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dry yacht
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how can i learn lua easily and start to learn how to add it to modles. please help i really wanna make game. thanks

hot ore
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You should only watch a few episodes at a time and really try to understand and digest what he is saying

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The best way to do this is to take what he shows you then make something fun with it

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Ai can be of use but do not rely on it, I would also recommend getting used to reading documentation

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Alot of the learning process is teaching yourself and learning how to learn

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I would also recommend finding someone who knows way more

crisp solarBOT
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# hot ore Ai can be of use but do not rely on it, I would also recommend getting used to r...

ai is really frowned upon nowadays, but people often don't realize how incredible of a learning tool it is. sometimes, even in coding, it helps go over topics that aren't covered at all on devforum, or at least there are little conversations sparked about it.
ai can give you a great idea and even a script structure on how you'd make the thing you want to make, and you can use that as help for how you should shape your structure, if you deem the script fitting/functioning.
sometimes, it's also decent for debugging too. i wouldn't rely on it though. it's stupid on a lot of hyper specific things which has cost me some huge hours.

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it pretty much helps you just, not have to deal with the painless trial of error, especially if you don't even know what to do or where to begin, because you don't even have an idea of the core structure, methods and the things you even want to have.

it's excellent for learning though.

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i've written several handmade tutorials and guides because of the amount of knowledge and how well ai can explain certain things

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not certainly complex things, but i went over things like metatables for example. you know, little tutorials you write for yourself so you remember.

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tl;dr amazing learning tool, alright programmer, not a good debugger. use it to get an idea of what you want and only use it as a TOOL. don't let it generate shit for you unless there is ZERO documentation on what you're trying to do and you're working with crumbs.

hot ore
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to give you a good example: moon animator api.

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there is ZERO, and i really mean, ZERO, documentation on literally anything.

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the only script that uses some of moon animator's functions is a thing called "Phobos Rotation".

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i fed it to the ai and asked it to fetch some of the _G.MoonGlobal functions and it explained everything properly, and showed me how it works

hot ore
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also fed some properly functioning code which i of course used. but i fixed it up, wrote it by myself and only used it as reference. then i had something working when if i didn't use ai to get an understanding, i would of had nothing. not even a clue. no ideas. no nothing.

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youtube tutorials should be a first though

tight trail
hot ore
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if you feel as though they don't cover the topic well enough, even after looking through devforum posts (for me that was metatables and oop), then look into ai

tight trail
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and some see a lot more practical use than others. it's just how it is fingerguns

hot ore
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And most of the time people use it incorrectly

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Kinda hard to explain it's use without being vague

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I guess one of the pros that I could name would be its tendency to explain in detail

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It usually gives you a detailed and elaborate answer which can clarify alot

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# tight trail what is would that be?

i think he is referring to the fact that a lot of people think that the use of ai is often unprofessional and only shows your lack of skill. not exactly a tool you can use to help yourself in scripting, but generative. shit that just makes what you want on command. like a customer ordering food and having it delivered to them.

even with tools, people still think its scummy and means you're a bad programmer. but using ai to learn, as a tool, is like using a recipe. you have everything laid out in front of you, now you have to make it with your own extra twists and additions to make it how you want it to be. if it tastes good? success! if not, refine it, make it better.

not using any tools, especially on things with scarce documentationing is like looking at what different recipes use. let's say spaghetti. you look at the tomato sauce from the pizza, you look at how to make it saucy from carbonara recipes and such, you look at meatball based recipes and some techniques people use for foods, but you're just stuck because you cannot connect them together. these foods are barely related, and you're only focusing on small parts that might not even work well for your meal

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im a learning chef by the way thats why i used a food example lol

hot ore
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Lol

stable anchor
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i dont use ai for that, but that was a decent example

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my mom teaches me and i use actual recipes

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but like, let's say, chocolate. i make chocolate

tight trail
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and every song is the same 3 chords but slightly different 🤷

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# stable anchor but like, let's say, chocolate. i make chocolate

you wanna know the proportions and the measurements of how much coco butter you wanna have, and how much coco powder you wanna mix in with it. it decides how bitter the chocolate is and how much of it is actually, you know, chocolate.
ai will give you half-right measurements, but not 100% right ones. if you try to make it, it will not work. so you have to make your own changes, use your own head and make it the way you want it to be. maybe it doesn't work, but you try again. the point is, you had a reference point. you had somewhere to start from. if you just tried doing it without any help, you'd screw around a lot more.

dry yacht
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thank you evweryone for your help

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