Why Roblox Studio is Confusing For Beginners 

(thanks for the feedback and sorry for the misleading title, I’ll keep a high standard for videos from now on) the ONLY product i sell: linktr.ee/ByteBlox

100% skill issue

personally as a builder, i think that having both brickcolor and color 3 is useful, since when im quickly coloring stuff, i can just use brickcolor and not think about it that much. And if i need some more specific shades, i can use color3 to fine-tune it

Module scripts are CRUCIALLLL to organising massive games RAAAAAAAAA, THIS VIDEO HURTS TO WATCH

I cant belive people are joining a roblox development course runned by this guy.

It seems most of these points are more directed at new developers rather than roblox studio being stupid. Here's me explaining each point. Models: If models automatically welded everything together, that would be extremely frustrating. The only time that would be useful is if you actually wanted the parts to weld together however even then, which parts will be welded to which parts? Imagine whenever you spawn in, your character parts just get randomly welded to each other. It would quite literally, break the character as all the animation would be messed up and you wouldn't be able to make things like character ragdolls. Client -> Server Model: It would be impossible to show the same thing on the client and the server. This is due to replication lag caused by ping. Whenever, the server wants to replicate something to the client, it needs to message the client in order for it to load in that information and vice versa except things on the client are only replicated to the server is the client has network ownership of that instance for example the player's character for obvious security reasons. Also, you not knowing what a server is as a scripter is just an INSANE skill issue. Having to manually save data: Firstly, you don't need leaderstats to save data. Most advanced scripters will store player data in tables or by using oop and create functions to display that data in the leaderstats whenever it is updated. Secondly, what if the player doesn't want the leaderstats to save? Lets say you're playing a fighting game and there is a 1v1 game mode. They give you a leaderstat called lives and it is set to 3. When lives hits 0 you die. If you leave the game and rejoin the ranked game mode, you dont want the lives to save. You want it to be at 3 when you join so if it saved, that would just be annoying to get around. Also please explain to me how roblox autosaving leaderstats would even work??? Brick Color and Color: Brick color is faster to use. Color gives more accurate colours as you can give it hex codes or rgb values or hsv values. If you want to compare 2 colours, it may be easier just to make them brick colors and then compare the brick colors rather than storing rgb values for each color. Also for some historical context, brick color was a thing YEARS before color3 and used to have around 25 colours to choose from in 2009. If they removed this property, it would break a lot of games going back to around 2016. Scripting is hard: Yeah thats just a skill issue lol. Btw secret is used to store API keys for external HTTP requests. Module scripts: Im confused because you called them stupid and then explained why they aren't stupid. But yeah. Module scripts follow the D.R.Y method which stands for Dont Repeat Yourself. Instead of rewriting the same code multiple times, you can just require it from a module script. It reduces time taken and makes bug fixing 10x faster. It also removes incosinstencies in your code. Players and Characters: There's nothing really to say. Thats just a silly mistake made by new developers. Characters are loaded in multiple times. Player loads in once. GUI: Tbf, I too was once a victim of trying to access gui from starterGUI. That's why its important to actually understand what each service is doing rather than just assuming what they do. That's not really a problem with roblox studio. Viewport frames aren't complex at all btw. They require a camera and they will display any instance that is placed inside the viewport frame via the camera's perspective. Offset is the size of the gui in pixels, Scale is the size of the gui in reference to the size of the screen in pixels. Lets say scale is 0.5 along the x axis, it will take up half of the screen. UI layouts are just there to help developers. They make it easier to make different types of gui and the developer is not forced to use any of them. This is kinda worrying Byteblox since you are selling a course when half the things you're saying are wrong. You should try learning studio fully before selling a course since no one needs to pay to learn how to make a variable and print "Hello world".

skill issue honestly, working with game engines is all about working with the weird quirks

every roblox developer can unite together to say: this guy is stupid

You are late to april fools

I kept waiting for him to name real problems, like ROBLOX constantly breaking existing experiences. The only semi-valid point is the lack of documentation around UI scale an offset, but playing around with it tells you pretty much all you need to know.

BrickColor is just a depreciated version of Color. Back in the old days, we only had that. A lot of older games still rely on it to run.

Horrible takes, please try again. Seems like its just a whole advertisement for your course...

of all the things you could have pointed out you chose the dumbest parts that nobody has a problem with lol. I've grown to appreciate Roblox studio as I've developed using it, even moreso now that I've seen Fortnite/Epic's version of it... Which is just a glorified cutdown version of UE with a terrible output window, close to no debugging info, and a convoluted language made specifically for that editor for some reason, which they call "Verse" which just seems like a cutdown version of C#. Also what are you even talking about with the module script??? the fact that you don't even know how people use it suggests to me that you aren't even in a place to criticize Roblox studio to begin with and have likely never actually coded something outside of Roblox, its essentially a library. You define functions that you may need/want to use serverside/clientside (which you can do if you place the modulescript in replicated storage, this is incredibly powerful), as well as defining variables so that you don't need to define the same variable 20 times in separate scripts. Brickcolor also reduces the complexity of vertex colors (the colorwheel is 255x255x255, meaning there can be a total variation of 16 million color variations, compare that to a total of 208 brickcolors), using a more simplified number of colors can help reduce drawcalls/improve batching, not to mention such color palettes are the standard in every creative application... The player character conundrum is another nonissue, Separating the player from the character is incredibly useful for what should be very obvious reasons. Any beginner will immediately grasp the difference and accommodate them in the future very easily, or at least they should. The weld part is just dumb, if you are going to be making any sort of game featuring welds and leveraging the built in physics engine of roblox, you should at least know how to make a simple weld function, tag models using the tagservice, and iterate over those models using this function and the collectionservice. And voila, you have your welds. Granted, Studio should probably have some sort of autoweld feature so that you don't have to do it programmatically, but still, its a trivial issue.

This is either a late April fools joke or someone who doesn't know a single thing about roblox studio

the BrickColor is a remnant of of Roblox's older versions, where it used to be the only colour up until 2017 where they added Color3

This has to be the most frustrating form of Rage Bait I have ever seen. This guy should seriously try to learn code-only engines.

for someone who's tagline is "Fully explaining every bite-sized feature of Roblox Studio," you sure are heavily underqualified to do so. Secrets are very well known in apis, i.e tokens for access and whatnot. you're blabbering about things you could educate yourself on, then teach beginners, which is the entire point of your channel (AND DOCUMENTATION EXISTS FOR THIS REASON). this is awful dude

bro, when you delete part IN YOUR CLIENT it doesn't delete it from SERVER CLIENT. isn't that obvious?

i think my favorite part about models is that they have like 2 different functions to move them, and one way is objectively better than the other

i recreated this model from thunbnial took me far less than 2 hours

Someone got an error they can't fix in their studio so they start raging about how bad the studio is 💀💀

Quite litterally a skill issue. No matter what engine you use, your first time using it will be painful as you need knowledge to know how to use it. Try learning unity, blender, ect and the same issues will occur.

my thoughts on this video 4:48 if client was replicated to every other client, exploits would become even worse. on client you can modify practically anything, but on server you cant. so if you change a value on client ,it wont replicate to server. another choice is that each client can modify the game for every player, basically every client is a server. that can sometimes work but not here. but it's pretty weird how roblox handles clients what are out of sync from server... 8:20 this is due to brickcolor being a legacy thing. if roblox removes it, a lot of old games will break. that's why there are a lot of feature which, today, seem pointless and weird, but in reality it's there just to support older games, like Welds or other things. that's actually one of the problems with roblox: outdated features. when roblox actually removes these legacy features, people go wild, but when roblox doesnt remove them, people still complain. 10:32 yeah i agree with this. all scripts should be like module scripts, where you can export things and import them elsewhere (roblox actually has export keyword but it's only used for types lol). most modern programming languages do that, where each file is basically its own module. but again, if roblox decides to remake scripts, it's gonna be really influential, and possibly break a lot of games, so they probably wont do that. the scripts were introduced a long time ago, and not changed since, so it's obvious that the implementation is gonna be outdated... 12:20 i mean it's a bit confusing but it's the best way to make it: character as physical player and player as the actual player. character holds world data, player holds player data. i dont have much to say here, it's already pretty obvious how they are both tied. and these people who dont differentiate between them, should just read the official roblox guides like cmon.. 13:55 yeah ui is a bit wierd, but it's kinda fine for roblox. the scale and offset thing is done a bit poorly, CSS does it way better with length units, like if you wanna make something 50% of the width of container, just set it to that. roblox already kinda has that but it's not explained in the best way, like when you drag a ui across screen, it sets the offset instead of scale, so you should basically rewrite everything with scales instead of offsets. HTML and CSS doesn't have that problem because you cannot "design" ui like in roblox, you write tags manually and give them position, so you hold a picture of the interface in your head, and make the scale accordingly. it is much harder to master than just dragging elements, but if you did master it, it will be much easier to use later on, then do the same but with draggable elements. so yeah roblox studio sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. most influential thing, which causes almost all problems, is the LEGACY of roblox. it has been up for over a decade, but old things cannot be changed, it will remain the same as it was in 2009. if roblox would want to make the editor a lot more usable, the only thing left to do would be just to REWRITE IT. like remove unnecesary things, make properties less confusing (make it more like unity's components), and overall improve on it. (although even unity has it's own issues with ui, that's pretty funny)

He’s chatting. He’s doing everything in a tedious way. You could just union the three parts so they act as one instead of falling individually.

am i smelling clickbait

do NOT cook again lil bro

literally skill issue, just pure skill issue this engine is pretty good

Bro roblox studio is so fucking easy This is a MASSIVE Skill Issue edit: Oh nevermind he changed the title, now its better :)

Byteblox I’ll oil you up any day of the week, but your points are mid.

alternate title: "why i have no idea what i am doing"

My man got roasted by every single Roblox developer

saying differentiated client and server ran scripts are stupid is a very not nice thing to say to a dev audience

You can unionize the 3 parts if you really want them to be together :/ 👎

This video is just him coping bc he dosent understand roblox studio💀

Why didn’t you just union the parts together? Tsk, tsk, tsk…

and here when I was a kid I thought they just drew every single possible frames for us to play

ByteBlox: Try not to make clickbait ragebait instead of informative roblox videos challenge 💀

Enums are present in every language... yes roblox enums are weird but you gotta live with it.... also an emum is just a name for a number

You can select all parts you want to weld and click weld in the Model Tab...

Folders are just to like organize the stuff in the explorer tab, nothing else, while models allow you to select the entire thing. You can also select folders entirely but its more complicated, you can also select stuff in models aswell but its also kinda complicated. You can attach/weld the parts to make them fall together, aswell as anchoring them to not fall. Also if you're mad about models existing just don't use them, you don't have to use them dawg. IF YOU HATE MODELS STOP USING THEM, THEY ARENT NEEDED!! ALSO TO MAKE MODELS GO INTO MODELS HAVE YOU TRIED ENABLING CANCOLLIDE? ALSO THE SERVER ISNT JUST A OVERVIEW, THE SERVER AFFECTS THE ENTIRE SERVER WHILE THE CLIENT ONLY AFFECT 1 PLAYER. BOTH OF THOSE DONT SHOW THE EXACT INFORMATION? THATS WHY THEY ARE USED, FOR EXAMPLE THERE ARE MULTIPLAYER GAMES WHERE THERES LIKE A PART WHERE YOU HAVE TO FOR EXAMPLE BREAK DOWN A DOOR, NOW YOU COULD ONLY WANT EACH PLAYER TO DO IT THEMSELVES, SO WHEN YOU DO IT ON YOUR CLIENT YOU DID IT BUT YOU DIDNT DO IT FOR OTHERS, STOP COMPLAINING. REMOTE EVENTS (and other events) EXIST FOR A REASON! "YOU HAVE TO MANUALLY SAVE PLAYER'S DATA" BECAUSE YEAH, YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO SAVE SOME THINGS DAWG! CONFUSING? YEAH, ALL GAME ENGINES ARE CONFUSING FOR NEWBIES DAWG!

u gotta be baiting bro 😭😭

so why would the thumbnail take 2 hours?

Everyone is just shitting on this guy and im here for it lmao

*Ahem* Skill Issue

Models do have a scripting functionality: Scaling, LoD, as you mentioned changing the Pivot, collective properties, etc. and are nowhere as similar to a folder, which is a container with absolutely no specific-to-class properties/events/etc. They both have their own use Your second point about Models also makes no sense, server versus client is not a confusing topic and it is easy to understand the difference between the two environments. In Roblox studio, the server and client are ran by the same device "you have to manually save peoples data" - Roblox already makes saving data a piece of cake, except lacking Local data saving. I do not see why one would prefer it being auto-saved vs freedom of saving. While BrickColor presents no much good use, you cannot remember the exact RGB/HEX/etc values except for the basic colors, which is where BrickColor would prevail with its predefined enum. "i do not even know what xpcall is" - provides a custom error handler, "Secret" - API keys. For the rest, i cannot be arsed to continue, thanks.

RU-vid: "roblox is f***ed" Discord: "are you 9?"

Me wondering what happened to unions

uhhh just move the model's primary part to the location and the welded children will move with it, only if the main part is anchored and the others aren't though! also models were created for making characters originally, thats why the moveto property moves it to an empty space in the world closest to that coordinate, also brick color is just preset colors, and color is for more precise values!!! On the scripting side of things, roblox provides users with documentation links inside of your script! just click the learn more button on a line of code, and it'll give you an in-depth description of it

There is a way to disable the AI code assist: FILE > Studio Settings > Script Editor > Code Assist > Enable Code-Assist

why are you complaining about stuff that you are using wrong lol

reason why folders are superior to models > you can select each object individually reason why models are superior to folders > you can use pivots and streaming

Anchor has left the chat*

4:04 you realize that :pivotTo() exist right? like, moveTo() fits it where ever it can with out colliding, pivotTo() will place it exactly in there

if you dont know something…. just look it up or learn it yourself

The first one sounds kinda nonsense, since if folders were not a thing then you'd had to store values, scripts, etc a in model, but model is more like a storage for parts since you can move them, put a humanoid in there (probably wouldn't work with a folder) and other cool features

byteblox Roblox studio is an unique game engine and taught me a lot whenever I encounter a problem I program or find a plugin I dont see the problem

I'm assuming that BrickColor and Color are two different things because in the early days of roblox they didn't know how to make the color accept both an array of three ints and a string, so they just made those two different things that will be roughly equal to each other. then they just didn't change it because "eh, if it works it works"

you can just union parts..

Naw dramatization for all of the things you mentioned in the video. Why are you complaining about the Brick Color property ?

..... ...... ..... brother. if u want to merge 3 parts, you might just... *U N I O N* select, rightclick, click union, bam. or if ur better u use the shortcut for unioning a model is a *group* of parts not a *union* of parts. its literally just another kind of folder. new folks find this out early most of the time by just experimenting. although meshes are a diff topic since u cant union those unsure abt this part but- 6:30 also im sure this is because roblox is just picky with names in their scripts, the model you had deleted was actually Model, so finding it is "Workspace.Model" the other model is called "TheOiriginalLamp" so its path is "workspace.TheOriginalLamp" but that will actually be hard for beginners to find out im sure. this is all i had to say, though. edit: personally, i import stuff i make in blender to roblox which can still be a pain

the thing about models and the color thing i do understand and roblox does have a lot of dumb bs but client and serverside is very important for a variety of features and is the only way to prevent cheats plus if you know how to work with it its really easy. things like cframes and module scripts can be anoying but the ease at which you can implement multiplayer interactions and control server and client is so powerful and honestly such a blessing

I think Module Script is just for a matter of organisation.

ByteBlox, you should do your research before making a video yapping about things you obviously don't seem to know and making it seem like "oh it's hard for beginners". Nah man, it's obvious you claim that just because it's hard for YOU, but you make it seem like no one is able to understand that, just because you can't, and you have yet to make a valid point. There's better ways to get views and comments, you know? Please, stop making false claims, and it's not hard to understand why, for example, module scripts are ACTUALLY useful in projects, and why leaderstats should NOT save automatically.

I am a Godot developer, and have used Unity for a while this is just basic game engine behavior.

you did not just weld constraint parts one by one instead of unioning, did you.

There is also the problem where animations look different on server and on client TimePosition and Looped properties don't always replicate to the server for some reason 🗿

Pov: you gave up on a game

Hey i was wondering this is your second time mentioning a beginner tutorial with coroutines in it, could you send the tutorial that you were watching

"Models" are basically like folders in Roblox Studio except if you select it, it will move the stuff that's inside it along with it. It has a pivot by itself. Not to mention you need to ANCHOR the parts if they keep falling.

1:29 krill issue, a very fishy video indeed

The ratio here is brutal

1:21 question: the options "Collisions" and "Join Surfaces" aren't enabled by default anymore? It's not like I'm buying a new pc just to answer that

now, the reason as to why you need to use a module script and cant just access the script's contents while playing is just as clear as Secret's description:

SKILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ISSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE

what a gigantic waste of my time

models not automatically welding is extremely important, and you do not need to manually add welds you're supposed to use a plugin which makes it a breeze

for the first part (falling blocks): you can just rig the parts together. its very easy takes less than a minute (optional but i use it) for the second part (parts not being were you scripted them to be): you can turn off CanCollide and it (might) work. sometimes it is annoying but im sure there are other better solutions which i dont know for, maybe try turning off CanQuery, CanTouch and etc. for the third part (server/client based): you selected the client view, right? that works the same as the client/player scripts, which means that whatever happens just to a single player wont transfer to the entire server. but lets say you delete a part from the server view, then whenever a new player joins the game, that (would) be how the game would look, but changes made on client view/play only affects the client. for the fourth part (data saving): i'm not 100% sure since i dont know much about data saving and stuff, but from what ive seen, it is very annoying. for the fifth part (colors): it is actually a good idea. if you want basic colors, you use BrickColor, but if you want complex colors, you use Color. It can definitely mess up newer people, but overall its a good idea. for the sixth part (messy scripts): i agree, they are mostly useless. But in some rare occasions you might need some of them. everything else: im way to dumb to understand. i know you are skilled with roblox studio, way more than me but i just wanted give my opinion on some stuff :)

If u browsed for 1 hour you would know more than just yapping

gogo gaga

about the models one YOU CAN JUST TOGGLE THE ANCHORED PROPERTIES ON THE PARTS

as someone who loves using roblox studio, i dont get what’s so hard about

skill issue brudda. Aint nothing wrong with this engine. Nuance is a good thing

Literally skill issue If you don't like roblox studio then dont use it

The server side and client side thing is actually pretty useful, it makes it so that exploiters can't do match to break the game itself because lets say they got btools, when they delete something or move something, it only moves it on client side so it only effects them so they can't do things like destroy the map.

You can move everything in the model with out selecting all the parts in it, only selecting the model it self

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you can go into MODEL tab then add constraint, click the arrow, select weld and then select 2 parts you want to be welded. It's way easier

what is the background music you use at the start edit: the one at 0:15

pros of 2008 studio: -simpler interface -more intuitive -less tech nerd jank (ie. doesnt use jank like "AssemblyLinearVelocity". like wtf does that even mean) -has surfaces -no AI -only uses BrickColor -better shadows

one more struggle is moving guis in order like if its overlapping and i want it to be behind a gui i cnat event like move it in explorer

I agree that roblox is a stupid engine but this is in no world why-

models not welding everything is kinda need for roblox animatronics that run off physics. like, i dont want everying welded at the same time, and putting everything in a folder doesnt really allow me to save it.

To be fair I can see how these things would be confusing to a newcomer. I have tried to convince new people that studio is extremely easy to use and learn. Since the first day I got on to roblox 14 years ago I was in studio, so everything seemed like second nature fairly fast. if you experience a lot of roblox without ever being in studio, you're bound to be pretty overwhelmed unfortunately. I also was there every day to witness it change so the weird inconsistencies just make sense to me. Lol I remember the very day they added part.Color.

3:56 well yeah it has been in that position, but since its cancolide true, it will be anchored above

secrets is just a table that allows for adding api keys for http requests, cant be printed and can only be used in http requests

This is actually true for me lol (I genuinely wonder why tf roblox makes parts unlocked so they always fall)

models are basically objects to organize stuff better so you can find objects faster

I saw usage of module scripts is thing that u can access them between games, like "require(id)"

I see what you mean at 4:20 For anyone wondering why you can't just delete parts on the client and it replicate is because of a game property named FilteringEnabled. This was made a thing only because exploiters would take advantage of the client to server replication. There are some exceptions to FE (such as modifying the speed and/or moving your own character), but other than that most things are controlled by it. This also has broken many games in the past, esp very old games that rely on client-server replication.

just to say models have another function called setPrimaryPartCframe which is basically moveto but better