Help. How to actually learn from 0 to scripter

[vital sluice]

** You are now Level 3! **

[simple lotus]

Anyone can give tips or anything I can use

Help. How to actually learn from 0 to scripter

[indigo spade]

I personally pick something that is simple but I don’t quite know how to do. Then when I’m on the part that I don’t know how to do then lookup what your stuck on followed by “roblox” and read some dev posts or roblox documentation.

[simple lotus]

What if I don't know anything litterally 😭

[indigo spade]

Don’t go strait to a big game, just start with mini projects to practice

[indigo spade]

Watch some thedevking videos

Like watch 10 or smth

Learn the basic syntax of lua then refine of specific things

Once you know functions, events, variables, loops, and parameters then you should be ready to do some small projects

Overall watch videos to learn the basics, maybe follow along and expand a bit. Then try to make something you believe you can with the skills you learned and look up anything that you don’t know how to do.

[simple lotus]

So just learn something -> make something you can (if u get stuck google) -> learn more and make something

Is this a good plan?

[indigo spade]

Yeah

I started with watching videos and following along

I garuntee that most scripters here started by watching videos then making many, many small projects.

[simple lotus]

Okay.

Thank you for your advice Stone

[indigo spade]

Anytime Domy

One more thing

There are many good beginner scripting series on YouTube

Try to watch one

[inland dove]

I learned the basics from youtubers like TheDevKing and BrawlDev, then I learned more advanced things from following full system tutorials, looking for stuff I dont know about on the dev forum, and looking through more advanced free model scripts.

[simple lotus]

How can you learn looking at something beyond your level

[indigo spade]

Dev forum is important

[inland dove]

yea

it allows you to learn things more at your own pace

[indigo spade]

Dev forum has beginner devs who had the EXACT same problems that you had

[simple lotus]

Like if I did that at math I would start crying hysterically instantly

[inland dove]

thats like saying "I keep repeating the same thing over and over again why am I not learning new things from doing this"

[simple lotus]

I know but like if your looking at it without explanation

💀

Or do you do research on what u see

Or am I just stupid

[inland dove]

well thats why you need to learn the basics first

[simple lotus]

Fr

[inland dove]

if you know absolutely nothing about code then you wont get anything

[indigo spade]

Say I learned how to change a parts color. Then I can try to make a disco floor using loops.

[inland dove]

but once you get how things are structured you can kind of infer what certain things do just by looking at them

[vital sluice]

** You are now Level 1! **

[simple lotus]

If I get my brains melting in studio I'll just @ you two

[indigo spade]

Feel free

[simple lotus]

I don't want my high ambitions dropping down from a rage quit

[inland dove]

sure 😭

[simple lotus]

All this game making stuff is 🔥

[indigo spade]

I agree

Scripting has a steep learning curve unlike building. We have to put practice and effort in to actually get better.

[thorny kiln]

hm

[simple lotus]

Bro and I want to do like all things. 😭 Scripting, building, animating and vfx

But I think Scripting is hard part

[indigo spade]

Scripting is nessesary and usually gets paid a lot…

[inland dove]

I can script but do nothing else 🤷‍♂️

I cant build for the life of me

not matter what I try

[indigo spade]

Same

I’m somewhat into ui

[simple lotus]

Guys do you know combat worriors

[inland dove]

scripting is something you can learn eventually and not something that you can have a "natural talent" for unlike building for some people

[indigo spade]

ye

Also if you know how to script you can make many types of games. Without knowing how to script you either have to hire someone or make an obby.

[vital sluice]

** You are now Level 8! **

[simple lotus]

Yeah lol

[simple lotus]

Is it true that like roblox Lua just dosent have patterns so like it's much harder to get into than in unity or godot

[indigo spade]

I haven’t heard that personally but it may be true

Roblox lua does have patterns tho

[simple lotus]

Ok

[inland dove]

no..

imo luau is one of the easiest languages to learn

might be just because of how neat and not intimidating it is lol

[indigo spade]

Fr

I love the autofill

C++ sucks

[inland dove]

The only other language I know is python ngl

its what i use to make discord bots

[indigo spade]

Cool

[fickle bloom]

Bold opinion, anyway if yall wanna talk use #💬︱general instead.

And you can either watch tutorials to how to svript, read roblox documentation on scripting and read developer forum

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