How should I be learning scripting?

[rose galleon]

Someone told me that not watching tutorials was wrong and I’m just copying not learning if I’m asking for help from other people what do I do?

[buoyant tendon]

http://wiki.roblox.com

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals

[rose galleon]

im using the documentation

if thats what ur saying

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CwiW2qUCJMQ

i want to make something cool like this

when i ask for help just because i forget that i made a small little error like

')'

they say im copying

[rose galleon]

@buoyant tendon pyro

i want to better understand modules

can i use remotevents along with modules?

[broken arrow]

Documentation is kinda eh, i recommend experimenting with things you learn in tutorials, like if you learn how to move a part, try to move it in a certain way, if you learn how to color objects, try to make a rainbow object, just experiment with things.

[broken arrow]

what do you mean by that

[rose galleon]

I want to make a dialogue system

[rose galleon]

It rlly bringed me down

K

[broken arrow]

a

[broken arrow]

but like, how do you want to use the remotevent and modules?

[split wren]

if you're fine with reading (and or learn well with reading) use the documentation: http://wiki.roblox.com/

if you prefer video tutorials then check these out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYwRdCukZA&list=PLhieaQmOk7nIfMZ1UmvKGPrwuwQVwAvFa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoVYIZYKPOI&list=PLhieaQmOk7nIoGnFoACf33M3o0BOqB38a

[rose galleon]

saw them in a dialogue script

for mouse button down

i think

[rose galleon]

can i use mousebuttondown for input

[broken arrow]

I mostly use UserInputService

Like Input.UserInputService == Enum.UserInputService.Mousetype

Like mousebutton1

[rose galleon]

k

what are remote events for

[broken arrow]

a

@rose galleon

[broken arrow]

lets say, you have a client script, and the client is called "Sylis", and you want to tell the server that the client got a coin or something, you would do it like this,

-- Client Script

local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
RemoteEvent:FireServer("Got a Coin") -- This tells the server, what player fired this remote event, and the args, in this case: "Got a Coin"

-- Server Script

local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player, Args)
  print(Player, Args)  -- Prints "Sylis Got a Coin"
end)

you can use this to relay any information you want.

also a thing you can do with functions,

local function ShowCase(Something, Something2, ...)
  print(Something,Something2, ...)
end

ShowCase("A", "b", "C", "D4") -- will print A b {"C", "D4"}

local function ShowCaseTwo(Something, Something2, ...)
  local Something3, Something4 = table.unpack(...)
  print(Something1, Something2, Something3, Something4)
end

ShowCaseTwo("A" "b" "CDDD" "Y") -- will print A b CDDD Y

-- "..." is basically a list that stores everything else.

[rose galleon]

Oh

so it tells the player

k

[broken arrow]

OR

it tells the server

[rose galleon]

should i restrat this dialogue system

restart

[broken arrow]

if you do Event:FireServer(args) it gives the server the player and the args

lemme check

[rose galleon]

when i press the button to end the dialogue system

someone said to use modules as it's cleaner

[rose galleon]

what is table.unpack

[broken arrow]

so

lets say you have a list which you know will have 3 values, and you want to unpack those values into variables, you would do it like this

local Var1, Var2, Var3 = table.unpack({"A","B","C"})
print(Var1, Var2, Var3) -- A B C

you can also add as many variables, even if the table doesnt have that much, BUT you do need to check if the variable == nil because it can mess up things

local Var1, Var2, Var3, Var4, Var5 = table.unpack({"A", "B"})
print(Var1, Var2, Var3, Var4, Var5) -- A B nil nil nil

[broken arrow]

yeah id use modules for this

[rose galleon]

k

[broken arrow]

store the text and the num value in them, and then write the text from them, so you can easily edit the text

[rose galleon]

ok

i want them to have mouse button down