How did YOU learn Scripting

[limpid dawn]

I just started out building on Studio, but i wanna start making things work, and i dont know where to start or how to start, so id like to know how yall did it.

[cobalt minnow]

The documentation on studio is so vast these days it's impossible to miss, start off with robloxs tutorial videos before you even bother experimenting with anything, once you've watched those just keep experimenting or watch YouTube content, a lot of the documentation will leave examples for your benefit etc etc. It takes years of patience and dedication to truly get a grasp so don't expect to understand a lot of it instantly. Good luck.

[light zephyr]

I just watched a vid on making a zombie enemie and kept going from there

[light zephyr]

that and I wanted to make a game inspired by nine sols'

[tawny ore]

I personally started with Brawl Dev's tutorial series, but most of the learning comes from making your own projects. The most important thing is starting extremely small, for example I started by making a calculator and simple games like tic-tac-toe (against an rng bot), and minesweeper. Then from there you can start expanding slowly once you learn stuff.

[scarlet osprey]

I watched some videos of Code coach (its been 4 years and i still started learning scripting yes i know im dumb 😊)

[light zephyr]

or actually just think of something you want to make, break it up and find tutorial for those pieces

[exotic nebula]

https:\lua

[scarlet osprey]

yes

then you can start learning by yourself and make a game out of your knowledge

😊

[light zephyr]

oh, btw im not like some skilled as hek guy, litterally started yesterday lol

[gentle moth]

** You are now Level 3! **

[exotic nebula]

or, hypothetically, learn the language and concepts before actually doing games

[light zephyr]

so me have fresh informations

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[light zephyr]

well that's good in concept but, for me at least, that's really boring and made me quit sooooo many times

[exotic nebula]

you gotta want it

because i guarantee you're not going to come up with a lot of integrated stuff on your own

this field of expertise involves a lot of reading and a lot of comprehension

[cobalt minnow]

i been on roblox since 2012 bruh, you're either motivated and willing to learn or you aren't

there's no bypass or easy method of learning

its a lot of trial and error

[light zephyr]

okay

ik that

[cobalt minnow]

you can jus rescript junk on toolbox its what i started off doing

[light zephyr]

but just starting you can't just say "learn the language

[cobalt minnow]

thats what im saying

[light zephyr]

oh yeah'

[cobalt minnow]

you need to surround yourself with it

[light zephyr]

I totally agree with trhat

[cobalt minnow]

drown in it

if you float, you have the mindset for it

if you struggle too much, then your reaction to that kind of frustration makes or breaks you

like i said

lot of patience

[scarlet osprey]

my laptop almost crashed yummy

[exotic nebula]

it's a 2 to 8 hour read for those who don't know lua

[cobalt minnow]

no it isnt

[gentle moth]

** You are now Level 7! **

[exotic nebula]

https://lua.org/pil

[cobalt minnow]

its years of practicality and understanding the concepts you want to utilise it for

[exotic nebula]

tell me this is not

[cobalt minnow]

to make any use

[exotic nebula]

i'm talking about the language, not cs

[cobalt minnow]

ur jus acting like thats readable in 8 hours and printed to memory

which is unrealistic

and stupid to assume

its 8 hours a day for how many months for it to stick

1 thing at a time

[exotic nebula]

i guess i'm just different

[cobalt minnow]

half of that documentation isnt even useful for beginners

and no you aren't

[exotic nebula]

i'm not?

[cobalt minnow]

cos if u were u wouldnt be yapping ego when im tryna help someone

[light zephyr]

eeehhhh, I'd say use it like a dictionary and reference it as you go, but there's sooo many ways to learn

[exotic nebula]

this is literally my experience

sorry if i hurt your self esteem

holy shit

[cobalt minnow]

ur jus makin the situation incomprehensible for anyone who hasnt spent time in a script tab

that isnt how u learn

[exotic nebula]

not at all

[cobalt minnow]

and i can guarantee you've done next to nothing practical with that knowledge

[exotic nebula]

you pick up a book (the pil)

[cobalt minnow]

other than reinforce already known concepts

[exotic nebula]

huh??

[cobalt minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-bait-ragebait-angry-gon-bait-gif-5270896389597269350

[scarlet osprey]

its peoples ways to learn

chill guys :(

[exotic nebula]

bro is acting like you can't learn the language from a book

[scarlet osprey]

some of us cant some of us can

[cobalt minnow]

make me a jail timer with os.time rn then

somethin basic

[exotic nebula]

jail timer?

[cobalt minnow]

with all ur "knowledge"

[scarlet osprey]

😨

[exotic nebula]

what the fuck is a jail timer

[cobalt minnow]

counts down jail time

❓

[scarlet osprey]

like in jailbreak

[cobalt minnow]

ill allow you to set duration

use os.time

go

[cobalt minnow]

something basic af

[exotic nebula]

why would i use os.time, that's not really practical

just use task.wait :U

[cobalt minnow]

i mean it is

oh

so u use task.wait(500)

and the timer doesnt work

now

we have a 50 player server

constant traffic

thread in full swing

[scarlet osprey]

what is the difference between os.time and task.wait tho?

[exotic nebula]

luau is asynchronous

[cobalt minnow]

all 16 cores roblox uses annihilating the client

[exotic nebula]

literally overexaggerating

[cobalt minnow]

so while u task.wait(600), the timer will display every second of that interval?

exactly

this is what knowing 0 but having a mouth does, try to avoid these guys bruh

this is how u get put off scripting

[exotic nebula]

buddy? you know very well that a loop is required with that busy wait in order to update that shit

[cobalt minnow]

no

it isnt

[exotic nebula]

yes

it is

[cobalt minnow]

or is it

🤔

[exotic nebula]

it is

[cobalt minnow]

so

what u gonna do to track that time

[exotic nebula]

if you think it's not, then you don't know how a computer works

[cobalt minnow]

i give u the hardest part

to utilise

alr

[exotic nebula]

task.wait returns deltatime

[cobalt minnow]

TimeLeft = os.time() + duration

[scarlet osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/381417215003590656/1375307732147765429/IMG_3088.gif

[exotic nebula]

is it as accurate as os.time? probably not, but that doesn't matter

[cobalt minnow]

ur thinking about havin a 1 player baseplate

have you ever actually ran a working game

or do u jus yap on discord all day pretending to know things

[exotic nebula]

concurrency buddy

[cobalt minnow]

@light zephyr ignore this dude, good luck

[exotic nebula]

it's actually insane how much bs you're throwing out rn

[scarlet osprey]

guys

if u good

then fix my problem already

im suffering not knowing what the frick is stopping template from cloning

[exotic nebula]

bro thinks roblox is my old tetris gameboy

[scarlet osprey]

pls 🥹

[light zephyr]

ignor me or comt?

[scarlet osprey]

comt

[cobalt minnow]

ignore comt

[light zephyr]

tbh I just left

[cobalt minnow]

he has 0 clue what hes sayin bruh

[scarlet osprey]

h

[exotic nebula]

i have 7 years of experience and a job IN IT

you CANNOT be serious

[light zephyr]

well some people function differently, like I can't remember where I put my phone like two seconds after using it

[cobalt minnow]

this dude talkin about lua docs

[exotic nebula]

which luau's syntax takes after

[cobalt minnow]

i give him an easy on the spot system anyone with "7 years" of experience would have done

and he fails to mention os library

which lua docs mention more than anything

[exotic nebula]

os library is completely unnecessary

[cobalt minnow]

😭

they literally pride themselves

on os library

kid ur dumb

[exotic nebula]

if you're doing it in lua, then you would probably like to use os.execute("sleep etc.")

[cobalt minnow]

u got 7 years in yap school

[scarlet osprey]

then fix my damn problem

[exotic nebula]

never even went to school for it

[exotic nebula]

which one

[scarlet osprey]

https://discord.com/channels/448986884497211392/1390482702167179265

😊

[exotic nebula]

in any case, the lua manual will give you all you need to know about the language

luau does have type generics and runs on lua 5.1, so there are a few different conventions, namely bit32 as one of many

roblox also has plenty more, but you should get acquainted with the LANGUAGE first (the libraries come next)

[limpid dawn]

Yeah js started with Brawl devs playlist

Yall Need to chill out🥀🙏

[tawny ore]

If you need any small project ideas lmk 🙏

[fringe kernel]

fucked around with free models 8 years ago, wouldnt recommend

[limpid dawn]

Nah js trying things out for now

[gentle moth]

** You are now Level 1! **