pls help
#nvm i got help
verbal hazel
Lvl 5
analog apex
ok im level 5 now
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your recording is fucked ://
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just take a screenshot of the explorer
and properties list
though i dont think you need to screenshot properties
just the explorer
analog apex
would it be stupid for me to ask what's the explorer
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the thing which has all of your objects
in a list
the window is titled Explorer
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that's an interesting way of doing it
basically, on roblox ScreenGui is used to display gui ya but usually you only have One screengui object
analog apex
oh
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it's like a "root node" or whatever idfk what that means
just sounds cooler
and like
inside of it you place Frames and TextButtons and whatnot
analog apex
so being less organized is better for gui?
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and then you mess around with their Visible property
if they have any descendants (or children) then they will become invisible together with the parent
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so being less organized is better for gui?
no it would still be organised just in a different way
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i.e.
if i want to make the battleframe visible when a battle starts, i just set it's visible property to true
all other frames that are children/descendants to it will become visible together with it, if they arent already set to be invisible
blah blah blah words
just mess around with it, you will figure it out eventually
analog apex
wait does only the stuff inside the frame become visible
analog apex
k
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no battle frame Visible
with battle frame Visible
using one of my games as an example
all of the stuff that appears are the frames inside of the battle frame in the explorer
the reason why you dont Visually see the battle frame itself is cuz i made it's background transparency 1
(the blue border is just the selection border so ignore it)
analog apex
wait so is there something im doing wrong here
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the gui left click path is wrong
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yay it works
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YAAAAY!!!!
analog apex
ok one more question
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im all ear muahaha
analog apex
when you make a variable does it start out at 0?
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when you make a variable does it start out at 0?
when you make a variable it starts out with the datatype String which is empty
analog apex
i see
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well if you use the set variable block ofc
if you use the output of action blocks or whatever else then it's a datatype that this block outputs
you can see what type it is by right clicking on the block in the selection list thing
hold on
analog apex
is there a way to set a variable to a number whenever the player joins
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i.e.
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is there a way to set a variable to a number whenever the player joins
yuup
have you tried using stuff like scratch before
analog apex
yeah
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cuz that line of thinking and/or knowledge will be useful here
analog apex
i made a full game in scratcg
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you know cap blocks?
analog apex
no lmao
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like the ones that are at the start of a script in scratch
like the orange ones
When Green Flag is Clicked
analog apex
ohh
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they are called cap blocks
analog apex
huh
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retrostudio (and roblox by extension) has a similar thing but it's a LOT more dynamic
they are called Events
analog apex
yea i figured that part out
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you can either connect or disconnect an event, and an event fires when a specific game condition happens
connecting an event makes it work and stay in memory disconnecting an event makes it stop working and using up memory
there's a block called Player Added, this event block fires whenever a new player joins the server
analog apex
is it every player
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there's also a block called Player Removing
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is it every player
ya
absolutely every player
when they join this specific server
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shoot
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the event block fires
if they respawn that event block wont fire
cuz that's their character respawning, not the player
analog apex
can i used a get properties thing to make it only when that player joins
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on roblox the Player and the Player Character are two different instances basically
the Player joins a server once and stays there until they leave the game completely
a Player Character can respawn and be destroyed/die
so dont worry about it
just use the player added block and everything gonna be awesome
analog apex
i just want a way to make my variable start out as the same number every time you join
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i was gonna make the same button for the shop that opens the shop also close it with variables to detect if its open or not
analog apex
wut
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ok so in short
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remember
how i told you
that roblox clones everything inside of startergui
into player's own playergui folder
analog apex
yes
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it also gets completely cleared out when their player character dies
so every time the player character respawns the gui gets "regenerated" to it's original state
so you dont even need to reset anything
it will reset by itself
so all you need to do is set a variable
preferrably a bool variable cuz it can only have 2 states - true or false
and it's really easy to make something like a toggle button using that
analog apex
bool can have variables?
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the variable
can have a bool
here's a list of everything a variable can represent
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bool can have variables?
Bool is a boolean datatype that can only be either True or False
BrickColor is an enum datatype that holds a list of brick colours
Color3 is a three value datatype that can be in the range from 0 to 255 for each (or if you wanna go deeper, from 0 to 1)
Nil is an empty datatype that essentially means "doesnt exist" or "gone"
Number is a floating point number datatype (aka just a number but it can also be a decimal like 0.4 or 1.2832328)
Object is a datatype that points towards an object in the game (aka a path)
UDim2 is a special datatype exclusive to gui objects which describes proportional scale and offset in pixels for two coordinates (blah blah blah basically the thing you use for size and position in gui)
Vector2 is a two value datatype which represents a vector in a 2d coordinate system (X and Y)
Vector3 is a three value datatpe which represents a vector in a 3d coordinate system (X, Y and Z)
yaaaay
analog apex
woah
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you could read all of this on the official roblox documentation btw
analog apex
wha
analog apex
yea
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tell me
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now think about it
you press on the button
the show open variable is false
it sets the gui to visible and then sets it to true
then it checks if it's true
analog apex
what does the red dot do
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it is true
and so it sets it's visible back to false
and the variable back to false
you literally just did nothing
analog apex
if i used that would it work
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yea, for a start at least
though
it still wont work
cuz you know what
You didnt specify a variable in the if statement
you just wrote that if a string saying "StoreOpen" is equal to boolean false then this thing happens
it obviously wont be equal to the boolean cuz it's a whole different datatype
you forgot to tick this little button here
Use Variable
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also it still wont work even after all that
analog apex
didnt you say a variable starts out as nothing
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cuz you just asked it to compare a variable that Doesnt fucking exist
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didnt you say a variable starts out as nothing
Exactlyy
unless you specify the variable's value it will always be represented as Nil
and if you try to compare a Nil variable to something it just wont work
analog apex
is there a if variable = nil feature ;-;
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you need to set the variable to something
before the gui left click event connects
analog apex
wait you dont need a action to set a variable?
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it only connects when the script arrives to it's position inb a line
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wait you dont need a action to set a variable?
nono you got that right
analog apex
WHAT
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i was just using comment blocks to make it faster
this is correct, the only things wrong are the if statements and the lack of a set variable block before gui left click
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btw you can do this literally in a single if statement LMAO
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aura aura
You are smart and prolific in this, with enough practice you will be able to make a bunch of really cool and complex stuffs
only if you wish to ofc
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AURA
analog apex
i'll probably be back here
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im working on a game similar to bear but it's more like
a hide and seek thing. a fnaf themed hide and seek
analog apex
can you rate the lobby that i totally didnt steal from bear at all rq
i just want opinions on it
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can you rate the lobby that i totally didnt steal from bear at all rq
send a full screenshot in retro chat it fits there
i will tell my praises there
analog apex
nvm i got help