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Mastering Roblox Coding

You're reading from   Mastering Roblox Coding The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814041
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Start Programming with Roblox
2. Chapter 1: Getting Up to Speed with Roblox and Luau Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Writing Better Code 4. Chapter 3: Event-Based Programming 5. Part 2: Programming Advanced Systems
6. Chapter 4: Securing Your Game 7. Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Game 8. Chapter 6: Creating User Interfaces for All Devices 9. Chapter 7: Listening to User Input 10. Chapter 8: Building Data Stores 11. Chapter 9: Monetizing Your Game 12. Part 3: Creating Your Own Simulator Game
13. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Simulator Game 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to events

Sometimes, you want something to happen when a particular action is performed. This action can be anything. Let us make an application with one of these actions. Throughout the following sections, we will make a system that changes the color of our character once we jump. But this raises a problem: how do we detect whether someone is jumping?

First things first, we need a reference to a Player instance. But how do we know which players are in-game? Of course, we can make the system for our character. After all, we know our username. But what if someone else is in the game? We somehow need to detect whether someone joins our game because then, we know who is in our game.

In the following section, we will learn how to use functions on instances. After that, we will learn what events are and what they are used for. Additionally, we will learn how to listen to them. Finally, we will learn what to do when we need an event that does not exist.

Functions on...

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