

[main tusk]

Still you would need a way of cooling down the water but you would get the opportunity to use all the potential energy

[stoic tapir]

Honestly love some aspects of that building

[hoary nacelle]

It's BEEN a while since i didn't show my builds so
HERE'S ONE :D

[tardy ibex]

t80 BVM and t80UK also first time making a tank

[tawny flare]

car

[tawdry fox]

Dark helmet presents...

Alarms!

Are you too dumb to understand that the reactor is in a thermal runaway?

Yeah?

Well now with these silly devices, that isnt a problem anymore.

[paper falcon]

the beams look a bit very bright

[tawdry fox]

yeah because i was testing it with bloxstrap on

heres a studio ver

[ebon bear]

Beam look too bright

[paper falcon]

still too bright

[ebon bear]

beam like this will be better

also don't recommend to use bright color

look very ugly

[naive elm]

pacific drive :3

[naive elm]

volumetic version i made a bit ago

image I used

i love figma

[main tusk]

figma balls

[tawdry fox]

ill probably find another one or use that but i think the beams look ok for now

[empty lily]

no way greed from block ta-

[toxic summit]

[empty lily]

car

[toxic summit]

[tawdry fox]

blue larm

[paper falcon]

its still way too bright
you really need to turn down the transparency on those beams

otherwise you'd technically need to add a lot of fog to your game

[tawdry fox]

alright ill adjust it

[merry stag]

First time texturing a model

Thoughts?

[tawdry fox]

dunno what that it but it looks ok

oh keyboard?

looks good

[burnt salmon]

If you guys ever need to tween models, use this:

-- !strict

local function tweenModel(Model:Model, Time:number, TargetCFrame:CFrame, EasingStyle:Enum.EasingStyle?, EasingDirection:Enum.EasingDirection?, YieldCode:boolean?)
    local startCFrame = Model.PrimaryPart.CFrame
    
    local easingStyle = EasingStyle or Enum.EasingStyle.Quad
    local easingDirection = EasingDirection or Enum.EasingDirection.InOut
    local yieldCode = YieldCode or false
    
    local timeElapsed = 0
    local connection
    
    connection = game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function(deltaTime)
        timeElapsed += deltaTime

        local alpha = math.min(timeElapsed / Time, 1)
        local smoothAlpha = game:GetService("TweenService"):GetValue(alpha, easingStyle, easingDirection)
        local resultCFrame = startCFrame:Lerp(TargetCFrame, smoothAlpha)

        Model:PivotTo(resultCFrame)
        
        if alpha == 1 then
            connection:Disconnect()
        end
    end)
    
    if yieldCode then
        task.wait(Time)
    end
end

[paper falcon]

Is this run in a local or serverscript

[burnt salmon]

No

Well, you can do both

Server script

[paper falcon]

also isn't it more useful to just set TargetObject as TargetCFrame

cause otherwise you have to continuously make a new part just to set the location and rotation of where the model needs to tween to

[burnt salmon]

Depends, but yeah you could do that too

[paper falcon]

Correct me if im wrong but i don't think it depends at all
if you still want to use the CFrame of a different instance with transform data you just do [PartPath].CFrame

[burnt salmon]

Yeah I just realized that too

[paper falcon]

Cause i personally use a bit of a similar but diff system for modeltweening that coincidentally has single-part tweening built in as well (made by Pio iirc) which just has TargetCFrame as a parameter instead of targetObject

[burnt salmon]

To be fair, I just made this code for San to show her how to tween models

[paper falcon]

i mean i guess it does work but could also cause some flaws here and there

but oh well

everyone has their own ways of making it work

[burnt salmon]

That's the beauty of programming

I had to kinda resist myself not to overenginneer this code

[paper falcon]

I don't usually overengineer
just frequently put too much in one script

[kindred kettle]

if you wanted to texture something like that you could just vertex paint

much easier then fiddling around with uvs and textures

[merry stag]

I just used the basic blender texturing and it was pretty easy

[kindred kettle]

still!!!

vertex paint is AWESOME

[merry stag]

I'll research it

[naive elm]

put tweens in local scripts so you're not depending on the network

it makes the tween choppy if it's on the server

that's why old qserf doors sucked ass

my script is simple

local tween = Tween.new(script.Parent.Model, Tween.linear(2.5)) {
    [Tween.pivot] = CFrame.new(0 1, 0);
}

tween:PlayAndWait()

my network system also handles broadcasting tweens from server to client

network.handleTween(tween.broadcastable)

-- Client
network.handleTween += function(tweenData)
    local tween = Tween.from(tweenData)
    tween:Play()
end

[burnt salmon]

How does your network system work?

I would have no idea on where to get even started with making such a system

[naive elm]

it's just syntax sugar built on top of remotes

-- network.module.lua
return {
  myEvent = unet.net();
}

-- server.lua
local network = require(...)
network.myEvent("world")

-- client.lua
local network = require(...)

local function handler(param)
  print(`Hello, {param}!`)
end

-- To add a listener
network.myEvent += handler

-- To remove a listener
network.myEvent -= handler

it also works both ways

client to server and server to client

exact same syntax for both, compared to typical remotes where you have different events depending on the network side

also, when calling from the server, not passing in a player assumes all players

-- server.lua
-- Sends to all players
network.myEvent("world");

-- Sends to specific player
network.myEvent(game.Players.SGII2, "world")

-- Sends to several players
network.myEvent({ game.Players.SGII2, game.Players.OtherUser }, "world")

[fading spire]

Reminds me how I use funny Bytenet

[empty lily]

chat this fucking rots

[naive elm]

there'll still likely be workarounds

[gilded cedar]

its now tos to use textchatservice

which i think is ass

[naive elm]

bruh

[covert stag]

and you need to use it for stuff other than just chat

[carmine bronze]

u only have to use it as the backend

u dont need to use the same UI

still sucks

like for admin command announcements u could make a text channel and just send it through there
its like the same thing as a remote but also worse to use

[kindred kettle]

yeah

there is text

[frosty bluff]

THE ROCKET LAUNCHER GUN

[kindred kettle]

Ohhhh

[ebon bear]

wtf wrong with those mesh shadows

[kindred kettle]

Roblos

my guess is that uhm idk

[ebon bear]

thanks roblox for making the studio more better

ong

[kindred kettle]

try turning on double sided

Idk

roblox is poop...

[ebon bear]

replace roblox with EA

🤑

[ebon bear]

readd the shit again and now it work

thanks roblox

[kindred kettle]

Must have been the wind...

[tawdry fox]

any thoughts on the reactor lid?

i need to add bolts but i think its good, lmk what you guys think

[paper falcon]

bland, could use more detail

[main tusk]

Unlickable glass

[safe raptor]

i got a question, how do i remove these bounding boxes?

[sharp apex]

studio settings maybe?

like in File > Studio Settings

iirc theres some stuff relating to bounding boxes

[safe raptor]

im not seeign anything

nvm found it but it was off

[sharp apex]

those bounding boxes dont look default tho

are you sure it's not some plugin?

[safe raptor]

no i opened teh file and they were there

and they dotn apply to new parts either

[sharp apex]

weird

ive never seen bounding boxes like those

[safe raptor]

someone had expiranced this 5 years ago

[kindred kettle]

q

[copper marsh]

I believe you have Constraint Details turned on as well as maybe Show Welds?

if the grey outlines are welds you probably have this setting turned on, it's recommended to keep off

not sure if it's a studio setting that is showing them though, could be a plugin

but they seem like welds to me

[kindred kettle]

q

wip

[safe raptor]

They're not plugins I never added any plugins and it had been a couple months since I opened that file but once I get the chance I'll check what you said might be the problem, thanks much whether or not this works!

[carmine bronze]

receipt language?

[naive elm]

yes

[carmine bronze]

Fun

I think receipts are often overlooked

their kinda neat little things

[naive elm]

i havent implemented the compiling part of the language yet but I did make this one manually

[tawdry fox]

any suggestions?

other than me needing to add more detail

[sharp apex]

reminds me of a certain game where you dive...

[fleet zealot]

more buttons and make the buttons being pressed not side by side so it looks cooler 😈🔥🔥

[tawdry fox]

i think theres enough buttons for now

unless we want to add SCRAM confirmers

[fleet zealot]

im nkt shre u get it hold on

i give up tryinv to explain it nevermind!

[tawdry fox]

you go all the way from CR to the reactor to (planned, scram confirmers) to cr to scram

heres what it looks like rn

hm my sound mightve disconnected

strange

[tawny flare]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1242603154499960916/1303162514573492334/ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker.gif

[tawny flare]

gun

[naive elm]

https://codepen.io/SGII2/full/jOgveWm

[tawdry fox]

lites

[kindred kettle]

truly

i finished it but i forgot to post yup

[tawny flare]

how to model gun

[kindred kettle]

/e model

[tawny flare]

wow

[merry stag]

Did I cook?
I'm not really good at making chairs

[kindred kettle]

if you can sit on it did you really fail

[ebon bear]

why shiny metal

[naive elm]

qr code support

also did a major refactor

[tawdry fox]

thoughts on this level of light transparency?

[ebon bear]

Mid

[orchid topaz]

any recomendations on this door i made? :

[tawny flare]

door

thigmabob

they call it the pallet gun

because it shoots pallets

[paper falcon]

It's still way too bright
minimum transparency should be 0.8

[tawdry fox]

i'll do that for other ones but that environment will be well lit

[lusty walrus]

I seem to have somehow locked my post 😭 how do I even undo this?

[lusty walrus]

Looks well made!

[lusty walrus]

I feel adding some more details to the door could be nice, something like guide rails for the raising mechanism? Also the original unlocking feels a little jarring, I'd try to change that a little personally

[jagged grotto]

Shoot I used to know this, it might be in the model tab

[jagged grotto]

Holy shit

[jagged grotto]

Okay that's awesome

[lusty walrus]

I think it's in the model tab like bulldog said, it's in one of the drop-downs

[lusty walrus]

*Insert imskycc meme of him pointing at a door here*

[safe raptor]

drop downs as in the menu on the right, right?

[lusty walrus]

Fuck, hold on a sec I'm in mobile let me see if I can get what I mean

[safe raptor]

alr dont stress it if you cant

[lusty walrus]

From the Roblox dev fourms

We have changed the toggle in the View tab for bounding boxes into an option dropdown where you can now select a rendering style for your selected objects: outlines, bounding boxes, or both. Apologies for the delay for this update and thank you for your continued feedback!

Should be around there when you open the model tool tab, at the top by default iirc

[lusty walrus]

/
|
This should help some

[safe raptor]

i dont understand am i looking at the model tab or the view tab?

[lusty walrus]

Model tab near the top, where you get the little buttons that say move transform rotate and all that stuff there should be a selection options tab

Alright here

In the view tab

I was incorrect

[safe raptor]

ah ok

i messed with that before and it didnt make any difference

[lusty walrus]

Yeah it confused me at first too

Sounds like the way you select the part, not the outline

[safe raptor]

i have both enabled there

[lusty walrus]

Yeah, just change it to outline to get rid of the bounding box

[safe raptor]

.

istg if i have to make these desks again

@lusty walrus

[lusty walrus]

Are you talking about the mismatched texture?

[safe raptor]

the grey box yes

i cant select it

and its apart of teh original model its under

[lusty walrus]

Qhar? If the grey box is due to your selection, it's just showing the bounding box, you can't click it

If it's part of the model, is it locked?

[carmine flame]

If Im right, Check in studio settings, if you have something checked to show anchored parts

[safe raptor]

nits not selection its there when i dont have it selected

[lusty walrus]

Is the box locked?

[safe raptor]

no

wel lthe model isnt

[lusty walrus]

Dunno man, I'm lost

[safe raptor]

same

[safe raptor]

rahhh thanks!!

and thanks rpd for trying

[carmine flame]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/767015516338388992/1128674756607094804/the_zaza.gif

[lusty walrus]

Ahhh yeah didn't know that setting existed

[carmine flame]

Glad to help

[orchid topaz]

hmm ill try that

[orchid topaz]

i tryed slowing the opening tween to 2 seconds instead of 1 do you think this is better?

[lusty walrus]

Yeah, I think thats better

[naive elm]

progress on the language

[orchid topaz]

i also made this

[tawdry fox]

nice city!

[vestal jackal]

h o w

[ebon bear]

Wdym how

[vestal jackal]

its amazing

[ebon bear]

It called skill

And experience

[tawny flare]

couldntve done it with other people's help bro

it took awhile but

we're here

[jovial thunder]

aint gonna cap that second picture might be one of my most favorite roblox screenshots now

[tawny flare]

we even got the

as youve noticed by now uhhh this is a team project

lmfao

[ebon bear]

Also roblox

Yes this is miniature, from combined arms. Scale is 1 studs

[tawny flare]

why is it so crispy

[ebon bear]

Didcord

Discord

They even have things like this

[tawny flare]

falujah

[kindred kettle]

i know a ca dev

the shit they post behind closed doors is crazy

obviously cant leak any of it though

[kindred kettle]

those who knows

[tawny flare]

😨

[ebon bear]

CA, neo warfare x devs make fun of aeronautica cause their vehicles is less detail

[kindred kettle]

last time i checked they also dont have the diddy monster as one of their former admins too...

[tawny flare]

lmao

[sterile rivet]

may as well put them here
some texturing practice

[kindred kettle]

votv 2

[tawny flare]

how do you make the dish look like tha

[sterile rivet]

in what sense, the texturing?

[jovial thunder]

is this a real reactor or a fictional one?

[gilded cedar]

#1215843243686891520 message lore here

[gilded cedar]

receipt programming language

very cool

[naive elm]

very

[gilded cedar]

i think it needs typechecking now

[naive elm]

there's literally only two types 😭

string and number

if it isn't a number it's considered a string

there are enum checks but they're still considered strings/numbers internally

[gilded cedar]

needs more typechecking

[naive elm]

rahhh

i have enough types!!!!!

i mean i could change the type of this

from number to 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

cause i do have that internally

would look kinda ugly though

crying

[gilded cedar]

perfection

[naive elm]

at least it suggests the values

[tawny flare]

ye

[sterile rivet]

extracted textured from photos i found online, pixelated and dithered them

and then unwrapped those onto the model

[tawny flare]

ohh

i see

[kindred kettle]

cag larp

[surreal vine]

thats probably the coolest thing ive seen here

[kindred kettle]

what an odd revolver...

[sharp apex]

spring loaded revolver

[main tusk]

That revolver looks like it wouldn't work...

Unless it's not using rounds and is like f04 levels of laser weapons, there is no way this could possibly do the thing a firearm does...

-# Like how does ammo get to the barrel when it's this coil thing

[orchid topaz]

gmod gun real

[kindred kettle]

Those who knows...

[orchid topaz]

this clip doesn't do my power system good but whatever

[kindred kettle]

are those 8 sided cylindrs for pipes

[orchid topaz]

yep

[kindred kettle]

what the sigma

[orchid topaz]

i like the way they look

also low poly so

[brazen crag]

omg

tool gun

[orchid topaz]

better video

[kindred kettle]

those who knows

[hoary orchid]

is that the tool gun

[kindred kettle]

I WONDER...

yeah

[ebon bear]

Sexy panel

[tawny flare]

oh noes

[ebon bear]

Mig-31 Skin finished

[tawny flare]

i love mig 31

[ebon bear]

160 decals

[tawny flare]

goddamn

[ebon bear]

Dude lmao

the panel look SOO perfect

[tawny flare]

yeah bro

it looks fucking fire

now do f15...

[ebon bear]

NO SHIT

RUSSIAN BIAS ON TOP

[tawny flare]

200mm artillery cannon thing

and yes it is magfed

dont ask why

[ebon bear]

@tawny flare

[tawny flare]

burn...

[tawny flare]

hm

[orchid topaz]

can it play doom tho?

[kindred kettle]

ye

[orchid topaz]

epic

[orchid topaz]

yo how do you make faded decals like that?

[kindred kettle]

aeroslop 💔

[tawny flare]

i just tap it with a brush lmfao

[orchid topaz]

pluh what brush

[tawny flare]

cement brush in substance painter

[orchid topaz]

i dont got substance painter

rip

[orchid topaz]

that shit is hella expensive

[spark obsidian]

there are free alternitives

[orchid topaz]

like?

[orchid topaz]

i added more detail to the tunnels

fuck wrong image

here

[kindred kettle]

if u used like atleast 12 sided cylinders that would be Awesome

[orchid topaz]

i like the low poly look

also this

[quaint sentinel]

Control room (just for looks since I don't have any documentation/guidance)

@sterile rivet you might be interested

[kindred kettle]

eyeball it

[orchid topaz]

god i fucking love sound design

[ebon bear]

The dummy pose could be better

It just look too uncanny

[quaint sentinel]

that's an old dummy that i placed as a size reference

[carmine bronze]

u should have the fan stop when the power turns off 👍

[orchid topaz]

good idea but i like to think the ventilation system of the facility runs off a different breaker then lighting

[carmine bronze]

I mean yeah I would assume not all the lights are on the same breaker either

[orchid topaz]

The structual safety of the facility is fineeeee dont worryy about itt

[sterile rivet]

I dig it

Great work

[tawny flare]

door

overly detailed compared to the whole build

[rigid notch]

haha cool logo

ha

[ebon bear]

Where is creation

[sterile rivet]

where create

[naive elm]

where

[quick vault]

Joint Special Operations Command

[rigid notch]

BAHHAAHHAAH

[tardy ibex]

wabrams wip

[rigid notch]

wabrams

[tardy ibex]

true

[merry stag]

Is the model good?

[ebon bear]

Make type 10 plwease

[tawny flare]

riverside R^2 cannons and night thing

[tardy ibex]

soon

[naive elm]

cute

[tardy ibex]

true

[kindred kettle]

shading is a little funky but yeah

[surreal vine]

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/studio-solid-modeling-csg-performance-and-robustness-improvements/3256495

[kindred kettle]

csg... SLOOP!!

[ebon bear]

Set the studio quality to 21 please

[tawny flare]

satisfactory fuse sound

[neon obsidian]

haven't posted here in a bit but some area i build for las cherung (may not be finalized, just some test area i wanna build)

[tawny flare]

las cherung

that sounds coo

[orchid topaz]

its just windows recording

[stoic tapir]

Ocean

Doing some realism studies

[hoary orchid]

ooooo that's really neat

what engine?

[stoic tapir]

Roblox?

I think i broke ghast

[hoary orchid]

hate to be that guy but how did you do that

like how do you do the

water reflections

[stoic tapir]

The shadows is a mesh

Water effect at the top is a decal

And just lots of lighting tweaking

[hoary orchid]

ah

[tardy ibex]

wawabrams

[orchid topaz]

Pump

[kindred kettle]

did you eyeball the abrams or something

[tardy ibex]

why

[kindred kettle]

Don't mean to be mean but something is slightly off about it

Still looks good

[tardy ibex]

bro its my first tank 😭

[kindred kettle]

Nah I can hook you up with some good references when I get home

[tardy ibex]

yeah i need references my current blueprint is trash....

[stoic tapir]

I've been watching lots of great videos recently that also help

[pulsar apex]

it looks more like a blower than a pump (for the size of it)
150mm fan jumpscare

[kindred kettle]

@tardy ibex hi iforgot

http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/m1abrams/m1abrams.html

AWESOME WEBSITE

its trustworthy all my modeler friends use it

here is m1a1 if u need that instead

http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/m1abrams/m1abrams.html#M1A1SIDE

[main tusk]

GAMING PUMP 🗣️

WHERES THE RGB

[orchid topaz]

im gonna kill you

[main tusk]

Absolutely not

Thanks for understanding

[tawny flare]

mf

[tardy ibex]

Thx bro

[hoary orchid]

how'd you find the decal

i can't find anything of the sort

[modern maple]

ahitopha relives his childhood in his old village

[ebon bear]

@visual blade The beast that never join any battle

[kindred kettle]

hi... the hull is freaky shaped btw (model not the t34/29 or whatever but the design is very similar) and there is a hatch for crew to exit here as well

[tawny flare]

thats the freakiest shit ive ever seen wtf

[kindred kettle]

yeah

the idler mounts on the thing that sticks out

[kindred kettle]

oh it gets worse btw

wait till u see the hull roof

I'll show u when I get home

[tawny flare]

[mystic pawn]

trusses

[lament heath]

Subnautica player here

this looks

so cool

lol

[orchid topaz]

should i make the cave area accessible?

[kindred kettle]

this hole here is for a ventilator

this isnt an t24/29 but afaik those are built on a basically elongated and uparmored m26 chassis

and upengined as well but

not as important

[mystic pawn]

building

[orchid topaz]

im gonna have to ask for your texture pack

[neon obsidian]

testing my new textures

[orchid topaz]

wait did you make those?

[neon obsidian]

yeah

[orchid topaz]

damm

can i have 🥺

[neon obsidian]

our project as of lately is just me making everything myself (texture and model wise

and unfortunately, my texture materials are not ment for public

[orchid topaz]

ah.

dam

ok

[neon obsidian]

i hope you uh understand tho

[orchid topaz]

thats still cool

[orchid topaz]

i do its fine

also updated startup

[neon obsidian]

nice

[orchid topaz]

thanks

[hushed shell]

I made a lore doc should I send it here

[ebon bear]

You cant send docs link

Ask an admin to do it

[hushed shell]

could I just send the text instead

[hearty yoke]

decided to remake an old model i did for ac23 last year
took some inspiration from a bunch of different models (mostly the qserf laser)
it's meant to supply a bunch of neutrons in a short period of time to do high energy experiments in a particle accelerator

bottom model only has ~100 more parts than the top one. 350 vs 460

[tawny flare]

tonj

[jagged grotto]

Ze Lithium Plasma Reactor

Obviously this is a wip

I gotta go to bed now it's nearly 1 AM and I didn't realize it

[stark dune]

I need the help...```lua
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local zoomed = false
local oldPos
local button = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.TV.CameraButton
local newCFrame = script.Parent
local escToLeave = game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.TextLabel
local cas = game:GetService('ContextActionService')
local ts = game:GetService('TweenService')
local uis = game:GetService('UserInputService')
local ti = TweenInfo.new(2, Enum.EasingStyle.Exponential, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut)

script.Parent.Parent.Event.Event:Connect(function()
zoomed = not zoomed
print(tostring(zoomed))
end)

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
print(tostring(zoomed))
if not zoomed then
workspace.Tv.Event:Fire()
zoomed = true
cas:BindAction("Freeze", function() return Enum.ContextActionResult.Sink end, false, unpack(Enum.PlayerActions:GetEnumItems()))
oldPos = camera.CFrame
ts:Create(escToLeave, ti, {TextTransparency = .9}):Play()
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable
ts:Create(camera, ti, {CFrame = newCFrame.CFrame}):Play()
ts:Create(camera, ti, {DiagonalFieldOfView = 140}):Play()
task.wait(2)
button.Parent.AlwaysOnTop = true
end
end)

uis.InputBegan:Connect(function(key)
if zoomed then
if key.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Space then
workspace.Tv.Event:Fire()
zoomed = false
ts:Create(camera, ti, {FieldOfView = 70}):Play()
ts:Create(escToLeave, ti, {TextTransparency = 1}):Play()
ts:Create(camera, ti, {CFrame = oldPos}):Play()
button.Parent.AlwaysOnTop = false
cas:UnbindAction("Freeze")
task.wait(2)
camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Custom
end
end
end)```This script is supposed to zoom into a screen when you click on the screen... But it's just not working... Nothing prints, I get no errors... Nothing...

I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not working ;-;

[tawny flare]

evangelion transport & restraint platform

7604 tris...

[teal loom]

Trying out UI

[jagged grotto]

Woah that's cool

[burnt salmon]

I am just gonna write my thoughts on this down

• You don't have to "tostring" true/false variables
• Please make your naming of objects, like Events, more clear
• Do not, and really do not, make one-line functions

[ebon bear]

Coupula made in blender

[brazen crag]

the end of eangelion

[tawny flare]

yes

[brazen crag]

nah make it mysterious

[ebon bear]

quite finih

[orchid topaz]

how tf am i gonna do that

[paper falcon]

• Destroy your tweens by creating a custom tween function which destroys the tween once completed otherwise server lag can occur from tweens landing in the dump which only takes up space
  • Example being:

function _Tween(...)
    local t = TS:Create(...)
    t:Play()
    t.Completed:Connect(function()
        t:Destroy()
    end)
end

• As german said don't put code in a single line

Might i first ask what type of UI TV is? Is it a surfaceGUI or smth?

[jagged grotto]

Am I the only person who is gonna spend hours recreating a Dot Matrix Printer from scratch?

this is about 2 hours of work and I'm not near done yet

[paper falcon]

yes

[cursive mulch]

hmm

[jagged grotto]

Okay so I may have gotten a bit carried away and the printer is now 1,728 triangles

but we're just gonna pretend it's 500 and fuck it we ball

wireframe looks cool,

[kindred kettle]

Dude...

[jagged grotto]

there's only gonna be a few in the entire game though

so it should be okay™

I wish I could've put more details in, but if I did it would quite literally probably be 8k tris

or no

more

[hoary orchid]

is that where i think it is

[cursive mulch]

hm?

[hoary orchid]

is that the neco thingy

[cursive mulch]

the booth?

perchance...

[jagged grotto]

yeah I don't think I'm gonna use this printer

that was a royal fucking waste of time...

I honestly don't know what I was thinking, and this is making me realize I really really need to think about things before doing them

cause I just spent 4 hours on this

fuck now I'm burnt out

dammit

[surreal vine]

some advice, the topology could be cleaner in some places

[jagged grotto]

yeah I know

I just, really suck

so I can't make good topology LMAO

you'll find that on a lot of my meshes

[surreal vine]

like a loop cut around here and merging these vertices down the bottom

also filling this in too rather than leaving it into the void

[jagged grotto]

I did dw

[kindred kettle]

dissolve... EVERYTHING!!!

[mystic pawn]

brutalist architecture my beloved

[surreal vine]

brutalist architecture

brutalist architecture but with neon shit

[mystic pawn]

great idea

neon signs x brutalist architecture actually sounds so cool

[surreal vine]

thats just cyberpunk

[kindred kettle]

I LOOOOVVVEEE CONCRETE!

[naive elm]

https://tenor.com/view/breath-of-the-wild-legend-of-zelda-cursed-blender-guardian-gif-25857083

who labelled my gif like that 😭

[kindred kettle]

when u accidently move something by a bone instead of moving it uniformly

[naive elm]

real

[stoic tapir]

MMMM I love this

[cursive mulch]

teehee

[stoic tapir]

the weathering actually actually makes sense

instead of just paint chipping off all the corners and sides

[cursive mulch]

thank god substance painter knows what to do

LOL

[stoic tapir]

Referring to #1300008874539089920

[rotund sparrow]

gahdamn

thats awesome

[kindred kettle]

Lights...

textured..... how?

[burnt salmon]

Okay, two questions: why to you put an underscore where the function name starts and aren't finished tweens collected by Lua's garbage collection?

I used to destroy tweens, but I'm very sure they are garbage collected

[paper falcon]

• Its easier for my autocomplete
• Yes, but even that can cause issues with server integrity

[burnt salmon]

Ah okay

[paper falcon]

like sure they play a very little part in the garbage collection but having too much can still cause problems

[quaint sentinel]

looks cool lava

[tawny flare]

dirt and edge generator...

[naive elm]

roblox's dead instance removal is horrible

example: disconnected players aren't removed

[burnt salmon]

[naive elm]

an optimization technique is to remove a player's character and instance when they leave 💀

[burnt salmon]

Roblox being Roblox wow

[naive elm]

in fact roblox recommends doing this in your games

instead of you know

doing it themselves

[hoary orchid]

wait wtf

it doesn't do that

[naive elm]

nope

[jovial thunder]

aint no way

[hoary orchid]

like the character stays???

[naive elm]

documented here https://create.roblox.com/docs/performance-optimization/improving#common-problems-1

[naive elm]

yup

[hoary orchid]

jesus christ

that's fucking terrible

[covert stag]

i like putting udnerscroes for private/hidden/internal functions lol

[naive elm]

same

all my private fields in classes are prefixed with an underscore and are in camelcase

I do it in every language

except python which requires two

[naive elm]

ts, c#, lua

[hearty yoke]

i would like to demonstrate true horrror.
meet Larry. a model i made in studio that is so unoptimized that it refuses to fully export into blender.
even with half of the pylons on Larry missing, it has 500k tri.
i almost used this in my booth for ac23. it's a real good thing I didn't

the same wireframe in studio for comparison

[hoary nacelle]

Ok please redo that model i beg you

Because holy shit 😭

[hearty yoke]

don't worry i am NEVER putting this in a game

this is the equivalent of a studio zip bomb

[hoary nacelle]

THANK GOD

[hearty yoke]

i imported it into blender to try and optimize the model

but since it isn't loading, i guess i'll have to rebuild the entire thing

[hoary nacelle]

Yeah no you gotta redo it but with a reterence

[hearty yoke]

im also trying to optimize this thing in blender
this is over 75% the total number of tris in the model

[hoary nacelle]

Words cannot express how concerned i am

[hoary nacelle]

At this point if you wanna redo that part of the model, you might wanna make some of the cylinders low poly i guess

[hearty yoke]

no thats the intent

im merging several parts to reduce tri count + bringing the cyls down from 25 sides to like 6

[hoary nacelle]

I see

[hoary orchid]

i don't think ac would have surivved

it was on it's fucking last legs

[last jacinth]

[main tusk]

[naive elm]

protip: don't optimise roblox exports

it's not worth your time

recreating it in blender would be easier

i.e. you could make all the inner rods down to 3-9 sides depending on how far away the player will be

but that would be much harder to do uniformly if you're modifying that mesh

[hearty yoke]

too late, down 28k tris already

[kindred kettle]

only 500k?

[carmine bronze]

Roblox exporter is usually the cause as well lol

Idk if its fixed now

But it used to absolutely screw with models when exporting

[tawny flare]

this is so true

[tawny flare]

the lag in ac23 is insane

[covert stag]

bro the ac24 booths need like polygon limits or something

[tawdry fox]

or

even better

if its too black in wireframe

just slide in an image instead

[paper falcon]

piece of composition i have to make a for a trombone ensemble i play at

[hearty yoke]

don't worry, we're taking some serious measures this year
should perform a lot better

[jagged grotto]

this would work well for warhead

a bit

[kindred kettle]

improved my gyrojet model a bit

more accurate and lower tri count

Neva trust no solidify modifier

[kindred kettle]

somtimes u have to remember u were in the trenches...

[naive elm]

i rember your old models,,,

[kindred kettle]

ohhh

hes an og

[naive elm]

dude we used to talk in bgd

[kindred kettle]

i knew i remembered you

i was certainly something back then

but i had to lock in so

[tawny flare]

HOW DO PEOPLE MAKE GUNS

[vestal jackal]

its simple, they assemble them

[tawny flare]

i meant model

[hearty yoke]

doodles!!

[kindred kettle]

it's hard to explain but much easier to do

you just get enough references

and have just enough experience and

model

[tawny flare]

i see

[kindred kettle]

we all start out making slop so its ok to make bad models

i made this gem like 5 years ago

[mental crypt]

Behelit - unfinished

[brazen crag]

nut.

[tawdry fox]

The wireframe is probably

Oh

god

[main tusk]

Can't be that bad

[vague scarab]

unspoken raisin

[naive elm]

cah 🗣️

[tawdry fox]

special olympics one is fire

[naive elm]

true

[mental crypt]

Its a sculpt and not retopo’d yet so im not worried about wireframe right now

[kindred kettle]

wip!!!

[sterile rivet]

m200 intervention our beloved

[pearl loom]

this would be fun to do a gamenight on

[naive elm]

yeah except it's cah

[pearl loom]

pg 13 mode

[naive elm]

if I add that

everyone is one giant json file

[pearl loom]

json 🔥

[kindred kettle]

yup!

[naive elm]

<div class=primary>
  <div class=element></div>
</div>

<style>
.primary {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;

  .element {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    background: red;
  }
}
</style>

@rain barn

the three lines under primary are what you need

[burnt salmon]

Went to look at this again

What does the "network.handleTween += function(tweenData)" += here do?

[naive elm]

adds a listener

[burnt salmon]

Huh

This still confuses me so much

I wanna now how it works, but I just don't get it

[naive elm]

metatables

they allow you to define operators on a table

[burnt salmon]

THE ARCH ENEMY

I really have to get into metatables

I never had enough motivation though

[carmine bronze]

you can do

local meta = {
  __add = function(table, value)
    -- do something here
  end,
}

or

local meta = {__index=something}

meta.__add = function(table, value)
end,

[burnt salmon]

So "something" is the name of the function?

[carmine bronze]

something would be the standard metatable related stuff if you wanted it to be a class

[burnt salmon]

Uhm

I don't get it

[carmine bronze]

local module = {}
module.__index = module

function module.new()
    local myClass = setmetatable({}, module)
    
    return myClass
end

return module

__index is used to make a "class"

[burnt salmon]

And to create functions, I first have to create a class?

[carmine bronze]

Not necessarily, I just added that because I assumed you would likely use OOP if you wanted to make a network handler. Although its up to you.

[burnt salmon]

Yes, I want to get into OOP

I really need to get into metatables, but they just confuse the hell out of me

[carmine bronze]

Yeah that’s fair

If you would like I can try to find a overview for you

[burnt salmon]

Sure

[carmine bronze]

I would offer to help teach, but I have work after class so

[carmine bronze]

Good overview

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/metatables-told-by-a-guy-obsessed-with-lua/774486?u=parker02311

You can find more on devforum

[burnt salmon]

Thanks, I'll take a look

[covert stag]

metatables my be-hated

[kindred kettle]

hello men it's done

I forgot to post it yesterday

with just 5 years

you too can become like me

[sterile rivet]

Very very nice

[tawny flare]

i texture it..

fuck

i meant

now texture it...

[kindred kettle]

maybe i could get one of my friends to do so

[tawny flare]

let me texture it

:Tr:

trust!!

@kindred kettle i have proposition...

i get

[kindred kettle]

Erm.... No!!!

[tawny flare]

nvm 😔

wait

i have genius idea

i can just make one myself!!!

im such a genius

[hallow wharf]

Random shit I was been doing in blender for minutes and 1 hour :

(Why is it WEBP 😭 )

(also for your concerns, it looks like concept from Jailbreak but I am gonna make some touches for finished product)

[orchid topaz]

holy final minute of meltdown song

[orchid topaz]

show the wire frame

[paper falcon]

[orchid topaz]

i know i know it just sounds fucking amazing

[orchid topaz]

guys did i cook on my shutdown failure thing

[tawdry fox]

does that shutdown choke the reactor

[orchid topaz]

yes

[tawdry fox]

cool

[tawny flare]

me when i oversee the thigmabob

[kindred kettle]

I'm just gonna talk here now

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1268823934229286944/1309682493460578435/blender_zjlYpKszSx.mp4?ex=6742785f&is=674126df&hm=08700edd317752ac3777d5f740039165512aeb248ad6a6400fc60650038f55ec&

@paper falcon

[paper falcon]

might seem like a hassle but could you send me the .blend file

[kindred kettle]

my friend said it's because I have 2 forces acting on the bolt at the same time but when I asked how to fix it he's like. Lol idk goodnight brah

[paper falcon]

so i can fiddle with it a bit

[kindred kettle]

aur

sure but I'm in bed rn

[paper falcon]

dw take your time

[kindred kettle]

nvm it sudennly started to work???

idk how

sorry for bothering you

i love blender sometimes

[paper falcon]

its fine no need to apologize lol

[kindred kettle]

actually i do have one other question

why cant i deform my view model arms? ican only move and rotate them

basically all i cando

[paper falcon]

deform as in stretch the arms or...?

[kindred kettle]

like as in doing anything with the bones

it just doesnt work

like it does, but it doesnt work in the animation at all

[paper falcon]

currently it looks like you're in object mode; bones can be moved in pose mode, as well as the keyframes for each bone

[kindred kettle]

i know what pose mode is but... it does nothing
i want bone to go from one state to another but when i change it, it just overrides the previous state it was in

[kindred kettle]

also how do we add keyframes to each bone?

[paper falcon]

if you want to add a keyframe to all bones at ones, select them all in pose mode and press I in the scene view. It will add a keyframe on that specific frame in the timeline

for a seperate bone its basically the same but just with a single bone ofc

[kindred kettle]

HOLY SHIT.

thank u vro

[paper falcon]

np

[kindred kettle]

its time to start cooking

[tawny flare]

gun

[mental crypt]

It is just a solid colour when it is wireframe

[kindred kettle]

blender doesnt like my cpu

(thats why its dropping frames

first blender animation

[paper falcon]

semi-showcase type of game i started making
this will have a combination of brutalist architecture and very industrial scifi

[orchid topaz]

epic seal?

[paper falcon]

yes and no

this square will be where the passage is

entire thing does not move

[orchid topaz]

aw

dang

still cool tho

keep the good work going

[tawny flare]

how do you make angled stuff look good

i cant even make tilted cylinders without fucking up their origin

[paper falcon]

skill

[tawny flare]

right but any tips

on how to not fuck up the angled part

[paper falcon]

i have no tips to give cause idk how to

I just can make angled stuff like that

[tawny flare]

damn 😔

ok

[tardy ibex]

naw it aint hard at all

😭

whats bro talking abt

[tardy ibex]

how 😭

[tawny flare]

help me vro 😭

[tardy ibex]

what do u want help w

[tawny flare]

how to make tilted geomertry

[tardy ibex]

yeah like what

bro 😭

[tawny flare]

idek where to start

actually no

i think what im struggling at

is making guns

😨

[tardy ibex]

what angled parts do gun have 😭

i mean

if u want help i can help u make smth one day

idc

[tawny flare]

its not really about the angled parts

[tardy ibex]

what abt it

[tawny flare]

its about the geometry of the gun

[tardy ibex]

hm

what do u use to make stuff

studio

?

[tawny flare]

blender..

[kindred kettle]

bro is portal

[kindred kettle]

are you rotating / moving them in edit mode

[tardy ibex]

crazy

[tawny flare]

ye

[shadow orbit]

pose i did based off a goofy stock image i found, feat. @sacred halo (slightly eldritch alt on right)

[sacred halo]

[worn apex]

rock

[sacred halo]

rock

why are the details so good

😭

[kindred kettle]

this fucking sucks (why isnt it working 💔

[jagged grotto]

me when dot matrix

fixed an issue lmao

[kindred kettle]

back to modeling

[ebon bear]

did vololnhan teach you draw

[fading spire]

No

I no longer with him what the fuck

[ebon bear]

oh

i thought

[naive elm]

the silly

you used to model tanks right
or am I thinking of someone else

[burnt salmon]

I'm gonna be honest with you all, Roblox allowing plugins to be sold for real-world money is a bad thing. Prices are so much higher with the same functionality

[naive elm]

higher profit for Roblox

[crystal grail]

I just wanna buy plugins for robux

[surreal vine]

the worse part imo is only being real money and no robux alternatives

[crystal grail]

yes

that makes it awful

[naive elm]

I've legit seen 2k robux plugins before because they "wanted to charge real prices"

[crystal grail]

[burnt salmon]

Do they even take a cut?

[naive elm]

iirc (don't take my word for it) Devs get 100% of the cut

HOWEVER

[naive elm]

this is after credit card fees and tax

Roblox is very likely taking a cut of the mandatory credit card fee

so if the card company is taking 2% of all transactions

Roblox could take around 30% of that

[burnt salmon]

The main issue I have is that plugins go for 3x the normal price now

InCommand was 800 Robux before

Now it's 3000

If you want to convert it to Robux

[naive elm]

this guy is known for making things overpriced

[orchid topaz]

tunnel!!!!

what could i add to thy tunnel?

[gilded cedar]

yeah

I think the main reason they did it is to give more money to developers but like.. that can be done by lowering the robux cut

[burnt salmon]

Yeah...

[teal loom]

atmos was 100 now its 8k

[burnt salmon]

Okay, I've now got into metatables. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions (again) regarding your networking system? It really interests me how it works

[naive elm]

yeah

[burnt salmon]

What are the handlers?

And that basically is just the networking system creating a removeevent?

[naive elm]

that's calling it

[naive elm]

wrong message but

this is creating it

[burnt salmon]

What is the reason you put that you put underscores there?

Are they metamethods?

[naive elm]

those are my convention for private attributes

basically those underscores say "don't use these unless you absolutely have to"

[burnt salmon]

That's actually very smart

[burnt salmon]

I just noticed that you are in the vc

[naive elm]

i am

[burnt salmon]

Do you mind if I move us to another vc, so you don't have to type everything out?

[naive elm]

local event = unet.net()
event:Destroy()

[fleet bobcat]

Does anyone know how to fix this lighting bug with future lighting?

I have no idea how this even happened

it just refuses to light that side

[sharp apex]

is this a pointlight

im guessing it is

[fleet bobcat]

yes

[sharp apex]

does it look the same in-game

[sharp apex]

(if this screenshot was taken in studio)

[fleet bobcat]

Let me check

[fleet bobcat]

Yes

[sharp apex]

hm
i have seen issues like this before but i'm not sure what the fix would be
maybe something to do with the stuff around the light?

[fleet bobcat]

Maybe, i'll try removing it in a moment and see if that fixes it

[fleet bobcat]

Even after removing the things blocking it, it still has weird lighting

[sharp apex]

does it still persist when you delete and add a new pointlight

[fleet bobcat]

Yeah

[lusty walrus]

Make it "intentional"

[fleet bobcat]

Kinda hard

[lusty walrus]

Genuinely tho, idk that's weird

[fleet bobcat]

I've tried everything I can think of and it just refuses to work

[lusty walrus]

Does your cylinder have disabled cast shadows?

Might help

[fleet bobcat]

Still doesn't change it

[lusty walrus]

Hm, is it specific to that location or the light in general

[fleet bobcat]

So far it's only in this location, cause there's a nearby hall where the light is fine

[lusty walrus]

I don't know then, sorry I couldn't help more

[fleet bobcat]

alr

thx for trying to help

[neon obsidian]

i might wonder if its a lighting baking issues
im not sure if its the case so feel free to correct me but i do have a similar instance in my project LC where uh, an area has plenty of light sources or textures that for some reason the engine has a stroke trying to render in the shadows

now im not sure how to go about this to fix it
i suppose you can tinker around the location of that area if possible, try to remake the model to see if that changes but im assuming you did
is that lamp the only thing is affected or any light sources in general causes that?

again not much expert on this, it could be entirely from something else i am not aware of

[tawny flare]

the afrikaan sniper

[fleet bobcat]

So far it's just that light and another in the nearby area, what's really weird though is some in a tunnel literally just a few studs away are perfectly fine

[kindred kettle]

ye

[kindred kettle]

wip...

[main tusk]

Bro thinks he's

[fleet bobcat]

That's really cool

[kindred kettle]

Ohhhh

[tawny flare]

gun