Help with understanding this code

[molten nymph]

does this part of the script :
local gate = gates:FindFirstChild(button.Name)
correspond to the button that has the same name as the gate?

local mg = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Maingame")
local buttons = mg:WaitForChild("Button")
local gates = mg:WaitForChild("Gate")

local function ab(button, touched)
touched.Value = true
local gate = gates:FindFirstChild(button.Name)
if gate then
gate.Transparency = 0.5
gate.CanCollide = false
end

local duration = button:FindFirstChild("Duration")
local timer = duration.Value    

while timer>0 do
    print(timer)
    task.wait(1)
    timer -= 1        
end
gate.Transparency = 0
gate.CanCollide = true    

touched.Value = false    

end

for _, button in pairs(buttons:GetChildren()) do
button.Touched:Connect(function(otherpart)
local humanoid = otherpart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")
local touched = button:FindFirstChild("Touched")
if humanoid and touched and touched.Value == false then
ab(button, touched)
end
end)
end

[native yoke]

i think you got that backwards.

[molten nymph]

then what is the right understanding of it?

[frigid sandal]

** You are now Level 2! **

[native yoke]

i meant you got that literally backwards. lua local gate = gates:FindFirstChild(button.Name) does this correspond to the button that has the same name as the gate?

gates:find(button.name) so it's looking for a gate with the same name as the button, not what you said. unless you've shoved buttons into the gates folder for whatever reason and deliberately named it gates when it should actually be called buttons

[molten nymph]

ohhh I see

I understand now

Thank you

[grave lark]

When scripter4

[molten nymph]

wait one more question, what is the best way to learn scripting in roblox studio? What are the lessons that I need to cover step by step?

[grave lark]

Youube, roblox documentation, roblx dev forum, etc.

Search a beginner tutorial

Search for one explaining all key words too

[native yoke]

when my roblox game engine is done

[grave lark]

Youre making a game engine insidr a game engine?

[native yoke]

to drive all the stuff i dont want to care about. i heard it called a controller too

[molten nymph]

alright, thanks

[native yoke]

like... datastores, and the 30 concurrent request limit + bunch of other limits

and the badgeservice limit where if you have more than 85 badges you can't query them all at once when a player joins

[grave lark]

Thats specific

[native yoke]

code that deals with analyticsservice etc so i don't have to go chasing stuff out of the docs, i can just do player:dothing and it's all done for me

[grave lark]

Ooooooooohh

Thats very cool

[grave lark]

Btw yk abt the difference between . and : here yh

?

-# player.dothing / player:dothing

[native yoke]

yeah i'm focusing mostly on the stuff in roblox that is definitive, like with the economies you can only have 5 of them https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/AnalyticsService#LogEconomyEvent

[native yoke]

of course

;compile lua lua local t={} t.x=5 t.f=function(self) print(self.x) end t.f(t) t.x=7 t:f() -- identical to t.f(t)

[silk thunder]

Program Output

5
7

.pyrofire | lua | lua-5.4.7 | wandbox.org

[grave lark]

Im gonna dig into this later

[native yoke]

with custom funnels you can only have 10 (plus the onboarding one)