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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814041

Length 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Lua

Tools

ROBLOX

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Mark Kiepe

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Creating GUIs

In this section, we will learn all the cool things about making GUIs. In Chapter 4, Securing Your Game, we already introduced GUIs when we made the team changer. However, we did not make the GUI ourselves back then. So, in this section, we will learn how to make UIs ourselves.

UIs are something we, as players, can interact with. Because players can directly interact with GUIs, this means they are on the client. This is important to remember. Many beginner programmers try to use normal scripts to control aspects of the UI. The worst part is that they somehow manage to get it working. This is an extremely bad practice and should never be done or attempted.

There are multiple types of GUIs. In Chapter 4, Securing Your Game, we saw the usage of ScreenGuis. However, there are two more that we will cover throughout this chapter. Besides ScreenGuis, we will also learn about SurfaceGuis and BillboardGuis. In the next subsection, we will start by looking deeper into ScreenGuis...

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Authors (1)

Mark Kiepe

Mark Kiepe

Mark Kiepe is an experienced Roblox Programmer and Game Designer with over six years of experience. He has contributed to a dozen of successful Roblox games. Besides that, he is the Co-Owner of a Roblox Game Studio called Sarcastic Studios with games such as Pet Store Tycoon and Dream Island. Mark has contributed to more than 150 million play sessions across all games at the time of writing. Mark started as a self-taught programmer on Roblox. What he learned on Roblox helped him in College. He currently attends a University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands, where he studies Software Development.

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